jacekm
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
I wonder if it's a cultural thing. I live in Poland, here we ask for second, third and sometimes more opinions in cases far more trivial then cancer. We do this before any kind of surgical procedure, painful treatment, anything that could be even unpleasant. I saved myself from a couple of root canal treatments just by consulting different dentists. We don't trust doctors at all.
I don't think they were overcome. As far as I remember Google couldn't make the books available so they abandoned the project. They possess the scans (if they didn't delete them) but they won't be made public.
In some countries they do, in some they don't, in others every PhD student even gets a scholarship. Every person I know who did the PhD did it because they loved the topics they were studying. The author of the blogpost is from Russia, I bet he didn't have to pay for his PhD.
Currently: Lead QA Engineer at VML (after series of rebrandings Cognifide -> Wunderman Thompson -> VML) Poznań, Poland (Feb 2017-present)
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Education: website: https://maciejewski.eu[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jacek; my proof: https://keybase.io/jacek/sigs/3XArjWFBqBHtwB0NujKq9C9x-t4hAmLa9ntXBFHMCsM ]