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by refurb 2y ago
What struck me most about your response is what you hear from all the stakeholders when it comes to reforming the healthcare system in the US - you talk to each individual stakeholder and they'll give you a list of reasons why they are
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by refurb 2y ago
Sorry, that argument falls flat. We're talking about schools with multi-billion dollar endowments, new sports stadiums, branded new facilities, fat tuition fees from international students and a ton of pet projects by the university. B
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by refurb 2y ago
> This is 0.25% of the national deficit by cutting indirect expenses from 30%+ to 15%. The federal budget (save DOD and entitlements) is stuff like this. Saying “oh well, it’s just 0.25%” is the reason why nobody can tackle the deficit.
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by refurb 2y ago
Precisely. I remember my university taking 35% off the top of all grants for a lab that was 30 years old (hadnt been updated), and a sufficient but hardly cutting edge instrument room. The university was getting far more money than if the P
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by refurb 2y ago
It will be interesting to see who comes out in defense of the schools who will have to take on the burden of indirect costs. How can they possibly shoulder the costs with their $40,000/yr tuitions and multi-billion dollar endowments?
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by refurb 2y ago
The problem with anecdotes is that the brain is a hell of a drug. I work in clinical trials and it’s amazing at the list of side effects participants get when they are in the placebo arm. And it’s not even small numbers. It’s not unusual f
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by refurb 2y ago
Cleanliness is... mostly downstream of storefronts and the like picking shit up _all the time_. Indeed, it’s the same in Singapore. Despite the law and order reputation of Singapore, plenty of people regularly break laws there, including
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by refurb 2y ago
No, the checks and balances are defined as simply different people, not different parties. The Democratic and Republican parties are not monolithic. They don't always agree and there are plenty of differences across individuals. Hence
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by refurb 2y ago
> the remaining functions of government are controlled by a single party You realize that the check and balances never required that different parties head each branch of government? I'm not sure you have even a basic understanding
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by refurb 2y ago
USAID still exists, it's now under the State Department. It is true that one could argue where the authority of the President starts and stops, but that's going to be figured out in the courts. And the Trump administration was sm
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by refurb 2y ago
> The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the deep state". What do you mean? I see plenty of people trying to stop DOGE. Not very successful so f
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by refurb 2y ago
It’s absolutely fascinating how divorced from reality people’s worldview can get to the point that the level of arrogance gets so high that people proudly declare their responsibility to be judge, jury and executioner of vast swaths of the
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by refurb 2y ago
> But only recently has it been reframed as a DEI issue. Did we read the same article? I didn't see this as a "reframing" but rather an investigative expose into the history and most importantly "why". And it&#x
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by refurb 2y ago
The same McConnell who, after being in the Senate for 40 years, was recently praised on 60 minutes with "his greatest accomplishment is funding the Ukraine War"?
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by refurb 2y ago
> The rule of law died Jan 20 This kind of hyperbole isn’t helpful when the outgoing President hands out pardons like they were coupons, nor when the President can’t remember signing EOs and is known to have limited mental faculties for
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by refurb 2y ago
If it’s anything like SF most crime goes unreported. Not to mention the knock on effect. A single criminal incident can result in thousands of people choosing not to use public transport. But you are right, the crime aspect is overblown in
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by refurb 2y ago
> But he cannot just decide "ABC is a waste of money, let's abolish the agency and use that $X/year to pay off the debt instead". Do you agree? Or are you claiming that the President could unilaterally abolish the ABC
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by refurb 2y ago
He was a major in the US Army, typically leading a battalion, and while not a government department, saying he has “no experience” is false. What does a battalion leader need? Organizational ability, the ability to motivate. He is preceded
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by refurb 2y ago
Least qualified according to who? The Democrats? It’s politics. These are political roles. It’s organizational leading and having people in place who are aligned with your goals, not splicing DNA. And we’ve had the qualified one who got
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by refurb 2y ago
It’s all a rounding error until it isn’t. Doesn’t make tossing $50B out the window “ok”. It’s like the people making a $100k who don’t know where all the money goes. It’s all just a rounding error, but rounding errors add up fast.
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by refurb 2y ago
> They did sue, and a federal judge temporarily blocked the "federal spending freeze". Last I saw the judge blocked the mechanism, and needed time to decide on other issues. Hence the confusing email (only if you don’t know how
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by refurb 2y ago
Looking like it will go down this time! Isn’t that what everyone seems to be complaining about in this comment section?
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by refurb 2y ago
No, it’s not “quite clear” as the link provided described. Any impoundment authority and how it has been curtailed is purely a political solution, not a constitutional one. If the Democrats think they are right they can go to the Supreme Co
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by refurb 2y ago
If only HN had a reminder option. The doom and gloom in these comments is truly funny. I remember the exact same when Trump won the first time. It’s like HN has no memory.
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by refurb 2y ago
I think this comment confused a few things. First off, there is no evidence the US will never fund science again. Second, top scientific positions in the US are at academic labs, not at NIH (bare a few top people spending some time there).
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by refurb 2y ago
The idea that the President, the head of the Executive branch, has zero power over Executive branch spending down to the agency level, because Congress said X must be spent and dammit they must spend it, makes no sense. By that logic and ta
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by refurb 2y ago
Oh give the “goodwill, friendship and solidarity line” a rest. Canada has opposed the US many, many times (as is its right), so no need for the “but our feelings are really hurt” line. Canadians aren’t stupid. They’ve been living next to
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by refurb 2y ago
“Only 43 pounds” or 9.7M fatal doses.
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by refurb 2y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It’s the classic “put more armor on the areas with holes for planes that make it back from bombing raids”. Inspections at the respective borders is absolutely not equal as anyone who has travelled by land thr
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by refurb 2y ago
Ok, so all payments are paused while funding is reviewed? Allowance for emergency payments to keep the lights on? This is taxpayers money and these agencies report to the President under the executive power. A shocker that government agen

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