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

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Post by collingreen »

throw0101c wrote: post #83
maxerickson wrote: post #70

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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?

> Succeed at what? Dismantling government. Look up the "network state": * https://thenetworkstate.com/preamble > All of these men see themselves as the heroes or protagonists in their own sci-fi saga. And a key part of being a “technological superman” — or ubermensch, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would say — is that you’re above the law. Common-sense morality doesn’t apply to you because you’re a sup…

I'm so mad you just injected the term broligarch into my brain.

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Post by drivingmenuts »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #340
lesuorac wrote: post #175

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Is life really that much better for billionaires of today than kings of last millennium? Sure you can acquire a private fleet of jets and cars now. But given that you rarely if-ever drive them it's no different than a fleet of rare animals. Sure you can play video games and watch sports on TV but is that really much better than watching sports from a private suite? I will conceded that their life expectancy has basic…

In fact things are worse for them today. In Versai it was the norm for the king to take a dump in a bucket in front of the whole court. Today's billionaires have to pay people to watch them do it and have to keep it hush hush.

Then they're idiots, because in today's society, it's not difficult to find someone who will absolutely enjoy watching you take a dump. The problem is finding someone who's not going to enjoy it so much it becomes uncomfortable.

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Post by LPisGood »

kbutler wrote: post #368
LPisGood wrote: post #360

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But the democrat appointed heads had all the power?

The problem with a persistent bureaucracy is that it selects for bureaucrats in favor of perpetuating and expanding the bureaucracy. So a political appointee who wants to expand government finds willing allies. An appointee who wants to reduce government finds opposition. The association of individual political parties with those positions is more variable.

The American federal government has more or less the same number of employees as it did in the 1970s.

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Post by calvinmorrison »

dang wrote: post #330
calvinmorrison wrote: post #225

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. 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.

These?

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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

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Post by ygjb »

huang_chung wrote: post #314
chris_wot wrote: post #140

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The problem is, compiling the list like he has, and being on the DOGE team, makes it all very, very suspicious. And it is sensitive data - even if it is open. Those are important infrastructure locations.

> And it is sensitive data - even if it is open. This is literally contradictory. Data does not become sensitive because some random on HN says so. You are speaking with authority but have no idea what you are talking about.

Well, yeah, not from some rando, but that's not some rando, they are an employee of the government department that is trying to gut the government. That aside, the work product that is the result of an alaysis of open data can absolutely be sensitive - not because of the open data, rather because an adversary may be able to infer intent or plans from the tools, access patterns, or outputs of that analysis.

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Post by dragonwriter »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #365
dragonwriter wrote: post #327

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> Didn’t they cancel some cancer treatment research projects? “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.

No. They actually cancelled it. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/doge-cuts-911-related-c...

Okay, yeah, the multiple ones I had heard about were NIH-funded, I had missed this at CDC (there’s been a lot of stuff going on.)

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Post by anonym29 »

kweingar wrote: post #294
anonym29 wrote: post #229

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What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

On one hand, you have a a group that is working very quickly to make irreversible changes (likely in violation of many laws) before the judiciary catches up and enjoins them. On the other hand you have an internet user calling them a bozo. De-escalating the conflict and lowering the temperature of discourse, as you suggest, massively favors the group trying to ram through these changes. If we take a deep breath and c…

Why can't you use strong language to elucidate the very real risk without degrading and insulting other people in the process?

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Post by anonym29 »

marxisttemp wrote: post #255
anonym29 wrote: post #229

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What functional, diplomatic purpose exists for calling him a "bozo"? What problems does this solve? Which tensions does this ease? Which conflicts does this stop? What sensitive government data does this un-leak? Which broken laws does this adjudicate? What usurped power is being brought back under control with this? Or is it just contributing to a one-way ratchet that only ever increases partisan polarization and ho…

How dare we call the vindictive, spiteful, name calling president currently destroying our country names! > weaponization of government against conservatives The government is clearly being weaponized against anyone who has ever opposed Trump in any way. You are in a reality tunnel.

I openly criticize the president for doing this as well. Two wrongs don't make a right. It's not helpful or productive when the president does it, and it's not helpful or productive when anyone else does it.

It just increases polarization which makes us all feel more uncomfortable and less safe. I wish we could all treat eachother with respect and decency, and I really do mean this in the most bipartisan sense possible.

Both sides do it and we'd all be better off if both sides stopped.

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Post by dang »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #374
dang wrote: post #330

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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. 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.

These? Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426

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Post by anonym29 »

marxisttemp wrote: post #335
KerrAvon wrote: post #284

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I’m really baffled by this take. How are you not understanding the basic fact that these are criminals actively performing a coup to destroy the “democratic society”, not political opponents?

We must be polite to them as they spit in our faces UwU

Actions the GOP is allowing right now have real downsides that inflict real harms on real victims. I am frustrated at them and I wish they would stop, but I recognize that insulting them and calling them names is only going to encourage them to be even less charitable in return.

Actions the left has allowed during past progressive administrations had real downsides that inflict real harms on real victims. I am frustrated at them and I wish they never would've done those things, but I recognize that insulting them and calling them names is only going to encourage them to be even less charitable in return.

It's not about being nice, it's about not deliberately and intentionally making things worse by stoking polarization for no reason other than to dehumanize and ostracize the other side.

This isn't a complicated idea, it's like mutually assured destruction: we're all better off when we all step back for a second from being pissed off and afraid... slow down... think... recognize that we all lose if we all stay on the offensive, so let's dial things down and be more diplomatic instead of intentionally continuing to make tensions and polarization worse.

Both sides have to recognize that both sides do it and both sides are better off if neither does it.

We are not the foolish prisoners in the prisoner's dilemma who are unable to communicate and thus unable to collectively work together to find win-win and avoid lose-lose. But we have to actually humanize and respect eachother in order to facilitate that dialogue, and that starts with not dehumanizing eachother.

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