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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #144

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This is just flame bait without an explanation. The spending data is already public and regularly audited, and if you want to argue kleptocracy you need to start by defining what you mean by that term, who specifically you’re referring to, and what evidence you’re basing that belief on.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #684

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent all day responding to the replies here, and then detaching them in order to save space at the top of the thread. But I just had a better idea. This is a stub comment so we have a single root to collapse the replies. This way (1) replies can stay close to their parent (the top comment) without flooding the screen with offtopicness; and (2) we can all re-experience the timeless truth of https://en.wikipedia.org…

What is the preferred approach for those of us who want fewer Trump/Musk-related posts? Other than, you know, participating in a flamewar.

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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #114

It has been a fairly common story, and part rumor, that intelligence agencies like to recruit young people active in the cyber criminal scene, and that the IT security industry also adapted this approach. They basically becomes part informer and part subject expert, especially since IT security expertise seems to be a difficult subject matter to teach in universities. When I studied IT security in university, about 1…

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Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #420

The question no one asking is why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?

I don't quite understand how they are gaining the access credentials required? Where I work, it takes days to onboard people, through standard processes. Whats happening in this case. Given the highly volatile, and legally gray, situation; I'd expect the front line people who usually grant access are at least flagging these requests to their boss, who flags to their boss etc. Is everyone up the chain just giving a sh…

When you're the president, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Especially if you're sending someone in to shut down entire departments and freeze communications.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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The question no one asking is why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?

it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Musk approaches things.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #684

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent all day responding to the replies here, and then detaching them in order to save space at the top of the thread. But I just had a better idea. This is a stub comment so we have a single root to collapse the replies. This way (1) replies can stay close to their parent (the top comment) without flooding the screen with offtopicness; and (2) we can all re-experience the timeless truth of https://en.wikipedia.org…

What is the preferred approach for those of us who want fewer Trump/Musk-related posts? Other than, you know, participating in a flamewar.

Don't click into the comments would probably be a good start.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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The question no one asking is why Elon is sending a team of teenage programmers and not a team of financial auditors if he really wanted to cut government spending?

People mentioned Elon's DOGE team is about 200 people including lawyers and accountants. I am guessing the focus on the 6 youngsters is mainly because here's a bunch of former Deloitte lawyers/accountants is not a newsworthy thing to focus on especially if your angle is to discredit the effort.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #684

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent all day responding to the replies here, and then detaching them in order to save space at the top of the thread. But I just had a better idea. This is a stub comment so we have a single root to collapse the replies. This way (1) replies can stay close to their parent (the top comment) without flooding the screen with offtopicness; and (2) we can all re-experience the timeless truth of https://en.wikipedia.org…

What is the preferred approach for those of us who want fewer Trump/Musk-related posts? Other than, you know, participating in a flamewar.

While I understand the sentiment (and support it with a lot of political content on HN) the start of this administration has an undeniable tech angle. If you don’t want to read the stuff, don’t click. But it belongs here.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

#449
post #684

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent all day responding to the replies here, and then detaching them in order to save space at the top of the thread. But I just had a better idea. This is a stub comment so we have a single root to collapse the replies. This way (1) replies can stay close to their parent (the top comment) without flooding the screen with offtopicness; and (2) we can all re-experience the timeless truth of https://en.wikipedia.org…

What is the preferred approach for those of us who want fewer Trump/Musk-related posts? Other than, you know, participating in a flamewar.

The preferred approach is (1) flag the stories you think are off-topic for Hacker News, and (2) make peace with the fact that the front page sometimes has stories that you feel don't belong there. This is true for everyone, including me. It's a consequence of the site being under conflicting constraints, and frontpage space being the scarcest resource (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Oh and (3) if you browse HN while logged in, you can always click 'hide' on a submission and the software will not show you that particular one anymore.

Re: Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

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post #433

Apparently 18 years old is old enough to be handed a rifle and sent into war but not access a database.

That 18 year old recruit goes through training and has to pass tests before they’re allowed to use that rifle. Ask a vet how much time they spent training on following orders, using force only when and how authorized, etc. and the difference will obvious. Nobody is saying that the administration can’t hire people, the objection is to bypassing all of the rules which previous administrations have followed.
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