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by cuuupid 2y ago
> This move comes as Cornell and 11 other universities have filed a lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health over funding restrictions that could cost Cornell $80 million. This is less than 0.75% of Cornell's endowment, so
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(Lucy Guo is notably the co-founder of Scale AI, a Forbes 30 under 30 member, and a TPOT celebrity.)
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Passes.com and Lucy Guo accused of distributing child pornography [pdf](csvllp.com)
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One oft forgotten thing is that the US government clouds rated for IL5/6 are secluded on SIPRnet and JWICS. These are totally separate networks with CDS’s being the only way to go from one net to the other. In practice this means the U
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Yeah I can understand the sentiment. I’m being optimistic primarily because the alternative is to accept that our economy is going to eventually go bust and turn us into a debtor society to foreign economies. The building is on fire, closin
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Yes Congress cannot be trusted, that is why I am not complaining like many in this thread about the methods of achieving cuts or executive overreach — this is the best chance we have had in years to get anything done. The only real way you
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When we are all debt slaves to foreign economies I will be sure to reassure my fellow citizens with our treasure troves of useful reports!
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You are falling for Washington Monument Syndrome! I don’t know that Palantir will be under scrutiny but they are a really tiny government contractor. I would love to see the defense primes + big consulting firms like Accenture be on the cho
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There technically is because the interest on the deficit alone is about to exceed total defense spending, over time we will eventually just become a debt slave society paying to other economies. But practically the self correcting mechanism
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Medicaid applies blanket to less than 20% of the population while providing less coverage and having worse outcomes than the NHS. I picked the NHS because it serves the same size population (70M) while having more coverage and better outcom
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Large private sector companies operate on a 30% profit margin and have exponentially lower capex and opex compared to the federal government. The federal government with exponentially higher revenue that exceeds the entire market cap of the
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Why are we setting the bar at the poor? 65% of americans live paycheck to paycheck yet pay 20-30% in income tax alone. John Doe working in sales with three kids will lose his home if he misses a few paychecks. He drives a 2009 Toyota Camry
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I think people would react viscerally if they knew Shyam blasphemed himself as Jesus, literally appointed 12 apostles, and held a last supper-like meeting with a long ass conference table. Many such stories
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Yes, well documented phenomenon — the government spends more between July-September than the rest of the year combined. Conversely spends very little in December and January. Not me but another contractor got a phone call the last day of th
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I think for many people, this is the first exposure to audits and spending reduction in govt. So judging on an absolute scale, yeah DOGE is not doing a great job. Judging on a relative scale to past attempts and the existing 5(!) agencies w
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Because of the existence of [1] FedRAMP and other compliance initiatives that are blanket applied to everything even though 90% of SaaS contracts do NOT need it, and [2] past performance being predominantly the #1 factor for evaluation, con
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Contractors are hired by civil servants, these are not independent things. I don’t think DOGE will fix this because the solution is easy but very counterintuitive — we would need around 30% raises to all federal employees at GS-12 and highe
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Who do you think hires contractors and puts out contracts? The only way to get promoted at and above gs-12 is to amass reports and budget authority. The wasteful spending is not handed down mandatory by congress, it is conducted using budge
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Yes, they are correlated ; contracts are created with budget authority afforded to federal employees. Essentially the only way to get promoted is to amass reports and budget, and use it in some way. So it’s basically like this: yes, the fed
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GAO, OMB, CBO, GSA, OIGs (civil agency-specific, DoD OIG, Treasury OIG) People are acting like I'm making outlandish claims, you can literally just google this! If you are going to go down a rabbit hole I recommend USASpending, which c
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> That's still a cool 70 million people. Yes, hence why I'm comparing it to the NHS supporting the UK (~70M pop). Also note the NHS's coverage far exceeds Medicaid. > Sounds like a good argument for [properly-administer
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I will raise you a more direct analogy, let's imagine you have a deep wound in your arm and are actively bleeding out. There are 5 doctors who you have paid to treat you; they came, performed some tests, confirmed you are wounded, but
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I said `generally` not `exclusively` and you are selecting one very specific application of funding to generalize against all federal funding. I literally analyze this stuff for work, there is barely a 3-5% contraction in spending. This is
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Yes! The IRS budget has nearly doubled in the last decade, primarily to increase their workforce and use manpower to focus on shotgunning low-yield audits. High-income audits are difficult to conduct. To increase receipts, it is far easier
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I see this take a lot in this thread, I think people do not comprehend the scale. Your company sends people in business class needlessly, ok. The government sends people in private jets needlessly -- there are dozens of separate aviation pr
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There are now billions-USD-worth fewer dollars being taken from struggling American workers. Administrative spending is also not that high, the majority of savings are in contracts. This is related to jobs because every employee you lay off
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I say govt politics is so much worse because it is not like, a handful of people trying to get ahead by spending a lot, it is almost all of them. They're also vicious, many times I have been cussed out by bureaucrats over stupid things
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Defense is not only auditable but is regularly audited; publicly by GAO and CBO, and internally by their OIG: https://www.dodig.mil > they spend the most by far This is not true and for some reason a common myth that is easil
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If you look seriously you will find military contracts and spending usually achieves something and is in many cases very difficult to decrease. It has become somewhat of a pattern for politicians to yell about defense spending, get elected,
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By the same logic the GAO, OIG's, OMB, and GSA are all government employees, presenting an even more immediate and direct conflict of interest. BTW SpaceX is a fairly tiny government contractor -- big ones like Accenture and other cons

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