[throwayEngineer]

>often we rip on government agencies from our perch on...Hacker News, when we really have no idea what's going on.

In a single department, we don't know.

As a whole, it's been shown over and over that like any organization, government becomes corrupt.

Between defense and universities, I've heard depressing ancedotes as well.

It's lucky and temporary you had a good experience.

[dractori]

That seems like a pretty cynical perspective to me. Like if Edison had said "it's been shown over and over that electric light bulbs don't work" after the first couple hundred experiments didn't pan out.

[throwayEngineer]

In every country, in every world, in every decade of humanity, in every department.

But this time will be different.

Very interesting take.