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> cut everything, recklessly, indiscriminately Mostly discriminately, tbh.
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MITRE has been hit with DOGE-branded cuts[0] earlier this month. CISA has been impacted[1]. It seems reasonable to assume they were involved in this. 0 - https://virginiabusiness.com/nova-govcon-firm-mitre-to-lay-o... 1 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...
That’s a pretty big leap. Ending a 25-year contract and laying off ~600 employees are two very different scales of impact. While DOGE-related cuts might have influenced some decisions, assuming they directly caused DHS to initially let the CVE contract lapse seems like a stretch. Just because two things happen near each other doesn’t mean one caused the other - this feels more like another chance to take a swing at D…
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Vampire capitalism. They want civilization to break down so they can offer a solution for profit. The enemies of all people and life on the planet are a tiny group of oligarchs and their supplicants.
This isn't capitalism, any more than arson, burglary, or extortion is capitalism. Get some new material.
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For every example of privatization going wrong, there's least one example (if not two) of it going right. But serious question -- what is the difference these days anyways? Our entire government is effectively privatized anyways from the local level up to the federal. We rely on contractors for almost everything that matters. We just maintain this facade that they are not privatized.
I’ve never seen one that worked long term. The basic premise is “what was done for $X dollars with no profit motive can be done for Just for the most ready to hand example for me, PG&E in SF vs public electricity utilities on the peninsula - the privatized electricity costs twice as much per kWh - and of course it does because the PG&E CEO needs to make $17M from somewhere, the share price needs to go up etc. the ric…
I expect privatization to be a way for a politician to stuff their pockets. They'll either buy their stock before the large government contract is announced, or the corporation will kick some money back in the form of campaign contributions, or find some way to just give cash directly.
Nobody ever gets charged with insider trading because everyone that would be involved in that is in on it as well.
Or maybe I'm just cynical.
How much does CVE cost to maintain and why must the US fund the entire thing?
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This isn't capitalism, any more than arson, burglary, or extortion is capitalism. Get some new material.
Hah. I’ve been hearing this No-True-Scotsman for Capitalism for decades now. It’s what we’ve got and is widely understood as capitalism. I won’t repeat your last sentence but the sentiment is similar.
It's almost as if no economic, social, or political system known to mankind will stand up for long under a determined onslaught of corruption.
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Not defending him as a person, but he earned a bronze star serving in Iraq.
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Do you have any evidence for this at all? That they are automatically awarded? We can discuss the low bar that O's seemingly have for earning some awards, but there is no reason to misrepresent the process. And I know at least one person that was awarded a Bronze Star without the V, even thought the award was for a specific valiant action they took, it's tough to say without reading the award or being there.
Good. CVEs were the poster boy of goodharts law for the longest time. Most security vulnerabilities behind CVEs are utterly meaningless.
Ah! Another one to add to the following list: - What disease did the CDC ever prevent? - What improvement did the NHTSA ever bring to full self driving? - What improvement in airline safety did the FAA bring? - What good did FEMA do in any disasters? I don't want to quip about how their achievements are invisible because they prevented the disasters that would have brought the spotlight on them, even when they were t…
Anyway, my opinion is that CVEs have a very low signal-noise ratio and vulnerability databases in general should be revamped to try and fix that problem. The current system - I don't claim to know the root cause - is simply horrible. It could be the management, the entry requirements, some loophole perhaps, etc,. I also don't claim that this is the motive behind this move, I am just hoping it gets revamped anyway as a side effect (There's another article on HN floating around that says someone else has picked up the baton - good luck to them). I also don't care for your country's politics which you seem to be eluding to in your final paragraph.
These four years are going to be the death of all of us.
I find it a little incredible people are still talking about "four years". They tried to reject the election result and do a coup, and were rewarded for it by getting back into power. They are refusing to follow the law or the courts. They are sending people to gulags in foreign countries. All the checks and balances were destroyed last time. The party has been stripped of anyone who would fight the admin or reject t…
We are going to have elections.