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Agree with jrochkind1 that it doesn't matter whether it's worth it or not. I suppose chairs and desks for all US Government employees pay for their cost 1000x o
by savanaly 4y ago
Agree with jrochkind1 that it doesn't matter whether it's worth it or not. I suppose chairs and desks for all US Government employees pay for their cost 1000x over, but I would hope people would still not let their costs balloon to more than, say, 2x what they "should" cost by some common-sense metric.
- woodruffw 4y agoSure, but what's the common-sense metric here? As posted elsewhere in the thread: this is ~$40m/year for an IdP/login scheme for the entire USG (and, increasingly, state and local governments). That's significantly less than the engineering talent at companies like Okta and Authy probably cost each year, even before factoring in overhead and non-engineering roles. All things considered, this looks like a very efficient use of taxpayer money to me. Particularly since it seems to have been primarily paid for on GS pay grades, not with private contractors.