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by wslack 7y ago
This is the talk I want to hear sometime.
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by wslack 7y ago
> this comment is overemphasizing the impact a lone engineer working on a government project will have, which will just disillusion and frustrate applicants once they start the job. Very reasonable assumption! However, that's not th
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by wslack 8y ago
They aren't. Prices are based on the HCPCS codes (CPT for clinical charges). For example, a 99213 is a return office visit.
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by wslack 8y ago
I don't think delusion is a fair take: FiveThirtyEight Prediction: 48.5% to 44.9% Real outcome: 48.2% to 46.1% I agree that the horserace coverage is silly (especially given how polling operations use sampling and such), but its better
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by wslack 8y ago
Local and state governments in the US build most roads and are responsible for them. When the roads are built in a way that causes lots of accidents at a particular intersection (even though the people "at fault" in these accident
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by wslack 8y ago
Showing up and casting a blank ballot is legitimate. Abstaining is surrender.
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by wslack 8y ago
The most annoying part of this document is the watermark. It seems like a cogent summary of different ideas in the space - and doesn't advocate for "good censorship" (I think the title of the deck is provocative and unhelpful
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by wslack 8y ago
I find it strange that being this profitable is labeled a "lifestyle business." The hypergrowth/unicorn exit isn't a healthy outcome for many businesses.
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by wslack 8y ago
Being encouraged to be "tough" and creating rituals of humiliation are different IMO.
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by wslack 8y ago
Cash is also harder to collect and manage. It has a scaling problem that cryptocurrencies do not.
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by wslack 8y ago
It's really not. The US gov't can't require censorship like that.
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by wslack 9y ago
I saw Cindy just a few weeks ago. She was wonderful and kind as usual, and she was a positive presence, the kind of which we can never have enough of. This is heartbreaking.
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by wslack 9y ago
The reactions that were most amplified likely included some namecalling, but I saw a lot of well-reasoned and detailed takedowns of the pseudoscience in the memo. My guess is that both sides look at the worst of the other to justify themsel
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by wslack 9y ago
That only works when you have a way to ensure that people who invent things have a way to make a living. Most people working on open source do it as volunteers; only a few have it as part of their job, and the ecosystem suffers. Deep resear
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by wslack 9y ago
Old reputations are hard to shake. This speech[1], by the first administrator of USDS, is my favorite to quote on the topic: > Some of you, not all of you, are working right now on another app for people to share pictures of food or a so
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by wslack 9y ago
Income security includes VA costs, I think, so its not all direct support of individuals.
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by wslack 10y ago
This is a really interesting question, given the very long tail of old browsers out there. There's downloadable data about the browsers visiting gov't websites (all anonymized by Google Analytics)[1], but that doesn't solve t
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by wslack 10y ago
Issues/PRs welcome! https://github.com/18F/frontend
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by wslack 10y ago
That's being fixed: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/issues/1738
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by wslack 10y ago
You can look up the people involved using GitHub. A desire for positive publicity doesn't invalidate anything good an org does.
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by wslack 10y ago
Check this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433319 Neither 18F or USDS existed when healthcare.gov launched.
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by wslack 10y ago
The TL;DR answer is that compliance in the government is expensive (for example, the gov't can require companies to maintain amended terms of service[1]). There are many vendors who choose not to work with government for that reason an
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by wslack 10y ago
* I work at 18F I think the press articles that sometimes lump it all together can be frustrating at times and I like Matt's descriptions above. Another important difference: when USDS attends a meeting it's the "White House&
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by wslack 10y ago
I think you might be interested in this news from last year: https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/119166
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by wslack 10y ago
<3
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Tracking the U.S. government's progress on moving to HTTPS(18f.gsa.gov)
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by wslack 10y ago
"cloud" can be a scary topic, because it implies a loss of control and accountability.
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by wslack 10y ago
I think government, in general, is built to be slow and deliberate, but as the pace of tech change has accelerated, the responsiveness of government hasn't kept up. Git was invested in 2005, for example. ref: https://bhc3.fi
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by wslack 10y ago
I think that's the case right now with many jobs in mgmt consulting / investment banking. You can end up with a negative situation where people devote every waking hour then feel all subsequent success is owed to them - not great.
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by wslack 10y ago
Replicated and logged! https://github.com/18F/cg-landing/issues/67

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