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Yeah it’s like looking at text and saying “oh they used a word processor”.
not really, unless your word processor outputs significant portions of text for you
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I would suggest you read “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard. I don’t want to sound rude but your comment is what people say when they haven’t read anything about it. I used to make similar arguments like was at the top of your comment until I actually read some literature around it.
Which state is it about? Can't I just read history, and the news?
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Project 2025 has been an open plan for years and the level of coordination between political elites aligned with the Heritage Foundation and tech industry radicals is obvious on its face. If the goal was reducing fraud and waste, accurate accounting would be a core principle and this wouldn't happen. They aren't because it's not. Their goal was rapid destruction of the US government apparatus to prevent oversight and…
To me it "seems like" the CIA is being attacked and its extinction burst through the media it controlled for the last generation is causing a blast of hysteria. Everything published in media organizations that until recently were receiving federal funds should be viewed through that light. They're mainly mad because their gravy train stopped. I don't like the Yarvinists doing the attacking but the old regime acting l…
Half of y'all are excited cuz you seem to think you'll get to strap a nuke to your bike and screw a 15 year old razorgirl. This isn't Snow Crash, it's real life, you WILL be impacted by mass famine, unmanaged pandemics, economic depression, geopolitical balkanization, and war. These are the outcomes made possible through DOGE.
Build in public!
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Succeed at what? For example, they canceled invasive species control programs for the Great Lakes. Is it a success that they saved a modest amount of money, while letting the condition of the lakes further erode?
Didn’t they cancel some cancer treatment research projects? I am sure the Head of the health department — one that doesn’t consider measles a problem — has given his stamp of approval for that, after all, he has a whole 0 years in all tangentially related fields combined!
“Cancel” suggest more decision-making than appears to have happened, at least in the research projects I am aware of—a number had to be canceled by those running them because the unprecedented blanket payment pause notionally to evaluate programs existing programs made it impossible for them to continue operating.
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You're responding to someone who believes DOGE is getting rid of corruption in government while Musk is capturing contracts for his own companies. There's no point in responding to people like them. They aren't based in reality. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036122
Hard disagree with this take. There is certainly a purpose responding to them. Whether or not their opinion is changed comes down to them.
If the individual is trolling, which could be the case here, then responding is just feeding the troll. It encourages them.
The better thing in both cases is to ignore them. At most, respond to the comment, but not the individual, with facts (like that Musk is directing contracts to his own companies) so that others don't fall into the same fantasy land.
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It’s also to automatically deduplicate submissions of the same source. And HN does for example block archive.is for submissions, to which your argument wouldn’t apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177 You can email hn@ycombinator.com to ask about the policy.
Oh ok, it is quite useful for disambiguation. I get that
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/sollenber...
but it does when there are lots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/karpathy.
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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.