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		stevage on Oct 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M email... Do you know any competent IT professionals who would want to work in government for that salary? No. That is why government IT is not very good. It's a terrible environment to work in, and the pay is not good compared to private sector.

niceice on Oct 25, 2023 [–]

Where does all the money go? Healthcare.gov cost $840 million, in 2014 dollars, to develop.

stevage on Oct 25, 2023 | [–]

In that case, probably a lot of external consultants. Plus that is just inherently a gigantic project with a million stakeholders etc.

langsoul-com on Oct 25, 2023 | | [–]

But there's tons of very very large projects and they surely don't cost $840m to develop.

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