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by tonymet 879 days ago
NPS is hosting this data on AWS , a private vendor. And NPS (ultimately taxpayers) pay for every query.

So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?
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anon7725 879 days ago
> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

I will make that trade every day of the week if it means access continues to be through a standard protocol (HTTP) and not beholden to any particular vendor.

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dragonwriter 879 days ago
> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

Addressed in a comment in another subthread, which I know you are aware of since you responded to it, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086270

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