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A poor guy comes here to spill his guts about potentially losing his job and all the serious science that will be stalled, and you thought his desperation was f
by lvs 10y ago
A poor guy comes here to spill his guts about potentially losing his job and all the serious science that will be stalled, and you thought his desperation was for pointers on how to be more persuasive? Yeah, the HN advice culture has really jumped the shark with this one. This isn't a reality show.
- mistermann 10y agoI think it was perfectly relevant considering "We've been running in continuing resolutions so long we've effectively been losing funding at the rate of 2%/year".
- batbomb 10y agoThat has nothing to do with what the labs are or are not doing and everything to do with gridlock in D.C.
- mistermann 10y agoUnless they were doing really interesting things that captured the hearts and minds of the public who then therefore demanded funding increases.
- lvs 10y agoGosh. You're really not getting it. They're not losing funding because of anything specific to their research (yet). Congress passed only a single budget covering the whole government in the last 8 years! They're only keeping the government funded by continuing resolutions that keep all allocations flat-line. The drop in funding he's talking about is from inflation when the budget is flat year-over-year.