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		asdff on Nov 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goodbye, data science It was more like backlogged maintenance. Like "Ok its too wet to mow today, lets get the backhoe and finally redo the storm drain so it doesn't clog"

jrochkind1 on Nov 29, 2022 [–]

So that is maybe different. I think the "60%" we're talking about above, to me, is people doing useless work, or work whose only use is internal "political".

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