South Pole Medevac (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: South Pole Medevac (2016)

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Post by sokoloff » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 9:13 AM UTC

RugnirViking wrote: post #15

sokoloff wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many times the government can’t hire employees they need (unable to pay them a competitive salary or otherwise attractive career prospects) so can’t bring it in house. Then, cost-plus arises because a company has to cover overhead and leave a profit, otherwise why would they bother? (Cost plus makes sense when you’re not sure enough of the requirements to write a fixed-price contract and then get change-ordered to de…

But aren't they explicitly paying the cost of those employees' competitive salaries?

Yes, but not via the GS pay schedule: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/calculator

Re: South Pole Medevac (2016)

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Post by southernplaces7 » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 9:19 AM UTC

safety1st wrote: post #19

maxlin wrote: post #12

While reading this I realized this is exactly the kind of form that makes up many of the YouTube videos I end up watching, with just a good narrator voice and any amount of editing this would be good content. I do also get the opposing point of many people liking written content a lot more though...

I'm thankful that this fun read was NOT a YouTube video - this way I don't have to sit through ads!

Adblocker. Nice simple solution and goodbye bullshit YouTube ads.

Re: South Pole Medevac (2016)

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Post by safety1st » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

southernplaces7 wrote: post #22

safety1st wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thankful that this fun read was NOT a YouTube video - this way I don't have to sit through ads!

Adblocker. Nice simple solution and goodbye bullshit YouTube ads.

That's very much in question now. I can no longer watch YouTube videos when I have an ad blocker extension installed. Instead I just get a warning that I'm violating their ToS and need to disable my ad blocker.

YouTube has been rolling this anti-feature out slowly to more people for the past few months. It will presumably hit everyone sooner or later.