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

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Post by EndShell »

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…

Most of the people that seem to be influential seem to be either Paleo-cons, Rothbardians and people that are believers in the Austrian School of Economics.

I am not an ancap because there are some major problems with their philosophy, but your analysis is just incorrect.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Lichtso wrote: post #202
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #181

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They’re calling a public figure a bozo. That’s always been fine. Name calling other HN users is against the guidelines.

> They’re calling a public figure a bozo. That’s always been fine. Not in Germany. Public insults are punishable. Doing so in a permanent way with lots of outreach (like the web is) increases the consequences.

> Not in Germany

Not sure why anyone should be emulating Germany right now.

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

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Post by pr337h4m »

This is literally nothing - visualizing an org chart using D3 (a JS dataviz library), playing around with open source geospatial datasets, and a Twitter DM downloader for personal use.

Look at the screenshots, not the description by this "politics reporter" who seems to be indulging in evidence-free witch hunts.

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

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Post by hakfoo »

analog31 wrote: post #116
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…

Afghanistan has that. Instead of landlords, they have warlords, just a different term for the same thing. Why is anybody interested in repeating that thing? I've been told that billionaires think differently than the rest of us, but I still can't fathom why someone would want to be the king of a shit hole when they could be richer as a regular citizen of a liberal democracy. Why do they hate our success?

The argument I could see is that even the least king has certain privileges that no tycoon in a democratic state offers. The obvious example I could see is just the concept of legal immunity. There's no need to deluge your critics with lawyers when the courts will simply refuse to take up objections to His Majesty. It would also presumably make an excellent "flag of convenience" for your other wealth assets- create a legal framework to formally avoid taxes and liability.

Of course, I always assumed it would be cheaper to buy a regime change in some small nation of limited economic import than to wrangle a nuclear superpower, so what do I know.

If I woke up with Elon Musk's pocketbook, given I spent way too much of my childhood playing SimCity and Civilization, I'd want to experiment with some ideas on statecraft myself. Mine run to more "WWII-style ration books as a UBI distribution medium", "we're banning cars and building so much rail that people will regularly have their arms amputated by sticking them out their apartment window and hitting a passing train" and "ripping the Berne Convention to shreds and wiping with it on livestream", but clearly YMMV.

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

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Post by tastyfreeze »

selfhoster wrote: post #176
cyanydeez wrote: post #158

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And Trump's history with that act suggests it'll go to the highest bidder, foreign or domestic

Is it OK to make baseless accusations on Hacker News now? When did that become OK?

Only if you are attacking Trump or anything his administration is doing.

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

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Post by Jtsummers »

ludicrousdispla wrote: post #191
kubectl_h wrote: post #136

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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).

This depends on their role. That more applies to people involved in contract decisions and execution (the legal/financial parts, not the doing the technical work part). For programmers, they can move back and forth relatively freely, but should go through their agency's legal office to be certain.

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Post by asveikau »

tomcam wrote: post #207
jonahbenton wrote: post #119

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

What laws are being broken?

Someone interested in filtering employees by union status seems highly suspicious to me that that someone is interested in breaking labor laws.

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

tomcam wrote: post #207
jonahbenton wrote: post #119

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

What laws are being broken?

> What laws are being broken?

In this specific case? Unclear. Will wait for the lawsuits.

In the last weeks, the DOGE bros have broken the Privacy Act of 1974 [1] and numerous court orders [2].

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

[2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/19-state-ags-file-suit-a...

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