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by nxobject 2y ago
How much is “significant”?
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by nxobject 2y ago
Not just by individuals - by Medicare Advantage managed care organizations, too… like the biggest insurers in this country.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Good grief, don’t identify me and the rest of HN with then. I don’t want to be “us” with people in government who make a virtue out of being unaccountable solely because they’re successful engineers.
934.
by nxobject 2y ago
By who, other than Elon Musk, in turn accountable to no one?
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by nxobject 2y ago
Federal salaries are public information.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Or, for that matter, before the judiciary can act as a balance. Establishing “facts on the ground”.
937.
by nxobject 2y ago
It’s the definition of failing up: you sin bullshit for long enough, and make big enough changes, that you get your next job before you’re accountable for the consequences.
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by nxobject 2y ago
The good news: battery life ranges about 3-5 hours; close to an older Switch. However, I wonder how much of that performance is distro-dependent (i.e. scheduler, knobs to turn on/off services), which might affect moddability.
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by nxobject 2y ago
The author's argument is that aptitude requirements did not change, but what changed is that some candidates were now less experienced after not having gone through ATC degrees. (But the author doesn't attribute the tragedy to tha
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by nxobject 2y ago
I assume you want ammunition against your own arguments. But I'm confused about what you're asking: you were talking in your original comment about the _admissions_ process to ATC academy, and now you're talking about the pro
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by nxobject 2y ago
I'm not sure how any of the current initiatives will lead to a balanced budget, to be honest. Here's a site by the Congressional Budget Office, which will likely be more reliable than the Treasury going forward. https:/&#x2F
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by nxobject 2y ago
For what it's worth, I wouldn't be surprised if Medicare ends up spending more per enrolled member because they'll force CMS to be more heavily reliant on Medicare Advantage plans administered by private insurers.
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by nxobject 2y ago
How is #metoo equivalent having a series of private citizens sideline officials in every government department, including the Treasury, to get access to federal administrative and financial databases to unilaterally conduct mass layoffs [0]
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by nxobject 2y ago
God, if it's a purge, I hope someone has a "corrupt government contractor" index fund out there I can throw whatever severance I'll get in so I can at least hope to have a retirement.
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by nxobject 2y ago
As a side note, federal employee salaries themselves (*) account for less than 8% of the federal budget. What that says about the intent of slashing the workforce is beyond me. (*) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-
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by nxobject 2y ago
Yes and no – I do believe that the MIC, explicitly stated, doesn't exist now as it has before: he illustrates it by noting the fact that the top five legacy arms and defense manufacturers don't earn as much, or have the same marke
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by nxobject 2y ago
That's certainly the country (or at least the stock markets) as a whole. I'm not sure whether individual agencies – like the FBI(*) or the Inspector Generals – will ever get what integrity they had back. (*) I say this as someone
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by nxobject 2y ago
You're right – we'll see what the Republican majorities in Congress decide to do. You'd hope they wouldn't trample over the Congressional Research Service (of the LoC), but given the level of political debate I think it
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by nxobject 2y ago
I would hope there would be some check and balance, or a transparent procedure, or even a paper trail involved here. /s (Who am I kidding? FOIA offices are probably going to be slashed; independent Inspector Generals have been forced o
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by nxobject 2y ago
I certainly hope the choice wasn't "resign now or be involved in the paper trail".
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by nxobject 2y ago
Never mind the biggest capitalist in the world – it's the glaring conflicts of interest that smack me in the head here. I grew up in a middle-income Southeast Asian country that built a whole lot of infrastructure projects while I was
952.
by nxobject 2y ago
Can you say more about where the "3 out of 4" comes from? I'll admit that I've worked on hiring committees in exactly four places, so it's been a straight 0 out of 4 for me. (One at a small liberal arts college; one
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by nxobject 2y ago
I imagine this is a practical example of tradeoffs and threat models: mapping syllables-to-syllables is quite a lot of information to leak from the plaintext, but if the cost of that was a less suspicious ciphertext in the age of intercepti
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by nxobject 2y ago
I don't know how numerics in hardware works, but would the use of functions like sin, cos, sqrt incur a penalty as well, even if only a slight one? It's really fascinating to think about how all of this would work.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Apropos of SIMD – I'm also surprised that the inner loop of the rejection-based algorithm optimized to MMX, but not the analytic algorithm! I would like to think the rejection algorithm after -O3 is benefiting from branch prediction an
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by nxobject 2y ago
Having been on a few hiring committees, both in academia, industry, and state: no, it is not arcane; scoring people fairly and literally against interview questions, that form a fraction of the whole candidate ranking process, are literally
957.
by nxobject 2y ago
Were you required to buy into it? Prove your “loyalty”? What do you mean?
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by nxobject 2y ago
A really fascinating detail from the article: apparently, the Soviet Union had a CDC installation as well... > In Leningrad, APL users grouped around the Scientific Research Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in which a Cy
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by nxobject 2y ago
Other than their federal jurisdiction, what separates them, structurally, from any other flawed LEA and makes then incorruptible? (And, where the hell do you live?)
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by nxobject 2y ago
Well, ring me up when "Linux HPC" and "OSS" becomes a majority-government contractor, and I'll switch to rack Mac Pros.

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