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by karma_vaccum123 3582 days ago
This feels like the type of operation better suited for a tier-one educational institution like Stanford or MIT.

In a academic context, there is no subtext of creating products. Yeah, churning out papers is as contrived...but I still feel like the timelines in academia are more generous.

Google talks a good press event, highlighting their embrace of failure, their desire to take on crazy moonshots etc...but its all in the context of quarterly reports. Something has to give.