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NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by daedrdev »

alabastervlog wrote: post #296
bpodgursky wrote: post #285

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I will expand, if you need. The SS trust fund produced a surplus. Boomers then spent the entire surplus on their own deficit spending . There is no actual cash in a bank — it was put on a spreadsheet and then spent on other budget priorities — wars, military, medicaid, everything else. The SS trust fund was one of the main reasons the US could spend profligately for the past couple decades! The SS Trust Fund is NOT A…

You have fallen for propaganda aimed at getting people to not give a shit when republicans try to end Social Security. The money didn't "get spent", it's invested . If that counts as "got spent" then your savings account also "got spent" (funding loans) and your retirement accounts also "got spent" (buying bonds, treasuries, securities) so you can go ahead and sign those over to me since they're empty anyway—right? I…

The money is lent to the federal government via Treasuries. As the surplus is spent, it will directly decrease the funding for the government deficit, increasing the cost for the government to service its debt. The original poster is wrong since the surplus is real, but spending down this surplus will still cost the government a lot. And even if it didn't, Social Security will burn its entire reserve in 10 years and be forced to cut benefits by 20% in 10 years or be forced to spend trillions to maintain its current level deficit.

Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by vachina »

devwastaken wrote: post #180
ddahlen wrote: post #38

I have been in and out of the academic world my entire career. I have worked as a programmer/engineer for two universities and a national lab, and worked at a startup founded by some professors. There is huge uncertainty with the people whom I have worked with, nobody seems to be sure what is going to happen, but it feels like it wont be good. Hiring freezes, international graduate students receiving emails to self d…

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You not reading it doesn’t mean nobody reads it. A lot of things you’re enjoying NOW stands on the fundamental knowledge brought by these papers/research. You not going to school doesn’t mean the school is useless.

Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by overfeed »

ponow wrote: post #339
bilbo0s wrote: post #149

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> Tesla started without the subsidies.

It wouldn't have survived without them though. State/Federal EV tax credits & carbon credits are government subsidies, and are not a natural product of the "free market".

Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by SequoiaHope »

baxtr wrote: post #366
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #332

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Hard to declare that the earth is only 6000 years old with all those science hippies in the way. Gotta set priorities.

What do you mean when you say "only"?!

The post is a reference to religious fundamentalists that deny science and declare that god made the earth 6000 years ago. Science is an inconvenience for those wishing to make such declarations.

Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by guhidalg »

SoftTalker wrote: post #355
matwood wrote: post #264

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> They're going through every federal agency making cuts, not singling out this one in particular. That's BS. They are already bragging about raising defense spending.

Defense is squarely a government responsibility and concern. Funding research less so, not that there aren't good arguments for doing it.

The part in the constitution about "promote the general Welfare" (first sentence) definitely depends on funding research.

Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by SequoiaHope »

guywithahat wrote: post #368
zhivota wrote: post #295

I worked at two National Laboratories, Argonne and Idaho, on NSF funded internship grants. The second one turned into a full time job, again on an NSF grant. The first one was on supercomputing, writing proof of concept code for a new supercomputing operating system (ZeptoOS). The second was on the automated stitching of imagery from UAVs for military applications (at a time when this was not commoditized at all, we…

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Efficient market fallacy.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

cubefox wrote: post #255
ourmandave wrote: post #35

Last week, staff were briefed on a new process for vetting grant proposals that are found to be out of step with a presidential directive on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),... In the new structure, even if a revised proposal gets the green light from a division director, a new body whose membership has not been determined will take a fresh look to ensure it conforms to the agency’s new standard for making awa…

I think you can consider "DEI" as unfair racial discrimination even if you don't consider yourself a conservative. It's not the case that you have to agree with everything "your" side says, and disagree with everything coming from "their" side.

If you think that then you misunderstand what DEI really means. Conservatives assume black people can never be smart and therefor hiring standards must fall for DEI programs to happen.

The reality is that there are more smart black and white people capable of doing your job than you are capable of hiring. So maybe consider taking the black woman who is just as qualified so your department is no longer so lily white and male dominated.

That is all DEI is. Conservatives have just misrepresented it so badly to the public to the point where even the nonconservative public believes their lies.

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Post by mistrial9 »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #332
zhivota wrote: post #295

I worked at two National Laboratories, Argonne and Idaho, on NSF funded internship grants. The second one turned into a full time job, again on an NSF grant. The first one was on supercomputing, writing proof of concept code for a new supercomputing operating system (ZeptoOS). The second was on the automated stitching of imagery from UAVs for military applications (at a time when this was not commoditized at all, we…

Hard to declare that the earth is only 6000 years old with all those science hippies in the way. Gotta set priorities.

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Post by [deleted] »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #114
rokkamokka wrote: post #48

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The focus is robbing the treasury to give tax breaks to the rich.

Trump said yesterday he wants to raise taxes on people earning over $2.5MM[1] People on the left are going to be caught totally flat-footed if they don't pull their head out of their bubble. Trump is a populist president. He was elected by working class individuals and so far he has shown every intent of following through for them. People on the left don't recognize it because they don't recognize the tools that righ…

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Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by mlinhares »

no_wizard wrote: post #147
rjsw wrote: post #104

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This is known as "Working Towards the Führer" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#%22Working_Towards...

First I’ve heard of this. It’s quite fascinating! I have read a lot of literature on the subjects at hand and never have I seen this come up. Usually Hitler in particular is characterized as a delegator and more adept than this makes it out to be. Frankly I’m not surprised, but interesting history none the less

Gives you plausible deniability, he never actively told you to do anything, you decided to act in that way by yourself. The president keeps saying that "he doens't know", "that's up to someone else", so he isn't taking any illegal actions or directing them, the people under him are doing it themselves.
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