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matthewdgreenyesterday at 7:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

Who exactly do you think staffs this part of a science institute? Bureaucracy is just another word for the kind of well-staffed administrative system that can handle these tasks.


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fallingknifeyesterday at 9:29 PM

I think a lot of the objections here aren't really bureaucracy in terms of government employees doing things. A lot of what people mean when they complain about "government bureaucracy" is really that it often seems to be 20 people taking 6 months to do something that should take 5 people 6 weeks. So discussions on this tend to get confusing.

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8noteyesterday at 8:43 PM

the administrative parts - managers and approvers, aren't doing the science or the application thereof.

a couple university students in a van going around releasing flies every 10 miles is not a bureaucracy, nor a stand in for a bureaucracy

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