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Post by infecto »

abduhl wrote: post #566
infecto wrote: post #527

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My experience with projects and AP in general. ~$2mm across 70 liens without any split between contractors vs spacex is not that interesting. Did not look like they even accounted for a chain of liens based on the same original unit of work. The report came out in 2024 and the count and $ sum was from 2019, so over 5 years including COVID years. During COVID liens jumped quite a bit and on projects that span multiple…

There are disputes about payment on lots of projects I've worked on. That wasn't your claim. You claimed that liens were filed and perfected on "most" jobs, and that is not my experience.

And I said that was my experience that liens often crop up and the scale of these were not out of the norm especially on the project size and timeline. After all the project is actively being used and some of these are not purely new construction related. Boo.

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Post by danielheath »

singleshot_ wrote: post #274
danielheath wrote: post #210

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> It is completely valid to say something is illegal and unenforced. It seems somewhat vacuous to say it when it applies to every second administrative act.

Enabling act? Executive order? Administrative regulation? The Administrative Procedure Act? What is an administrative act in this context?

"action by the new US administration"?

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Post by transcriptase »

encoderer wrote: post #569
ModernMech wrote: post #567

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How about instead of questioning me personally we focus on the discussion at hand? My personal politics don't matter, but since you're making it about that, I'm a leftist so I don't see how it's hard to believe I don't agree with Biden on most things. Like most people on HN, I don't comment about politics here often, but I made my displeasure known at the time in other social circle. I'm here now, as I think most peo…

The last time democrats wielded this much power they created the new deal. The last time republicans wielded this much power we became a global power. Both Roosevelts. Both hated by their opposition. History looks kindly on both. Trump is not a Roosevelt, but in a way neither were they in their day. I’m a centrist. I believe the greatest living president is Clinton and it’s not even close. I hope leftsts become pragm…

Wait you believe the greatest living president is the one responsible for the whole concept of “if we make China rich they’ll become a friendly democracy”?

The policies that backfired so spectacularly that the working class voted in Trump for some degree of reversal?

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Post by skinnymuch »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #314
scarface_74 wrote: post #277

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How do you explain North Korea? And there is always prison labor that you can depend on. Especially with private prisons. Prison labor is already being used to fight wildfires in LA for instance and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. That’s cheap labor and another benefit it’s all those “drug dealing thugs” anyway.

Fair point. North Korea is the one that I can't explain.

Maybe looking at North Korea through the eyes of western propaganda is the issue. Not that North Korea isn’t explainable.

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Post by skinnymuch »

scarface_74 wrote: post #277
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #226

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Sure they do. And to do that, they need a functioning society, at least functioning well enough to produce the things that the military and the police need and want. (And that means that the police can't steal too much from people.) A dictatorship can't be just a thugocracy. It has to keep society running, perhaps not up to western capitalist standards, but at least above the point of collapse.

How do you explain North Korea? And there is always prison labor that you can depend on. Especially with private prisons. Prison labor is already being used to fight wildfires in LA for instance and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. That’s cheap labor and another benefit it’s all those “drug dealing thugs” anyway.

North Korea functions fine for the constraints it is in. The people (rightfully imo) don’t view their government the way western propaganda states.

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Post by IAmGraydon »

numpad0 wrote: post #369
toast0 wrote: post #293

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> Not an American, but the reported resignation process of just sending arbitrary content email with subject "resign" to "hr@opm.gov" feels like the real aim is to collect emails and response time data to establish cluster system health metric to determine which nodes can be murdered safely. Is that all it takes? Think they check DKIM and SPF?

It's all completely crazy. There are rumors that some of offer emails didn't pass DMARC in the first place. Reportedly it started with someone from xAI showing up at an OPM physical location with a computer to plug into the network. People calling it coup or analogizing the ops team to Chinese Red Guards aren't exaggerating.

You have a source for these rumors, I'm sure?

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Post by numpad0 »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #577
numpad0 wrote: post #369

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It's all completely crazy. There are rumors that some of offer emails didn't pass DMARC in the first place. Reportedly it started with someone from xAI showing up at an OPM physical location with a computer to plug into the network. People calling it coup or analogizing the ops team to Chinese Red Guards aren't exaggerating.

You have a source for these rumors, I'm sure?

I said rumors?

e: https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1if91mn/opm_fork_i...

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Post by JackYoustra »

ggreer wrote: post #146
JackYoustra wrote: post #108

Who knows how evenly spread it is? It may be that each service gets better, it may be all services stay the same except for, say, NRO, and we miss a nuclear center being built.

I'm guessing you meant the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not the National Reconnaissance Office. Considering that since the NRC was created in 1975, no nuclear plant license initially submitted to them has begun commercial operations, I think it would be difficult to further impede progress.[1] I have no clue whether these buyouts will be beneficial or not. It really depends on how government responsibilities are st…

I meant National Reconnaissance Office - missing a nuke plant being built for weapons in another country. I would be very happy for a more accommodating civilian environment in the US.

And if we don't know if it'd be beneficial... idk, I kinda like my life? It can get really really bad? Maybe we shouldn't blindly cut and think about it?

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