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The gaslighting here post-Trump is insane. I’m not going to pretend that “no white or Asian males” wasn’t standard policy during the DEI hysteria. Pretending DEI was “just all about merit!” is so absurdly revisionist. Pleaseeee
I'm a white male and I got plenty of jobs. Perhaps you just lack qualifications or soft skills.
NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
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They sent one to the municipality of Stockholm. The majority leader in Stockholm responded by suggesting they could just turn off the water and sewer system for the embassy :P
I thought HN User burnte was being hyperbolic in the assertions that post put forth. Then I read a few articles. sigh. I mean, I guess we'll try to find competent and sane leaders again in 4 years. I don't know? There's not much else we can do at this point if this is the level of irrationality you're dealing with. I'll add in way of explanation to non-US citizens that in the US, we've always had a fixation on certai…
>Still monumentally irrational behavior, but I just wanted to offer some explanation of the national psychology driving these kinds of non-sensical actions.
I don't quite understand what is irrational and non-sensical in such behavior. It is quite expected, rational and natural.
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#593"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 awards." I wonder if doge is using ML systems to do this kind of review in a far more centralized way across all of government. With the kind of data they have -- obtained by extra-legal…
I know someone who is the CIO of a federal agency. DOGE used scapy to analyze job descriptions and grants. Yes to ML, but still done as a blunt force instrument.
> DOGE used scapy to analyze job descriptions and grants.
Scapy, the network packet library?? How does one apply network-packet analysis to job descriptions and grants???
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We elected the Prez and Senate majority who appointed 3 SC justices, "flipping" the Court hard right. So yeah, we own that too :/
After the head of the senate refused to let the president submit a new SC justice.
The head of the senate was elected, so presumably his actions reflected the wishes of his constituents.
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>idiocracy It doesn't even fit that, it's worse. In Idiocracy President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho actually chose to find educated / smart people to make decisions. In this setup it's all politicians and political hangers on making decisions about things they seem to have limited education on what they manage.
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Must be why you pay for college right, no demand otherwise they’d be paying you!
I think you messed up your grammar which makes the sentence hard to read but I think what you're getting at is right. College is a service, which is why you pay for it. If it didn't provide value, nobody would use it. Free college is a danger because there's no good way to assess its market value or whether we need it at all. It's only by adding value that we create wealth, and some of these NSF grants are just jobs…
> Free college is a danger because there's no good way to assess its market value or whether we need it at all.
You should figure out why free college is so successful for Germany.
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#597MAGA, turning back America into the dark ages.
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> There are absolutely not going to be free and fair elections 4 years from now. That's overly alarmist. The one thing the US has going for it when it comes to elections is that they are run by the states, not by the federal government, which insulates them from a lot of possible election meddling. Things like the SAVE Act are incredibly concerning, though. It's unclear if the worst provisions of it are even constitu…
Would you have believed a few months ago that the US government would be trying to strong-arm foreign nations who are nominally allies into compliance with its policy preferences? Here's another recent example of that: https://www.dw.com/en/france-voices-shock-at-us-calls-to-dro... I have been warning for years (often here on HN) that the US risks tilting into a failed state due to political extremism, and its genera…
>Would you have believed a few months ago that the US government would be trying to strong-arm foreign nations who are nominally allies into compliance with its policy preferences?
What do you mean? Hasn't the USA pretty much ALWAYS done this?
>The whole hysteria about illegal immigrants is based on the specious claim that one party is importing them wholesale and somehow converting them into voters to steal elections from conservatives forever.
In fact, the whole hysteria is based on the existence of tens of millions of illegal immigrants who are committing huge numbers of crimes and are systematically discriminated against because of their illegal status. And when your political opponents so loudly try to deny such an obvious for everyone problem, it is stupid not to take advantage of it.
I don't know, maybe I don't understand American politics, but from the outside everything seems pretty clear to me.
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#599I 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…
It's also a relatively fragile pipeline. People can't just wait a few years when they hit transition points; universities have already massively curtailed their enrollment for the incoming graduate class because of their attempts to completely shut off grants both new and existing, new PhDs are going to have a tough time getting Post Doc positions and post docs are going to have a hard time getting faculty positions. All those people need jobs so they'll have to either find temporary work and hope to get back on the track after that (competing against all the people who had to do the same over the next 4 years unless they're stopped soon) or go overseas.
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#600I know some smart people voted for Trump. What do they think of this?