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I never said all education should produce something of monetary value. There are many non-monetary value things that can nonetheless be measured. You keep talking about how things …

I've given you my arguments, but you don't like them. And all your arguments are 'things have been done this way for centuries, let's keep the status quo as it is' and 'you cannot …

> Number of papers published or number of citations isn't a measure of the value of someone's research. This over-reliance on metrics is a big part of what's going wrong with acade…

Which value and recognition are you talking about? Their papers are almost never cited [0]. Soldiers, and defense in general, are part of the main things a government should provid…

My questions are not rhetorical, so you could answer them. Money has to come from somewhere. If your answer is subsidies, then decide either to increase taxation or to cut funding …

> The success of this basic research feeds back into society with substantially increased tax revenue and reputation to attract the best minds in the world. I would love to see a s…

You are using one Oxford college as an example, that is not representative at all. Most universities have very little (if not null) prestige associated to them. If you will only re…

That might be the case. But universities are not startups. In one of the universities I worked at they had a four-year long History undergraduate degree. Between 5 and 10 students …

I'm surprised how very few departments within most universities actually make money. If you had a company where most products lost money you would stop producing them. Universities…

Thanks! I've read that site before, but it is not recommended for absolute beginners. I know a bit of programming, but I never had a formal education in Computer Science (I'm an Ec…

If you had all the time in the world, how would learn Computer Science? Some people have recommended SICP, while others tell me to avoid it as a beginner. I have a lot of free time…

> I put "rapidly" in quotes up there because if I have one piece of advice to PhD students, it's to get the hell out of grad school as soon as you can. Like the parent, I had fun e…

I have a PhD from a top Econ department in the US (I finished it a couple of decades ago, so things might have changed). Of course a PhD is not the best decision if you are only lo…

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You are comparing nominal GDPs, not really useful. If you compare PPP, Russia is almost 50% higher than China... This estimates are for 2021, would like to see what they are now. T…