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by wslack 4y ago
It seems like this model would say that Google should not hire without an ironclad assurance that they will never need to do layoffs. Is that fairer - to never employ people in the first place?
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by wslack 4y ago
Honestly though, I'm happy he talked more in this situation. We shouldn't decry people who acted horribly unethically digging their own legal grave.
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by wslack 4y ago
I don't think he wanted "more," exactly - he felt excluded. It felt like something out of the character of friendship he wanted.
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by wslack 4y ago
Hi, I work at USDS (and have worked generally on the hiring process for technologists). You're right about that for many agencies - the reasons being many and systemic, but it shouldn't apply with USDS.
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by wslack 4y ago
Yes, and it's been written up. It doesn't have a moderating effect, at least on its own: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/02/upshot/these-... (It was covered by the Times but pa
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by wslack 4y ago
The provide a fairly clear rationale beyond the ideological concern: users don't know/see who is on SMS and who isn't, and are being hit with high fees, and they are concerned that users may believe they have privacy when the
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by wslack 4y ago
If you can get a city/county/state to adopt Condorcet, by all means have at it. IRV is much better than FPTP because FPTP encourages candidates to drop out of a race so that their supporters can unite around one ideologically alig
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by wslack 4y ago
Calling experienced Product Managers and Human-Centered Designers! The Department of Homeland Security, alongside other federal agencies, is looking for mission-driven technologists within product and design disciplines to help improve cust
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by wslack 4y ago
There are different levels at the infra/platform/application layer. cloud.gov is built on top of AWS IaaS (though the PaaS could also be deployed on other infra).
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by wslack 4y ago
By that logic, we should use illegally obtained evidence to record/track criminals. Not sure that's how the courts actually operate.
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by wslack 4y ago
This is not accurate. There is no fixed annual amounts for anything the US Congress passes, notwithstanding the fact that the LHC is an international project.
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by wslack 4y ago
Some companies don't do this sort of thing. That others do doesn't justify making this sort of choice with every company.
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by wslack 4y ago
That isn't what Twitter is banning. There are plenty of academics working to refine our knowledge around the climate. Conservatives who have dug into the full science have concluded that the consensus today has merit. This is knowable.
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by wslack 4y ago
A goal to get people into government service? Yes. A goal to enable regulatory capture? Definitely not.
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by wslack 4y ago
> I've tried to apply to federal positions for years. I won't even get so much as a "fuck off". Am guessing that you get (eventually) a message that you were "qualified but not referred?"
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by wslack 4y ago
I'd be interested in hearing more about this if you are willing to share (same username on twitter)
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by wslack 4y ago
Here's a job on budgeting with a secret clearance and no drug test requirement: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/646472000
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by wslack 4y ago
Many civil service jobs don't require drug testing at all.
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by wslack 4y ago
There are many situations where the government isn't managing work well but because that fiscally helps the contractor, the contractor works - hard - to keep the status quo in place. That is to the detriment of all of the other compani
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by wslack 4y ago
I understand this viewpoint but in this situation its not accurate. There are huge communities of people working to improve systems. 18F's github repos are public if you want to see exactly what they are doing: https://githu
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by wslack 4y ago
I work at a related office mentioned in this thread (but am posting personally here): You're 100% right about all of these, and I would emphasize that *the tech is not the hard part.* I would challenge you a little bit about something
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by wslack 5y ago
This is region dependent. In the US South its normal to have light conversations with strangers in public spaces (waiting in line, for example).
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by wslack 5y ago
It's still a breach if an org misconfigures an API, allowing more records to be available than was indended.
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by wslack 5y ago
Also, to be clear, those incentives aren't coming from within the bureaucracy. For example, let's say that a program tries to do something and it totally doesn't work. A news story about this will be roughly the same if $10,0
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by wslack 5y ago
Not that different! Hi Alex. :)
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by wslack 5y ago
They accepted edits via pull request when that was in the works! [1] Such a better model of giving feedback or suggesting edits compared to sending in a marked-up PDF. [1]: https://github.com/usnistgov/800-63-3/pul
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by wslack 5y ago
They neither paid him nor had edit approval on his content besides redacting classified information.
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by wslack 5y ago
Other sites reusing the code are listed in this README: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov#readme
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by wslack 5y ago
Try accessing off of VPN.
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by wslack 5y ago
Try getting off VPN if you're on one.

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