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by nuz 616 days ago
Makes me think CERN has too much money
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jajko 616 days ago
Nope too little, this 1000x rather than 1% optimization and data collection on ad preferences of tech giants.

CERN's side projects gave us WWW for example, so you could write your comment.

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polotics 616 days ago
Projects get funding just like at any other public-funded science institutions: with a lot of scrutiny and advocacy, if you think these 153'000 CHF ($178'000):

https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/kt-fund/projects/novel...

...is too much money, then I'm glad: you probably don't have cancer!

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