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>Imagine if the NSA was staffed only with residents of NYC

Bad analogy. Israel aggressively imports tech/engineering/science talent from the global Jewish diaspora.

I think it might actually be a pretty good analogy. Doesn't NYC (along with SV and maybe a few other parts of the country) do the same?

The NSA staffed only with residents of NYC would probably look very different from the NSA staffed only by residents of the state of Michigan.

I think NSA is mostly staffed with residents of Maryland. Technically.

In the sense that most people move there as part of being hired, yes. The though experiment is to consider the result of restricting recruiting for NSA staff to only NYC/Michigan.

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