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·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Essential context: Seymour Hersh is a big deal.

"Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh
kaffee
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
For anyone scratching their head, I suspect "Brooks" == Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Brooks Jr.
kaffee
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Ben Thompson nails it, as usual:

"The brilliance of paying on a subscription basis is that a company can buy exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and no more."

From https://stratechery.com/2019/microsoft-slack-zoom-and-the-sa...

He's written about this in other posts too.
kaffee
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
>> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector.

> My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my research and the type of work I was proposing.

I don't see the private sector funding ethnomusicology, philosophy, ecology, social history, ...