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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by aje403 on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:58PM (#16999386)
Thankfully, I’m not sure if this remains the case, I’ve read NSA salaries cap out around $150k for devs, so they might not have anybody competent enough to do anything with the data. I consider this a valid hypothesis
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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by sahil-kang on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:05PM (#16999904)
I don’t know if that salary cap is true, but these agencies have the option of hiring well-paid contractors from private firms.
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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by twothamendment on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:12AM (#17001667)
There is always someone willing to do a job, but that is one where it doesn't matter how much they want to pay me. No thanks, I don't want to know what goes on if I can't talk about it.
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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by aje403 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @08:14AM (#17006117)
There is, but if that person is doing the job and enough people say to them "hey I like your resume please let me double your salary" then the company isn't going to have great retention
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