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Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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Well if anything is true about Musk and his servant Trump, it is corruption and sending Federal Dollars to the top 1% is more important than people's lives.

To be fair to Republicans, they have wanted to privatize Social Security for decades, for exactly the reason you state. Imagine what the 2% commission for Assets under Management (AUM) looks like for a hedge fund boss when trillions of dollars could be entering those funds one day.

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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Even though Russia and China own Elon and Trump, they should be against this. Every country, including them, relies on NOAA's weather data. I imagine the end result of this is Elon being granted a contract to provide weather data through his infrastructure much like this Sovereign Wealth Fund will be used to invest in Trump-allied companies. The entire thing is a big shakedown.

China doesn't interrupt its enemies when they're making a mistake. In this case, America jumping headfirst into its own Great Leap Forward.

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes? https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea... It doesn't take more than three seconds of Googling to get your answer. No wonder American media literacy is at an all-time low.

That's not evidence? In a previous administration, a previous CEO of AccuWeather was appointed to run NOAA. This is extremely common, since who better to run a weather forecasting organisation, than someone who previously ran a weather forecasting organisation. If anything, that's evidence that even when Trump had ample opportunity to privatize NOAA, he didn't.

AccuWeather isn't a weather forecasting organisation. They merely provide an interface to data gathered by others.

Trump had zero opportunity to privatize NOAA because you can't do that via executive order furthermore that would be were it even true useless in discerning whether he or indeed others in his circle wanted to do that now.

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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The lease mentioned in the article that concerns me more is the weather radar support facility in Norman. Last time I looked into weather data, prediction quality was much worse in the places where the WSR-88D radar coverage is spotty (the West, notably the Rockies) and the models have to rely on satellites and ground sensors; and it seems like Tornado Alley will totally get screwed if the long-range radars that can see wind start to fail?

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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post #22

Even though Russia and China own Elon and Trump, they should be against this. Every country, including them, relies on NOAA's weather data. I imagine the end result of this is Elon being granted a contract to provide weather data through his infrastructure much like this Sovereign Wealth Fund will be used to invest in Trump-allied companies. The entire thing is a big shakedown.

China doesn't interrupt its enemies when they're making a mistake. In this case, America jumping headfirst into its own Great Leap Forward.

Although this is more like a Great Leap Backwards. Expect the same death toll, but on average none of the US will be more modernized or industrialized afterwards.

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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post #4

Let me guess - all weather prediction workloads now have to run on some Tesla cluster?

Also the weather shall only be produced by starlink satelites. For this they need to install approx 1Bn "special" Dishes for the gift price of just 5k$ each.

Re: Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

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post #26
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China doesn't interrupt its enemies when they're making a mistake. In this case, America jumping headfirst into its own Great Leap Forward.

Although this is more like a Great Leap Backwards. Expect the same death toll, but on average none of the US will be more modernized or industrialized afterwards.

You could pretty much say the same for the Great Leap Forward, tbh. I think people, appalled at the human consequences, tend to miss that it was also a failure in its industrialisation goals; that came later.
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