TITLE: A Very Good Reason to Leave Your Home and Move to a New Country
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: July 05, 2019 12:40 PM
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 He applied to switch his major from mathematics to computer
 science, but the authorities forbade it.  "That is what
 tipped me to accept the idea that perhaps Russia is not the
 best place for me," he says.  "When they wouldn't allow me
 to study computer science."
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 -- Sergey Aleynikov, as told to Michael Lewis and reported in
 Chapter 5 of <EM>Flash Boys</EM>.
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