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NASA force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery?

Unfortunately, many American English speakers will conjugate verbs in the singular for a collective noun like "NASA", so that doesn't sound quite as perfect as it should.

We lean so hard into incorporation that we see it grammatically as an entity, rather than as multiple people behind the entity's mask.


I could be wrong but I think "NASA Force" is the name of the team, like Space Force.

Whoosh :)

> We have a $1.78T deficit

The fatal assumptions many people thinking about government spending from the outside make are that

a) money is limited

and

b) money is redistributed (~to a cause of their choice) after funding for something else gets cut


Money isn’t limited, as in we can just print more, but it comes at an inflationary cost: see the last 5 years. MMT doesn’t work.

Since money is limited, and we’re spending in a deficit, money shouldn’t be redistributed to another bad cause after something gets cut. Unfortunately, and all too often, it does.

One side cuts taxes to spend on blowing up the world’s energy market, another side raises taxes to buy votes among the people who pay 0 in taxes (or fund a study on if ducks like Mozart). They’re both wrong, and people are too blinded by the sports-team nature of politics to recognize this.


It's almost as if there are different people with different motivations and ideas about how the world should work

Bob, why the AI slop?

> anymore

Ehh…


true. HN and YC is getting worse over years.

Maybe 500 years into the future burger bun photography will be treated as a "beautiful practice" while nutrient syringes are getting shoved into our other buns.

> he(zozbot234) could also be agreeing with OP, not disagreeing.

This is how I for one understood this.


> I assume the product is big enough

Experience tells otherwise


That's crazy! I would LOVE to hear more of that.

> The bottleneck didn't disappear when AI started writing code. It moved.

AI slop is AI slopping.


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