Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees

Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by hk1337 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:37AM (#43231471)

I key difference and qualifier is a private company CAN have the same amount of waste but not necessarily and like modeless mentioned, private companies can fail and we can move the services to another.

It's guaranteed the federal government is going to have waste and be very difficult to change because you cannot let it fail.

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by LocalH on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:27AM (#43232051)

Why do we need to stamp out "waste"? A bit of waste is inevitable, and is human. Excessive waste, sure. But I think Musk's DOGE goal is to stamp out all waste to 0, and that is simply impossible.

For example, the only way not to waste any food whatsoever, is not to eat. It is inevitable there will be some small portion of food wasted.

Chasing perfect efficiency is a fool's errand, since humans are not perfect.

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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by shinryuu on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:48PM (#43237772)

Also where some people see waste, other see redundancy and slack in the system, which creates resilience.

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