US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene theregister.com 49 points by rntn 16 hours ago
sieste 7 hours ago This is only worth the "outrage" if the predictions of the proprietary model contradicted the publicly available models.
hi-v-rocknroll 10 hours ago Public-private "partnerships". This is just one of a litany of perverse side-effects of letting for-profit corporations subsume government functions. wordpad25 8 hours ago Profit gives incentive for development and competition. It also saves a ton of money for tax payers.Mismanagement of these partnerships isn't representative of this type of deal structures in general. A butt load of public works are funded this way. azemetre 2 hours ago Why would profit save money for tax payers? You now just introduced an entirely worthless layer that was wants to extract money. FireBeyond 9 hours ago And weather is particularly insidious for it - witness many attempts to lobby to prevent free weather forecasts of any kind, not just emergency, so that private companies could profit from republishing that data.https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-i...
wordpad25 8 hours ago Profit gives incentive for development and competition. It also saves a ton of money for tax payers.Mismanagement of these partnerships isn't representative of this type of deal structures in general. A butt load of public works are funded this way. azemetre 2 hours ago Why would profit save money for tax payers? You now just introduced an entirely worthless layer that was wants to extract money.
azemetre 2 hours ago Why would profit save money for tax payers? You now just introduced an entirely worthless layer that was wants to extract money.
FireBeyond 9 hours ago And weather is particularly insidious for it - witness many attempts to lobby to prevent free weather forecasts of any kind, not just emergency, so that private companies could profit from republishing that data.https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-i...
This is only worth the "outrage" if the predictions of the proprietary model contradicted the publicly available models.
Public-private "partnerships". This is just one of a litany of perverse side-effects of letting for-profit corporations subsume government functions.
Profit gives incentive for development and competition. It also saves a ton of money for tax payers.
Mismanagement of these partnerships isn't representative of this type of deal structures in general. A butt load of public works are funded this way.
Why would profit save money for tax payers? You now just introduced an entirely worthless layer that was wants to extract money.
And weather is particularly insidious for it - witness many attempts to lobby to prevent free weather forecasts of any kind, not just emergency, so that private companies could profit from republishing that data.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-i...