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DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by throwaway290 »

marcusb wrote: post #532
throwaway290 wrote: post #524

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I wouldn't. I use a throwaway for multiple years myself lol. And he or she could just use some friend's anonymous account. And I like how you request good faith review of a guy who is part of the team busy dismantling US government from the inside. Like who would even think to review that if not because of it. What matters is is it correct or not.

I think you're bending over backwards here to rationalize this 'review'. Assuming this person does use throwaway accounts as you suggest, you'd have to believe that in February of last year, they were busy writing a dice-guessing game and a rock-paper-scissors implementation and in February of this year, they are experienced enough to write a lengthy critique of the architecture of someone else's project. A review, b…

> you'd have to believe that in February of last year, they were busy writing a dice-guessing game and a rock-paper-scissors implementation

Or teaching their kid. Or it was their friend. Etc.

You're bending over backwards to judge it on reputation in a case where there would not be one. If it's nonsense on merit then criticize that

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Post by rtkwe »

orochimaaru wrote: post #426
rtkwe wrote: post #394

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And conveniently gutting agencies that are or were soon to be thorns in Elon's side. FAA and EPA were annoying him around SpaceX's Starship test launches, CFPB would be annoying for his future everything app plans for Twitter, etc.

Maybe. But none of those make him as much money as Tesla which is in the dumps with all the shenanigans. From a motivation perspective it seems more like rank stupidity than Machiavellian.

It doesn't seem rational but he's not exactly been acting that way for a while, he's made a pretty hard right turn that was always going to damage Tesla's main market.

Also if Twitter/X became a payment and banking platform that's a huge revenue source that could dwarf Tesla.

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Post by pluc »

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #15
pluc wrote: post #9

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> it's fun to watch Watching the misery of others makes me feel ill.

Watching the misery of a nation who have been hiding behind the second amendment for decades to defend mass slaughter and who now won't lift a finger to get out of authoritarian decisions and an oppressive regime is delicious hypocrisy. I can't wait for dessert.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by pluc »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #63
MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #15

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> it's fun to watch Watching the misery of others makes me feel ill.

Don’t agree with the OP how it’s fun to watch, but you have to acknowledge how citizens of basically every other country feel after being made fun of for the past few months. I have close relatives living in the states, and I feel bad for them. But your own government has been belittling your neighbours across both of your borders and calling them weak. I’m not going to say that the government does not deserve some o…

We aren't being made fun of, we are being threatened with annexation and unprovoked economic warfare by an administration with collective the intellect of a public toilet. The entire world has lost respect for the US and I for one am glad. And before you say what they all say, "we're not all like that", you're all complicit until you run them out of the country.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by roywiggins »

grandempire wrote: post #434
Terr_ wrote: post #431

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> What data in a federal agency could the chief executive not have authorization to access? Personally? For starters, he can't access anything the Legislature's laws say he can't. The Executive is there to implement the law, and that includes obeying them him/her-self. A President telling other people to break the law on his behalf by threatening to fire them is also a crime of extortion.

> he can't access anything the Legislature's laws say he can't. Can the legislature make rules for the president without constitutional amendment? I am interested- I’ll see if I can find examples.

war powers resolution

Also, it's a federal crime for the president to direct the IRS to audit someone: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7217

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by e40 »

dfedbeef wrote: post #111

The CEO of Tesla and Space-X; a self-proclaimed high IQ individual, an alleged programmer, has apparently hired a straight-up script kiddie to their elite delta force of technical government downsizers.

You are discounting the possibility that he wants them to wreak havoc and cause the systems to fail. The Republican dream is for government to fail and be privatized. What better way for government to fail?

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by e40 »

DaSHacka wrote: post #417
declan_roberts wrote: post #257

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They were given a blanket pardon dating back to 2014. No crime even listed!

Sounds like another administration I know....

Ah, yes, the "both sides" argument. Yes, the Biden and Trump2 administrations are just the same. Move along...

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by Suppafly »

dragonwriter wrote: post #433
captainkrtek wrote: post #427

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Yea clearly AI with the keyword bolding, numbered arguments, and so on. Feel like lots of AI produced content follow this structured response pattern.

It's uses a simple, purpose-focused template of a type that is a common recommendation for clear communication, outline numbering, and highlights keywords using monospaced text, as is common practice in technical writing. None of that is unusual for a human, especially writing something that they know is going to be high visibility, to do. Modestly competent presentation is now getting portrayed as an "AI tell".

>Modestly competent presentation is now getting portrayed as an "AI tell".

This. Someone on a reddit gamedev sub the other day was showing where his game got review bombed because his own description of his game used good descriptions and bulleted lists. It seems like anytime a bulleted list is used now, people assume it's because of AI.

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Post by op00to »

drusepth wrote: post #461
captainkrtek wrote: post #445

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I’m not arguing that it’s unusual for humans to write in this manner, but when you use something like chatgpt with some frequency and see that as a common response template it’s an obvious pattern..

People say emdashes are a signal that something's from chatgpt also — yet people forget that the cliches or patterns of LLMs are learned from real-world patterns. What is common in something like ChatGPT has a good chance to also be common outside of it, and _lots_ of false positives (and false negatives) are bound to creep up frequently when trying to do any sort of pattern-based "detection" here.

I’ve never encountered emdashes in emails from my colleagues before ChatGPT was available, and it’s obvious now where there are emdashes, the content is at least in part AI generated. Same with semicolons. Yes, proper grammar and syntax use semicolons but in most casual business communication those rules are modified for simplicity.

Re: DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower

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Post by op00to »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #413
stevenwoo wrote: post #287

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Any guesses for best possible interpretion? The Russians have infiltrated their PCs with keyloggers and DOGE are working from insecure open networks. The worst possible interpretation is straightforward - they are working for the Russians as agents and let the Russians in or installed the keyloggers for Russia.

How dumb would Russian hackers be to not use some kind of vpn? My friend who lives in Russia says that without vpn he can not access majority of USA sites so he has it always on be default. Something to is not right or these people are very very dumb.

They want to be seen. What are you gonna do about it? What jurisdiction do you have over Russian nationals?
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