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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by elif »

xnx wrote: post #73

Are such drastic action appropriate given the current state of the US? The US probably hasn't been this economically dominant since after WWII. Feels like Chesterton fences are getting torn up left and right by people too young and incurious to possibly understand why those fences might be there.

I think assuming that their intentions are a well functioning economy have been disproven by the rapid pace of kicking pillars out from under it.

Occams razor would instead suggest that either a recession or some other form of social instability is not an externality but an objective.

It makes me scared for what the ultimate aim is, but I think at this point it's beyond giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by a12k »

EGreg wrote: post #594

And here I thought they'd actually consider my resume. They didn't even bother looking. When DOGE first called for people to apply, they did it on X and said we can send a message to their account on X. So I actually got excited about tackling waste, and wrote this cover letter: https://magarshak.com/resume-cover-letter.php Little did I know this admin was going to be shutting down datasets from data.gov and other cr…

> Little did I know

You should have, had you done any research. This was long after Elon’s slide into anti-democratic, far right ideology. And as we now know merely weeks before he did multi Nazi salutes on stage.

This feels like people who are surprised that Trump is ticking boxes on Project 2025 despite it being out for multiple years.

There’s a pizza shop in NW DC with a basement you should investigate.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by shigawire »

mike_hearn wrote: post #351
m463 wrote: post #122

Posts here talk about the legality of this, that what they are doing is not allowed, or that they're doing something naively without understanding. But what is the goal? Maybe what goal to they think they're pursuing? This is hacker news, so I'm asking for an answer without political rhetoric.

The right is at present a coalition of conservatives, nationalist patriot types and globalist libertarians. DOGE seems to be a mix of two goals: 1. They think that the civil service has become not just openly hostile but outright dangerous to any form of Republican government, and therefore that taking direct control of the civil service infrastructure at high speed is essential to avoid being kneecapped by rogue fed…

They kneecapped themselves by being a party of opposition with no constructive ideas for decades.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by XajniN »

hansvm wrote: post #601
linuxhansl wrote: post #569

Is anyone surprised? It's not like it was a secret, and a majority of voters still voted this government in. Maybe most thought it'll be better for inflation and chose to ignore or belittle the crazy. It seems we're getting the crazy now - and not, yet anyway, a single action of inflation.

In Trump's first term he had one of the lowest rates of fulfilling campaign promises of any president. I was caught off-guard by him actually appearing to go through with this.

He tried, but he wasn’t well prepared.

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Post by EGreg »

a12k wrote: post #622
EGreg wrote: post #594

And here I thought they'd actually consider my resume. They didn't even bother looking. When DOGE first called for people to apply, they did it on X and said we can send a message to their account on X. So I actually got excited about tackling waste, and wrote this cover letter: https://magarshak.com/resume-cover-letter.php Little did I know this admin was going to be shutting down datasets from data.gov and other cr…

> Little did I know You should have, had you done any research. This was long after Elon’s slide into anti-democratic, far right ideology. And as we now know merely weeks before he did multi Nazi salutes on stage. This feels like people who are surprised that Trump is ticking boxes on Project 2025 despite it being out for multiple years. There’s a pizza shop in NW DC with a basement you should investigate.

Well, it's refreshing that you're doing an "I told you so" about Musk, rather than getting on my case about my suggestion to use Blockchain to "increase public transparency and accountability", which is what I thought was more likely to happen on HN.

I think there are actually good use cases for blockchain and smart contracts, and DOGE was finally going to be one of them.

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Post by dontparticipate »

chmorgan_ wrote: post #619

Amazed at the pushback against an effort to cut waste out of government. There is a ton of it. It's your tax dollars being wasted... let's instead discuss whether things they've identified are keep, toss, or reform and if the wrong call has been made.

If only there was a group of people that were given the legal rights to make that decision... We could call them like... A Congress and we could like write those processes down. Maybe call that document a Constitution.

Re: The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

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Post by scarab92 »

NedF wrote: post #617
eutropia wrote: post #224

There are people in this thread claiming that Wired "doxxed" these engineers working for Musk dismantling things they don't understand; however didn't Musk publicly mock individual federal employees on his twitter account, drawing the eyes of millions onto random government functionaries for no other reason than to capriciously taunt them about being fired? I hope people condemning the former also condemn the latter.

Reddit - "Pink mist them all" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrYxMsWmrjk (Screen caps on Twitter etc. if someone wants to find and link them) Mocking != doxing. Musk was horrid to do that, but it's a different thing.

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