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		dumbfoundded on July 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university I can't speak for Stanford but MIT is extremely closely tied with the federal government. The Lincoln Lab for instance gets ~$1B/year from the Defense Department. The only reason MIT became a well known institution at all is because of its ties to the military.

selfishgene on July 22, 2020 [–]

MIT became a rich institution because of its ties to the military.

Lincoln Laboratory is often called a "PhD graveyard" for good reason: it's where reject academics who were denied tenure go to die.

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