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aeternum on Aug 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patrick Collison's Questions

I definitely had a few classes in which the professor wrote the text-book which while impressive in some ways also yields a conflict of interest.

analog31 on Aug 24, 2020 [–]

Oddly enough, one of my professors wrote textbooks for his classes that he gave to us for the cost of copying them. He was outraged by the price of textbooks.

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