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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

kubectl_h wrote: post #136
porphyra wrote: post #112

Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain, according to 17 U.S.C. § 105, except for classified or restricted information (but none of what he posted is classified or restricted)

Can one request all of the code this dude has written or is it as his discretion what is released to the public domain?

If they are an actual federal employee then they will need a 'cooling off' period before they can work in the private sector in an area related to their government work (I don't see that happening).

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Post by ghc »

The cynic in me thinks these kids were recruited as "useful idiots." Musk has shown he is capable of recruiting competent people, but it's pretty clear these aren't them. History has shown that it's a lot easier to radicalize and weaponize incompetent young adults whose self-image has been built up in an environment of privilege. Without personal accountability, it's a lot easier to be angry at the world for denying you the success everyone tells you that you deserve.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

papichulo4 wrote: post #182

We need politics out of here. Maybe make the line between HN and the rest of news a bit more clear.

> We need politics out of here

DOGE is a creature of Silicon Valley. Paul Graham spends his time now opining on woke [1]. One can escape base partisanship. But the political economy makes any attempt to escape politics pretend.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by FreebasingLLMs »

a12k wrote: post #177
selfhoster wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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“Bozo” is pretty lightweight for someone actively trying to destroy the foundations of this country’s government and democratic policies.

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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by bumby »

EasyMark wrote: post #125
jimmydddd wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some have said that the folks running DOGE follow an Anarcho-capitalist philosophy. According to Wikipedia, that philosophy "seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies." If so, I don't think they care if it's a "good" program or a "bad" program, they just want to reduce the size of government. Some might say, they are throwing the…

The DOGE members are tech bros who are into classic Randian libertarianism,small government that only protects money and property, and all other "public services" would be provided by private markets. They want to make government look weak and impotent so that people like Musk, Bezos, the Waltons, etc can provide those services at a premium or "fuck you". it's a downward spiral that concentrates wealth in the hands o…

Michael Lewis paints a different picture in his book “The Fifth Risk” where govt infrastructure is leveraged for private profits. Ex: AccuWeather uses NOAA data to make their products while lobbying to make the same NOAA data inaccessible to others.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by agilob »

jonahbenton wrote: post #119
porphyra wrote: post #112

Works created by U.S. federal government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain, according to 17 U.S.C. § 105, except for classified or restricted information (but none of what he posted is classified or restricted)

Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?

>humor too soon?

C'mon USA, do something funny.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by layer8 »

amarcheschi wrote: post #2

if you don't want to open twitter, here is xcancel link which i should have put as the og link https://xcancel.com/SollenbergerRC/status/189560929481046439...

HN’s policy is that one should submit the original link, hence providing a more accessible but not original link as a comment is the correct thing to do.

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by IAmGraydon »

EasyMark wrote: post #133
BoingBoomTschak wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Careful, your tinfoil hat is a bit creased.

All you have to do is look at how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket, either out of stupidity or is an actual asset that they have компромат on

I would agree something has to be going on that we're not aware of. He went to Russia in 1987 on business, met with some shady characters, came back and immediately placed a $100,000 ad in the NY Times that points fingers at other countries "taking advantage" of the US to promote the idea of US isolationism. He was not political before that trip, and since then it's been his life mission to separate us from our alliances. Now he's parroting lies directly from Putin's mouth gaslighting the world about who invaded who. He's certainly done a good job of keeping whatever it is secret, but it's pretty easy to see what's going on from his actions. Either he's been directly compromised or Russia's running a very effective influence campaign to basically brainwash certain people of influence without their direct knowledge.

BTW the ad is in this article for anyone who's interested:

https://archive.is/ATuqH

Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

FreebasingLLMs wrote: post #194
a12k wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Bozo” is pretty lightweight for someone actively trying to destroy the foundations of this country’s government and democratic policies.

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> administrative state (created during FDR) is going away

Created by FDR through acts of the Congress. DOGE is ironically recapitulating the lawlessness that tanked Sourh Africa’s economy.

Also, we’re seeing a breathless expansion of federal executive power. The administrative state isn’t going away. It’s being subsumed. The size of the government is being increased, not decreased—that’s why the GOP budget calls for $2 trillion in new deficits over ten years.

One can celebrate cost cutting. But other than USAID, there is no sign anything durable is being done. The power of the central government is being expanded in ways that should be obviously problematic for anyone thinking ahead: next cycle, a Dem President can just cancel student debts by firing everyone in loan collections and shredding the loan documents.

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