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Availability of the Government of the United States
- somebodythere 8y agoCan we also have little dots that show which services are currently impacted by the outage?
- shogun21 8y agoI would like a US government statuspage.
- excalibur 8y agoI'd be happy just to see it listed on downdetector.com
- vertexFarm 8y agoHa just for funsies I went over there and searched "U.S. Government" and it brought me here: https://downdetector.com/status/irs https://downdetector.com/status/irs I guess that's close enough.
- jasoncartwright 8y agoI find the timestamp in the data really enjoyable for some reason... "usa": { "start": "1789-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null },
- presscast 8y ago{"screeching_eagle": true}
- CobrastanJorji 8y ago// TODO: I could only find a red-tailed hawk sound. Fix before shipping.
- house9-2 8y agoLOL, this cracks me up because movies always use the Red-tailed call, even when it is an eagle or vulture being shown
- presscast 8y agoI did not expect this thread to teach me anything, and yet here we are. Why is this the case? Do most birds of prey not have particularly virile screeches or what?
- SAI_Peregrinus 8y agoBald eagles make a sort of whiny peeping. It's a very cute sound, not at all what people expect. To quote Sibley: "Call rather weak, flat, chirping whistles, stuttering, variable. Immature calls generally harsher, more shrill than adult until three to four years old."
- vertexFarm 8y agoHa they're still using that red-tailed hawk sound for pretty much any appearance of a bald eagle in media. The real sound they make is so anticlimactic compared to the hawk screech, they can't ever go back. It would be too silly.
- EduardoBautista 8y agoProbably should be "usa_federal_government".
- Eridrus 8y agoThis is a truly optimistic assessment of the Availability of Government Services. I went to the post office a few weeks ago, and while the building was open, they had stopped taking packages. Not that they wouldn't mail them today, but that they just wouldn't even take them. And that doesn't even count the hours they're meant to be closed. In any case, it's clear that the length of any specific downtime matters as much as the cumulative downtime.
- nostrademons 8y agoIt's measuring whether the service as a whole is outright down and refusing to respond to requests. There's arguably been a degraded user experience since the 80s, but we seem to have reached the cascading failure point in the last 2 years.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoThere's arguments to be made that this is a right-wing coup. Many hardliners in the republican party, along with trump, want to starve the beast. And there's not much more you can do than by harming the rank and file with "you must go to work but we won't pay you". The people in federal positions I know of are already looking elsewhere. Some are trying to survive it. And others are going "sick-out". Regardless how its being done, it is. And this shutdown is starving all non-military federal positions from TSA to the USDA. If this goes on for months, then those people will leave, along with their experience their tenure brought. And eventually, when the government is not "shut down", they will have proof that the government really didn't need those positions. And we open our eyes, and realize the swamp wasn't Capitol Hill. The swamp was us. We're in the middle of draining.
- nostrademons 8y agoMaybe, but I think it's ironic that this shutdown is over a Republican (well, Trumpist) initiative to spend more money, while it's the Democrats who want to hold the line on spending.
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- gpm 8y agoNo shutdowns until 1980, and 10 since then according to the data. What changed in 1980?
- tapesonthefloor 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
- vertexFarm 8y agoAnd we have plenty of data showing how this works out, latest of which might be Kansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Senate_Bill_Substitute_HB_2117 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Senate_Bill_Substitute_...
- whatshisface 8y agoSomeone realized that they could use desk vetoes as a negotiation tool even when what was being vetoed was the budget, without the public really minding enough to cost anyone an election.
- irrational 8y ago{ "start": "1995-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "1995-11-20T00:00:00-05:00" }, { "start": "1995-12-16T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "1996-01-07T00:00:00-05:00" }, I remember this one. I was in college. I was sitting on the front stoop of the house I was living in when the mailman came by. I mentioned that I was surprised he was still working since the government was shutdown. He laughed and said that the USPS is self-funded and is flush with cash and had no debts so they had no problem staying open. Oh how things have changed.
- Scaevolus 8y agoIn case you don't know: the government passed a law that USPS must prefund all benefits (like pensions), which is extremely uncommon (pay-as-you-go is typical). https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432 https://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
- pstrateman 8y agopay-as-you-go is typical and nearly universally results in bankruptcy of the pension plan. requiring USPS to pay for obligations incurred today isn't some crazy scam to bankrupt them
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoActually requiring a fund in escrow to complete its promises is what all companies should have been required to do. Employees took a willful paycut to save money for later... But, why does the company care? You want to know what happens when they don't? They declare bankruptcy and the judge dismisses the pensions, and the federal government takes it over.
- niij 8y agoThis USPS still makes more money than it spends. The government borrows their profits to pay for other net-cost programs like SS and Medicare.
- sdinsn 8y ago
- slg 8y agoMost of us would be fired if we had only one nine in our uptime rate.
- TomK32 8y agoWebsite isn't for small screens. There sure gotta be some funds for that? An SLA I'd never agree to. There might not even be a single 9 in the this year's uptime percentage.
- oneeyedpigeon 8y agoWorks fine on mine (iPad mini, pixel1) - what problem do you have, on what device?
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoOne nine of uptime isn't amazing.
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- cheschire 8y agodurability would be an interesting measurement, including compromise, data loss due to redaction, etc.
- sdinsn 8y agoThe dataset misses one of Trump's earlier shutdowns. He's had 3 shutdowns.