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by djur 2y ago
Which government agencies have been targeted by Democrats for being too conservative?
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by djur 2y ago
I have worked at a place with a bot like that. It's one of over a dozen bots in that repository and seems to have been created and maintained by 3 people over the years. I believe 18F peaked at 250 employees. Some of the terms are genu
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by djur 2y ago
Many people who support Trump also think that people like me and my friends are child-abusing Satanists, that there are secret underground military bases containing millions of abducted children, that there's hidden "med-bed"
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by djur 2y ago
How do you legislate "ideological neutrality" into an agency? There's nothing left-wing about 18F's mission. If Republicans are unhappy about how agencies use rulemaking power, they have had many opportunities over the p
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by djur 2y ago
You've been "told" that? Who's been telling you that? I've seen some people on the Internet say it, sure. Why do they matter to you?
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by djur 2y ago
USDS was gutted and turned into DOGE, 18F is shuttered, and IRS is having mass layoffs.
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by djur 2y ago
I don't see any evidence that 18F was any more "far-left" than tech workers on average.
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by djur 2y ago
You can't "doxx" someone working as a government advisor. The public has an absolute right to know.
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by djur 2y ago
Why would they do it next cycle when they haven't done it in the past, especially when there's fair odds that the military will be more Democratic in the future?
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by djur 2y ago
What makes you think that "massive amounts of ideologically fueled bureaucrats" run the government?
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by djur 2y ago
Biden didn't open the border. This is simply a lie. As furious progressives will tell you, Biden deported more people than Trump and tried to get Congress to pass a broadly restrictive immigration reform bill.
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by djur 2y ago
First, what was done with the money: > The $2 billion was used for the "decarbonization of homes" in low-income communities and paid for new household appliances, such as water heaters, induction stoves, solar panels, EV charge
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by djur 2y ago
The article says they couldn't confirm Musk's claims about the number of employees.
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by djur 2y ago
Even with the recent firings, there are over 2 million full time federal employees. Who's going to be reading and evaluating these emails? There is no person, and certainly no algorithm, capable of doing so in any responsible way.
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by djur 2y ago
Non-level systems showed up in JRPGs and CRPGs, too. Just like in tabletop, they carved out a decent foothold without ever completely defeating level systems. If anything, you'd think that more flexible systems would be more attractive
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by djur 2y ago
And yet classes and levels and HP have endured, far beyond D&D. Skill point systems and injury systems have their own shortcomings. One form of gameplay isn't superior to or more advanced than another. I'd argue that the conce
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by djur 2y ago
The thing about D&D is that you can generally make it work for a wide swath of players. At the table I've been playing at for years, we have people who are in it for the gameplay crunch, people who are in it for roleplaying, and pe
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by djur 2y ago
> The executive branch of government is more accurately viewed as a monolithic organization which derives 100% of it's authority by delegation from the US President. This is a very extreme version of unitary executive theory, which
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by djur 2y ago
They can pass new laws which the current president has stated he will interpret according to his desires, sure.
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by djur 2y ago
Also, they're run by people appointed by elected officials, just like any other government agency. They serve according to laws passed by the people's representatives and signed by the president, and they can be removed from their
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by djur 2y ago
They're firing probationary employees -- newer hires and recent promotions. The "rest & vest" types don't fall into that category.
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by djur 2y ago
In context, "while the game is running" is meant to prohibit a category of glitches you can trigger in console games by bumping/removing the game media (like the exploits mentioned). I don't think in context it was inten
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by djur 2y ago
This really isn't true. One of the most famous speedrunning games is Super Metroid, and its two glitchless categories are the most actively competitive ones. Ocarina of Time glitchless had a new world record a few months back. Glitched
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by djur 2y ago
A lot of games have community members who are known more as researchers than as competitive runners. Even if you don't have the reflexes or time to get on the leaderboard, you might be able to devise strats for the people who do.
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by djur 2y ago
An example I'm aware of is the Lufia II No Major Glitches/No RNG Manipulation run. That game is very easy to make essentially deterministic with RNG manipulation, but like most highly technical RPG runs it's long and exhausti
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by djur 2y ago
The Pied Piper strategy was to draw media attention to Trump, Cruz, and Carson in order to force the mainstream candidates like Bush and Walker to comment on issues they'd prefer not to. It was not to get Trump nominated, which you can
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by djur 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Imp...
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by djur 2y ago
Is it possible your conversation partner had looked up fountain pens recently?
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by djur 2y ago
This is literally a Trump press release. Are you aware there were new tariffs announced today?
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by djur 2y ago
What I mean is that a superintelligence powerful enough that it could create a simulation of a long-dead human being so accurate as to raise continuity-of-consciousness questions would be powerful enough that it would consider every thought

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