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But without the 80%, how would the 20% exist?
by pryelluw 1y ago
But without the 80%, how would the 20% exist?
- hobs 1y agoAnd more specifically, if you knew which science to fund ahead of time we'd never have anything but 100% successes, science is often random and huge parts of it are not obviously useful ahead of time, some of which later becomes enormously useful.
- unsupp0rted 1y agoConversely, without the 80% the 20% might be unencumbered. Imagine 2 Earths : one with 10 million researchers and the other with 2 million, but the latter is so cut-throat that the 2 million are Science Spartans.
- ceejayoz 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_hegemony > Due to their mistrust of others, Spartans discouraged the creation of records about their internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. A good example, but perhaps not the point you wanted to make.
- unsupp0rted 1y agoEither way the word "spartan" now connotes an aversion to cruft