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by wslack 6y ago
Yep. It's cantankerous but gosh darn it, the field lacks something better.
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by wslack 6y ago
> The CoCs are completely unnecessary Where do you think they come from? The issues that people have to deal with at conferences aren't new [1] - and when the offender is a friend of the organizer, or works on their team, having a p
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by wslack 6y ago
Epic is likely not the vector for this sort of thing (it runs using a thin client); far easier to take advantage of unpatched machines.
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by wslack 6y ago
Giving money is different than speaking. Do we have a right to anonymous speech amplified according to our means?
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by wslack 6y ago
I don't think moving viral misinformation from chain e-mail to hyper-spread tweets via algorithm has improved the marketplace of ideas.
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by wslack 6y ago
The block is only needed because of the amplification. If tweets and posts showed up chronologically vs from ML-driven engines to identifying the most grabbing content, we wouldn't be systemically hyper-charging emotionally hooking mis
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by wslack 6y ago
I think this has been the policy for any/all books published without proper review.
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by wslack 6y ago
This isn't accurate. The Russian DNC hacking and release was hugely impactful and timed to have a partisan impact.
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by wslack 6y ago
100% - and even the best developer may not understand all of a user's needs until they get their hands on a prototype. We should always expect to learn and pivot as we learn more about users.
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by wslack 6y ago
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | Data Scientists | Woodlawn, MD | ONSITE required in general for new hires, but 100% REMOTE during COVID-19 | https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/577619700 You co
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by wslack 6y ago
That's true - there are lots of folks on the ground who know what's needed but can't get top cover to enact it.
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by wslack 6y ago
This isn't a decision that can be made within the executive branch (I think). Congress would have to pass laws that enable "bureaucrats to get paid more."
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by wslack 6y ago
I'd just push back - technology is a tool to accomplish the missions of government. The positions that run those missions - enforcing the law, ruling on the law, running Medicare, etc etc - should be more prestigious. That said, if the
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by wslack 6y ago
This sort of thing is exactly what USDS works against. However, it won't be solved until federal agencies hire on people with the skillset to effectively manage technology.
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by wslack 6y ago
He was my representative before redistricting. If you don't know his story, it's worth taking the time. He got himself beat up to unconsciousness so that the rest of the United States would not be able to ignore the brutality of i
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by wslack 6y ago
Nothing about how they are fixing their internal processes that enabled individual employees to do password resets. Can anyone at twitter get control of any account? That seems problematic.
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by wslack 6y ago
This is not the first time Google has done this, for what its worth - simply the first time there's been widespread attention on it.
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by wslack 6y ago
> The internet activity that Kemp’s staff described as hacking attempts was actually scans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the secretary of state’s office had agreed to, according to the GBI. Kemp’s chief information off
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by wslack 6y ago
Apologies maintain norms and standards. They define the lines we shouldn't cross by noting areas where they were crossed. We should reward apologies and punish those who don't. Our failure to do so is creating a market incentive t
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by wslack 6y ago
Agreed, but when the talent isn't there, its easy for "helped supervise a contract to deliver X" to get equated with "expertise in X." Expertise is also needed to know what are big problems in a RFQ response, vs sma
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by wslack 6y ago
In order to outsource effectively, though, you need the ability to judge which vendors are strongest. I think there's been a pattern of thinking technical talent isn't needed when outsourcing when the opposite is true.
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by wslack 6y ago
This happens. I've also seen cases where the vendor, by contract, does not permit government staff outside of 1-2 people from viewing the source code.
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by wslack 6y ago
> But a lot of the US is not like this-- school districts, municipal and county government, etc would do pretty poorly to follow some parts of these guidelines, and quite well served to follow others. True - I think the playbook is speci
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by wslack 6y ago
Happy to help answer questions about this (or direct them to the authors!)
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by wslack 7y ago
It's more accurate (IMO) to say the two have really different operating models. 18F is funded via cost recovery - agencies have to pay per project via an official agreement between agencies for the work (which can make it harder to do
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by wslack 7y ago
CMS (US Gov) | Product Managers | Woodlawn, MD | Onsite | https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/561960700 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the federal government is hiring product manag
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by wslack 7y ago
> Like much enterprise software, the people who decide to buy it are not the people that use it. Hard agree. There's also an incentive for hospital systems to "hold onto" patient data, which is not great.
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by wslack 7y ago
I don't see that insinuation in the article. It says he was part of a bad tone and that his actions had a negative impact on an untold number of women, but that's a far cry from what you said above.
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by wslack 7y ago
The VA's old system (VistA) is that open source solution - but other hospitals didn't want to use or buy it. I think the EMR industry is driven more by safety, liability, and revenue for hospitals (in that order) than by patient&#
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by wslack 7y ago
> Places where no one is sure who owns what, or who is responsible for what are unlikely to have proper monitoring and much more likely to be two or three upgrades behind. The seams are where things get lost, sometimes for years. So if y

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