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What the UK has going for it is that its population speaks the technology and science lingua franca, by default.

• blakblakarak 3y ago
  As does most of the educated populations of rEurope and India etc - I’m an English dev working in the EU and the fact that I speak English is of no real advantage over my peers.
  • mkoubaa 3y ago
    Yeah but the fact that you didn't have to learn English the same way they did to get to the point that you are now _was_ an advantage
  • oaiey 3y ago
    Publishing in Science is a definitely harder if you not only have to juggle the science but also the English sentence structure.
• throwaway72762 3y ago
  Yes, this. The UK has been subsidized for several decades by the dominance of the US and as a result English. Just as Canada and others in the Anglosphere.