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No, DOGE only recommended personnel and contract changes within various agencies. Trump promised not to touch entitlements and to increase military spending. Note this was not the …

Two arguments that have so far, been talking completely past each other with no desire to understand each other: 1) efficiency means "use software to identify and cut federal progr…

Entitlements and debt payments are ~60% of the budget and the entire defense expenditure is ~12%

While I agree with the sentiment that SpaceX today is not worth anywhere near 1T+, it's worth understanding that: a) SpaceX is currently trading at ~>1.5T in secondary markets and …

Feels risky to push the S-1 a day before the latest starship launch. If there is a catastrophic failure OR a perfect success it feels like it would be material here. Also I’m conce…

Because their job, definitionally, is to increase profit. If you increase efficiency, you've done your job well. The people who hire and fire CEOs care primarily about this metric.…

By that measure anyone who manages employees must be a psychopath. You must consider employees as a resource, in both the positive way (these are my teammates and owners of my comp…

> This is the kind of thinking that has resulted in an economy where losses are socialized and gains are privatized Socializing losses is definitionally a byproduct of government a…

They are, and being a resource does not make something less valuable. A nuclear bomb and Jesus Christ are both resources and capital. The denotation is not demeaning.

Obviously a stupid thing for a leader to say about his own employees but I think getting emotionally upset about this statement is also pretty silly. Having employees represents de…

"I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that anyone who wants a job in tech should get one" I understand your point, but this is the least bad world we're in. If you mandated no-…

Huge gulf between "sometimes you need a job" and "employees are pigs to the slaughter". "I've gone from making plenty of money to 100k+ in debt and having less money in the bank th…

no no no you have to ignore that people like the product, its more important to mock production manufacturing from the armchair. I personally don't like the cybertruck and wish the…

I think you have to squint pretty hard to think that's the case in software engineering. LA Times suggests there are 6.9 million job openings (1). I don't think it's reasonable to …

Awesome project! We need more eBPF projects, and congrats on launching. Assuming I hijack a production pod, can I not just make an http call to myself with the `kloak:...` secret a…

The initial modern flat earth movement was absolutely trolling, no doubt about it. But as the myth grew, enough grifters and actual idiots glomed onto the idea that it became what …

Genuinely: regulation. Every other benefit is conceptual at best. If SpaceX controls the entire heavy launch market _and_ they control data-centers in space, then absolutely no one…

Technically if it takes 500 years and $17T it is still possible within "years" and "billions"

"If it's going to be made legal, it needs to be justified" is troubling - it's supposed to work the other direction: unless justified, it should be _legal_. I agree with your senti…

9950X3D2? AMD, who is making you name your products like this? At some point just give up and name the chip a UUID already.

0.5% increase in credit delinquency rates over 3 years feels... underwhelming. I'm not a gambler and I personally find gambling morally questionable and intellectually embarrassing…

Big fumble to be unaware how this offhand comment would be taken out of context. He’s clearly saying “lots of important things consume energy” not “let’s replace humans with GPUs” …

You do have to hand it to crypto, it does enable "the great sort" quite effectively. Its more or less like an organic bug-bounty system sans morality.

The people who got offended at the 2011 campaign are not the same people who are offended at this 2025 campaign. In the united states, if you do anything , someone, somewhere, will…