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This has to be parody
31·12 hours agodeleted by creator
21·12 hours agoRight, it just seems like when you say, “that’s not the way the government usually receives a product”, that you are implying there’s something wrong with the way they received this product.
It just seems so unrelated to what you deal with (scientific studies vs software products) that it isn’t even worth mentioning.
In what you’re describing, the government pays for the software, then uses the software as they see fit. Probably includes service contracts that last for a year or so past dev completion.
Well, according to the Washington Post article, the government did not provide compensation for this. It seemed to me like this company developed this on its own and is allowing the government to use it to help people, but just wants 5 years of profiting off this before it goes public and is used by other private for profit weather companies.
Again, I’m not saying this is great, but the amount of rage in the comment section does not match what is actually happening.
From the original Washington post story
The agreement signed in 2020 by NOAA and the company enabled the agency to collaborate with the firm but does not allow the government to provide compensation. It states HCCA forecasts are “trade secrets and confidential information” that “shall not be publicly disclosed or disseminated” for a period of five years from the effective date of the agreement. The terms of the agreement were released to The Washington Post in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
This doesn’t sound so bad from the government’s perspective…
RenaissanceRe developed a piece of technology that the government wanted to use (for free) in their own hurricane model. The only way RenaissanceRe would allow this is if the government kept the models private for 5 years.
The government’s use of this data would help it to respond and prepare local governments for hurricanes. Keeping the data private for 5 years is the only way of getting it, so this is better than not having the data.
Maybe it’s a little shitty on RenaissanceRe‘s part, but it’s no different than healthcare companies keeping patents for a number of years knowing that their medicines could save lives if it were cheaper and more available.
Edit: Washington Post source
“We brought many, many wagons of resources,” he said, without really describing what those resources were beyond a tanker of gasoline and some water.
I wonder who paid for that.
8·1 day agoI think for a lot of people, the economy was better during Trump’s presidency than Biden’s.
These people are ignorant to the fact that Trump inherited Obama’s economy and could literally coast for 4 years and the economy would not change.
He left Biden with a shit show post Covid which also included a massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy which in no way would pay for itself.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
“I have a solution. Just visit c/fuckcars for details. Delete the current city and start over”
141·2 days agoAll
Of Apple’sFoldableiPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creasesftfmocd
Or will you lie awake with your eyes closed for an hour?
This one of those fancy glasses that is no longer see through once you lock the door? That would be a genius way of telling which toilets are empty.
There needs to be government protection of your DNA, but the government probably doesn’t want that
4·4 days agoMy cat would want that lid shut
They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.
To be funny? If I was a teacher I would totally have something like this up.