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They're essentially an internal dev/consulting shop and they needed to approach it from this stand point or they'll continue to be underwater. Every contract that IBM or Accenture, et al wins, 18F should have made the sale that they'll be there guarding the hen house as the project progresses - easy sale and easy project staffing. Branch off from there and take down small dev jobs to build mass and it'll snowball from there if managed properly.

Leadership heads need to roll, ranks thinned, and they need to focus on the mission.

It's more than fixing the technical interview process. Bottom line is western culture does not raise daughters to succeed in tech. From my own experiences 80% of the chemists I've worked with (including leadership) are female - so it's not a total failure in STEM education.

How do you reconcile this view with a life or death situation where you must kill or be killed?

Instead of hitting the soldiers who signed what they thought were reenlistment bonuses, why don't they pommel the commanding officers who presided over these "overpayments"?

Started out with an every-man appealing headline and quickly showed its stripes of being a developer funded prop 13 hit article - totally separate from the horror show environmental impact has turned into.

The examples given are completely out of whack and strawmen. prop 13 allows for effective tax increase through reassessment of value, but that reassessment is capped so when the market goes crazy people aren't driven out of their homes - the increases effectively keep pace with inflation which should handle increased outlays on part of the localities.

All living things have a beginning and end. If humans are around in 25mm years, there will no doubt be other forms of life to celebrate and enjoy.