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My impression: the re-aristocratization of scientific research seems inevitable.

• epolanski 27d ago
  What do you mean? In any case mathematics is humanity's oldest open source project going on for millenia, it never belonged to a single country, institution or class.
  • bsenftner 27d ago
    Only the idle and curious rich
    • shmoil 27d ago
      Ramanujan was dirt poor.
      • bsenftner 27d ago
        Ramanujan was a phenomenon
      • dgellow 27d ago
        How many Ramanujan didn’t get the same opportunity to show their work to what was considered the intelligentsia of that time?
        • epolanski 27d ago
          Irrelevant in 2026, you can share your results with a click.
• mrngld 27d ago
  Your local trailer park was never going to be able to afford sponsoring high energy particle physics experiments projects that hollow out a mountain and use up a ton of xenon to try to detect a stray particle. High end science has required deep pockets for a long time. But given the cost of a college textbook this is a pretty silly complaint to lobby against a subscription that's $200 a month, in the context of the cost of a variety of other materials and tools out there. (If you think that's expensive you've clearly been lucky enough to never have to deal with commercial software costs) Also not sure how quickly this stuff uses up limits; $100 or even $20 subs might be enough for students. And if a student is scrappy and figures out that Luna can meet their needs then I'd imagine Luna is effectively unlimited on some of these subs. Luna Max scores pretty high.
  • igleria 27d ago
    > Your local trailer park was never going to be able to afford sponsoring high energy taxes.
• analog31 27d ago
  Even in the past a lot of “aristocrats” had to earn a living. Among scholars, many worked as teachers or had sinecures that paid the bills, or held clergy posts with minimal responsibilities. Aristocrats were a dime a dozen.