Bajeezus

Its a startup. You will become fantastically rich as a founder/early employee if the startup takes over the world. You don't take over the world working a 9-5.

People entering this environment SHOULD know what they're signing up for. Its not like startups are the only jobs out there.

You're comparing a living superstar to someone who has been dead for over 40 years.

You're still incorrect. Those are "assets", the term "agent" isn't formally used anywhere in the IC

It's significantly weakening one of the US's greatest geopolitical enemies for a small fraction of the US defense budget.

Even if you don't care about the US's geopolitical aims and want to reduce the defense budget, eliminating Russia as a military threat is the best justification for reducing the defense budget and stabilizing European democracy.

An absolutely disgusting response, to the point where I don't think you read the article or have a vested interest in preventing action.

This isn't about "the US recognizing the caste system" or even about who is responsible for it. It's about preventing very real, very tangible discriminatory effects happening to people TODAY, right now. When the time comes to prevent actual, quantifiable harm, slippery slope arguments and debates about the origin of the problem help absolutely nobody.

I used to work at the Rochester LLE! I never worked on capacitor logistics, but I heard that it was a PITA to work with local utilities to get those on the grid (but nowhere near as much as the PITA to get that building zoned for Brighton in the first place)

The Google Distributed Cloud Hosted project is a non-borg port of GCP that could be run by anyone.

The mods have all the leverage. They’re literally volunteer workers, they can quit their duties with no real downsides.

Speaking from experience: You can work your ass off from a beach. If anything, I'm more likely to do so

That was true 5+ years ago, but these days I can easily name 20+ companies that pay roughly the same or more at the senior level.

Half your compensation at FAANG is name recognition for your resume.

USDS requires an SF86 now??

"Fun" fact: There is another common internal service at Microsoft called Cosmos, and it is also a database.

So now there is Cosmos, Cosmos DB, and Kosmos.

Honestly, your discouraging attitude towards negotiation is far more disgusting. Negotiation is the only tactic employees have these days for market-rate compensation adjustments.

Depends on the level of clearance you're going for. TS/SCI w/ Full-Scope Polygraph (the highest intelligence community level) covers the last 10 years, with a heavy emphasis on your activities in the last 5. They'll interview friends, employers, teachers, neighbors, etc. going back 5 years (but you get to pick the ones to be interviewed). They'll also run FBI background checks on you and your family (including extended family) and you'll be required to turn in financial info annually.