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by nxobject 2y ago
I'd argue that's precisely the point of electoral politics, checks and balances and the federal rulemaking process: a bad-decision making agency to Elon (say, FAA oversight of SpaceX) is a good-decision making bureau to others. No
902.
by nxobject 2y ago
Yes he can, but indirectly: in the federal workforce there are more contractors than actual government employees [1], and they share similar roles and responsibilities. Those contracts can be terminated at the pleasure at the government. Ri
903.
by nxobject 2y ago
It existed before DOGE: it's called the Government Accountability Office, accountable to Congress and not the President, and you can report "waste, fraud, and abuse" here: https://www.gao.gov/about/contac
904.
by nxobject 2y ago
"Big Balls, Big Contractor Payday", really.
905.
by nxobject 2y ago
No, but he doesn't need to – the only person he needs to (and wants to) empower and enable is himself.
906.
by nxobject 2y ago
The old piece of advice if you were getting stonewalled was to write a personal letter to "$CEO_NAME, $HQ_ADDRESS". I wonder whether that still works today.
907.
by nxobject 2y ago
Consistency and reproducibility is important part of scientific backing, too.
908.
by nxobject 2y ago
Quasi-mandatory orientation week training about safely drinking really worked – I know college kids who'll eat while they're drinking, and apparently they make make "BORGS" with electrolyte drinks mixed in too. I just wi
909.
by nxobject 2y ago
Mmm, caramel sweet wine, perhaps?
910.
by nxobject 2y ago
I think the two example images are actually the same. (I've always done an italic X.)
911.
Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers? [video](youtube.com)
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912.
by nxobject 2y ago
How would you take into account the converse finding by TFA? > By contrast, children with no market-selling experience (n = 471), enrolled in nearby schools, showed the opposite pattern. These children performed more accurately on simpl
913.
by nxobject 2y ago
I’m not sure what you’re talking about: the percentage of indirects that goes to admin costs has been capped by the feds to 26% for _ages_.
914.
by nxobject 2y ago
Maybe big private institutions will do fine. But this will be devastating for smaller institutions – especially public ones – that have had to deal with declining enrollment for years. I work at a small state access university, without a me
915.
by nxobject 2y ago
Conversely, you could equally argue that NSF spending on training graduate students, and on technology transfer, subsidies industry. I worry that this will lead to a vicious cycle of fewer grad students in the US, leading to less industry i
916.
by nxobject 2y ago
The original title was "White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation".
917.
by nxobject 2y ago
Re: computing with continuous distributions: I recall there was a "show HN" a while ago with a graph-style interface to do computations on continuous distributions, so you could very much budget by modelling a plausible distributi
918.
by nxobject 2y ago
Just release the damn thing for everyone and take advantage of the halo effect. Sure, in an age where every social media app tries to do everything – Reels and statuses and DMs – it's nice to see an app trying to do one thing. Unfortun
919.
by nxobject 2y ago
Interesting reminder from the article that those AR glasses are one of a family of ideas Apple is simultaneously pursuing: > The company is still working on successors to the Vision Pro, including updated versions of the original model.
920.
by nxobject 2y ago
And don’t forget interest payments on the debt (~$800 bil?), which will keep increasing year over year as well.
921.
by nxobject 2y ago
It’s certainly not correct: the FY24 deficit is $1.9T, and the remainder of the ~$6T budget that isn’t DoD, Medicare/Medicaid, SSA, or interest payments is around ~$2.3T. To make a meaningful dent in that deficit, the cuts would have t
922.
by nxobject 2y ago
You say goodwill, we say “consulting” with companies that have directly benefited from their decisions and will benefit from their connections. Going from high positions in government into the post-government life of consulting and leadersh
923.
by nxobject 2y ago
Apart from the fact that the analysis software is being installed on insecure computers, to ingest the PII of employees and of Treasury transactions, by people with security clearance granted at the last minute: The cuts are already preced
924.
by nxobject 2y ago
“Move Fast and Break Things” really does only apply to the scenario where you have to clean up your own messes.
925.
by nxobject 2y ago
Homes there are going for at least 500k now, I think…
926.
by nxobject 2y ago
I swear there's one brillaint chip journalist/analyst at every moment that has the Mandate of Heaven to do brilliant things. Anand Lal Shimpi was that person once, then Ian Cutress...
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by nxobject 2y ago
Oh no, I was disputing the "burned and destroyed" part – don't pick and choose what I said and ignore the rest. I know what I saw: between 2020 and 2024 I worked at PSU and took a bus that went over the Hawthorne Bridge, went
928.
by nxobject 2y ago
Where on earth are you getting “burned and destroyed much of [Portland]” from? As a Portlander, the biggest effect of the Floyd protestors was boarded up buildings in the 10-block radius around the local county jail, in the middle of a mori
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by nxobject 2y ago
Oh yes, I agree with you - I just wanted to mention another source of unaccountable spending on Medicare.
930.
by nxobject 2y ago
Watch out, though - I think running MCL crashes some emulators like Mini vMac the last time I checked.

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