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FWIW I program my CNC with Haskell, how's that for academic

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• 1letterunixname 4y ago
  Unfortunately, it's nothing new. America's mainstream historical ethos derives from a deep anti-intellectual sentiment of an expat merchant class who frowned upon academia and the Old World. The Puritans at least left a positive legacy in Boston, despite generally shunning ideas and people who dared to think differently. The American frontier acted as a risk tolerance filter of peoples from around the world to emigrate. There are systemic problems of economic and policing inequality, and under-socialism in the US. How does America receive those from distant lands now? What future does America have without prestigious, selective academic institutions except a brain drain exodus?
  • quchen 4y ago
    That’s a very interesting take on things I haven’t heard before, but it seems plausible! Thanks for the insight :-)