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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by winrid »

motorest wrote: post #316
winrid wrote: post #302

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> Who is incompetent in this list? The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully." You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding…

> Do you really know, though? I don't think so.

Yeah because they already found a lot of issues.

If they can't figure it out then who can or will? 50yo career developers with nothing to gain for challenging the status quo?

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by winrid »

amrangaye wrote: post #373
motorest wrote: post #316

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> Who is incompetent in this list? The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully." You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding…

+1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far more complex than that, even for small countries.

You don't need to type +1, there's a button for that.

Also, it must not be that complicated since they have already discovered tons of waste. They don't have to understand the whole thing, even 10% might be enough to be useful.

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Post by btreecat »

rayiner wrote: post #272
btreecat wrote: post #175

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> With DACA, Obama unilaterally decided not to enforce laws duly enacted by congress. > > So what keeps Trump from unilaterally deciding not to spend money duly appropriated by congress? I had to think about this. What's the point/goal of giving the power of the purse to Congress if it's actually just a slush fund? If Congress can allocate money for the courts, but the executive is the one tasked with execution (DOJ)…

I think the issue is Congress enacting a slush fund and then getting mad that the executive is treating it as such. Congress does have the authority to direct spending, but doesn’t always do so. Here’s an example appropriation for USAID: > development assistance > For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of sections 103, 105, 106, 214, and sections 251 through 255, and chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign As…

It could choose to direct the same billion to DOE, or FCC instead and end up with very different outcomes.

Let's assume it is all one giant slushfund for the executive. What now enables checks on the slush funds use?

If Congress says "here's 10 billion to spend on X and Y but not on Z. And the executive says "nah, I'm going to actually not spend it on X, but Y and Z sure." So Congress says "ok here's half as much so you can't spend it on Z "

Executive replies "now I spend it all on Z"

Congratulations you've discovered a defunding spiral I guess?

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Post by btreecat »

jandrewrogers wrote: post #378
tomrod wrote: post #270

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Cite the regs. Cure what you feel is inaccurate.

This isn’t a serious request. The ability of authorities to grant arbitrary people access to classified information has been the law of the land forever. If you are unfamiliar with this then you are not in a position to make a credible argument. I am not going to play a game of “fetch a rock” with someone incapable of cursory research. This is my world, I know how it works.

> This is my world, I know how it works.

"Trust me bro"

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Post by pimlottc »

spdgg wrote: post #151
pimlottc wrote: post #42

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I have no idea what this means.

Uniparty probably references the fact that D and R parties have maintained a status quo and only differentiate themselves through inconsequential arguments. Kleptocracy in the way those Congress members have colluded to give money to their benefactors (unjust wars, subsidizing bank failures, subsidizing health insurance companies that screw most of us). It's not mysterious.

What are the “2 issues”? Why do they need to “restore” their “stranglehold” when every president for the past 100+ years has been either a Democrat or a Republican?

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Post by ctrlp »

ojbyrne wrote: post #245
ctrlp wrote: post #108

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Technically this was superseded and USAID was legally established by statute in the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 [1]. Perhaps you forgot to take notes when that happened. 1. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12500

Hence the appropriate use of the word "Technically"

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Post by ctrlp »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #113
ctrlp wrote: post #70

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Democracy in the US is well defined, even if someone does not understand it. Simplified, the President executes laws written by Congress via the Executive branch. Congress passes laws that must agree with the US Constitution. The Judicial branch arbitrates disputes by interpreting the US Constitution. The Constitution can be changed per Article V.

Only a disinfo bot could be so deliberately wrong.

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by ctrlp »

rdtsc wrote: post #377
tomrod wrote: post #354

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Now ask the question -- if Trump hadn't amplified allegations of this community as illegal immigrants eating dogs and cats, would they have been harassed and threatened? To me, the counterfactual clearly points to no. The Harris/Trump debate gave a set of clear accusations on film, so many that the denizens of the internet made several clever remixes to fight bullies with humor. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l…

> if Trump hadn't amplified allegations of this community as illegal immigrants eating dogs and cats, would they have been harassed and threatened? Agree you're probably right. I never watched that debate, thanks for the clip. I won't watch it further I didn't like either one of them too much. I did like the remix though, I am sure there are plenty of more of those. But it seems that group is being sued and that's ho…

Don't bother joking with serial abusers of good faith on HN. They don't have a sense of irony. It's likely congenital.
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