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No other administration has used the "supply chain risk" designation against an American company. This is unprecedented.

By that logic we should expect all governments to regress to totalitarianism, which hasn’t happened, and isn’t what’s happening here. The question isn’t if some would attempt these…

I think aggregators are useful to tell us what actually moved voters in a campaign - the swings are visible even if baseline error is not.

It's free as long as Cash.app wants to maintain it. I'd rather there'd be no incentive to complicate the tax code such that many people need to hire accountants to figure it out.

We know that. The mainstream discussion, use, and personification of LLMs does not suggest that.

Then lawmakers should change the law, instead of a private actor asserting that their need overrides others' rights.

It should do that, because it's still not actually an intelligence. It's a tool that is figuring out what to say in response that sounds intelligent - and will often succeed!

There's an incentive problem here because litigation is so expensive. If the fine is large enough, it becomes more and more worth it for the company to fight it in court - and ther…

The author of this is presenting their view and you have hours of content to watch about this if you want to dig into it. One problem is that "lab leak," as Peter says, means a bun…

> is it fine to work on open source projects at Meta, or is it bad because Meta is bad? I think OP would say its better to work on open source at Meta than closed source at Meta, a…

Representatives have elections to determine how long they can serve; career civil servants have strong protections against firing but the downside is a challenging hiring process t…

> we let them post an RFP that basically says do this thing in this amount of time for this amount of money with payment after we get the “thing” in time. These exist; they are cal…

Serving at USDS, posting personally. The biggest thing with the gov is the requirements on usajobs are always explained specifically so you know exactly what is needed. Beyond that…

The pay cap is set in law, but you need people sufficiently invested in the mission to forgo a higher possible salary, which isn't possible for everyone (especially folks who might…

FWIW both DC and SF top out at 183,500 now.

> the biggest is that you need skilled people in the government who can review bids and oversee work It's also very isolating to be the "one person" who knows the subject area. Hav…

> I do think an overhaul of the civilian service is worth exploring. There are decades of reports and proposals about this. Unfortunately, we keep learning the same lessons over an…

Current USDSer here posting personally. I hear this and you aren't alone. It's not a decision specifically about USDS, more about the entire White House staff and federal law.

As someone who does this sort of work (but posting personally, not officially), you're 100% right. There are groups of already-networked folks you can join like USDS or 18F that ar…

I don't think climate action controls majorities in many countries.

It's the "permanent" bit. Being an asylee or refugee isn't necessarily a permanent status - like if your home country gets out of a civil war or a coup leader ends the coup and goe…

Got it - so the scientific community's reaction (trying to replicate) was ok but the initial authors messed up with their pre-print? That's fair.

> the government we have is what the founders warned about and did their best to prevent/delay. Can you say more about that? They warned against faction but political parties devel…

Defined here as linked from a study footnote, for things like advocating for violence against civilians: https://transparency.fb.com/policies/community-standards/dan...