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They'll do this now and then act shocked when some of these ex nasa people end up working in Europe or China lol
by lawlessone 1y ago
They'll do this now and then act shocked when some of these ex nasa people end up working in Europe or China lol
- schmidtleonard 1y agoEven without that factor, making deep cuts to research funding right before Cold War II: Electric Boogaloo seems like a bad move.
- dylan604 1y agoIf you were acting on behalf of the other players in the sequel, these would be great moves.
- antonvs 1y agoTurns out people like Trump and Gabbard might be smarter than they appear. It's just a pity that they use that against the US.
- Gud 1y agoThey aren’t.
- pavlov 1y agoThey’re not smart, but both of them have been cultivated by Russia for decades. For a long time Trump has been repeating Russian talking points like he invented them. The best asset is the one who never sees how he’s being played. Only recently Trump has realized that Putin doesn’t actually do what he says, and you can tell he is genuinely surprised by this revelation.
- kube-system 1y agoTrump is simply a narcissist and socialite who has broad ideas about how he thinks the world should work, but like anyone at a high leadership position, surrounds himself with other people he trusts to execute on the details. In this case, all of the downsizing that has been happening is right out of the Heritage Foundation playbook, literally. And those plans are largely a manifestation of Kevin Roberts' political beliefs. He, in his book, has said things such as: > "many of America's institutions...need to be burned" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%27s_Early_Light:_Taking_Back_Washington_to_Save_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%27s_Early_Light:_Taking_B... This executive has been criticized as using a hatchet and not a scalpel in their downsizing options precisely because their fundamental driving belief is that all of it is waste and abuse. They don't want any of it.
- lawlessone 1y agoI no longer think he's deliberately acting on their behalf. He's just so stupid that's equivalent to that.
- dylan604 1y agoFor those that worked so diligently to put him in place, the result is the same nonetheless.
- lawlessone 1y agoAbsolutely. :/
- Trasmatta 1y agoWe've been in Cold War II for awhile now
- bitlax 1y agoI actually want that guy gone yesterday.
- bpodgursky 1y agoEh. I'm not saying it's a great scheme, but these are almost all people taking retirement a couple years early. China is not interested in stealing 1980s NASA tech, and Europe aerospace is a non-player.
- coryrc 1y agoThe way you say that more supports the idea these people should have been laid off a while ago. I bet plenty have that useful "unwritten institutional knowledge" that could help newer programs. (F.ex. instructions for a nuclear waste storage said to use kitty litter, but didn't say it was because it was a cheap source of bentonite clay; someone substituted some modern paper variant and caused a small nuclear incident).
- gtirloni 1y agoAgeism at its best. Senior folks are stuck in time and only know 80's tech, right ?
- catigula 1y agoThat doesn't sound legal.
- bilekas 1y agowhy wouldn't it be though?
- catigula 1y ago[flagged]
- timschmidt 1y agoTough to stop someone from packing up their belongings and getting on a boat. NASA has at times been used as a way to keep people with relevant skillsets employed domestically to prevent this.
- ortusdux 1y agoDoes not want ≠ illegal.
- waffleiron 1y agoThen they should pay them, in Germany a non-compete has to be compensated. A country might not want brain drain at all, is it then acceptable to stop people from leaving?
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- daemonologist 1y agoEAR/ITAR restrictions maybe? China at least is ITAR restricted and has a lot of entities on the EAR list. I'm not a lawyer though; no idea what regulations you'd actually be subject to.
- samrus 1y agoFor NASA? I dont see why not. Unless they were doing something related to natsec
- fareesh 1y agodon't they all sign a document saying it's all classified tech?
- Jtsummers 1y agoNot necessarily. Not all the work for the government is classified, and over classification is technically, which means it still happens and is mostly ignored, against the law. And having worked on some classified systems doesn't preclude employment in related fields. It does restrict what you can share, of course.
- aqme28 1y agoSure there are probably NDAs to keep specific tech from moving, but that doesn't mean the talent that invented the tech can't move.