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

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Post by DrNosferatu »

rayiner wrote: post #71
delusional wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely curious here. How does this relate to Putin being captured by Russia/Putin? This, to me, looks like textbook ineptitude not foreign interference. I want to be clear. I'm not casting doubt on observations that Trump does currently echo Russian talking points. I'm also not trying to argue that he's not captured by Russian interests. I'm merely wondering how this specific piece of information points to that co…

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I remember the anti-interventionist Democrats of the 80s and 90s quite well. They criticized military adventures but never suggested dismantling NATO, abandoning treaty allies, or praising dictators while undermining their own intelligence agencies.

Funny how this "anti-interventionism" only applies to defending democracies against Russian aggression, but not to inserting troops into cities to confront protesters or threatening military action against political opponents.

The neocons accused the left of being soft. They never had evidence of infrastructure data being leaked while presidential rhetoric perfectly aligned with a specific foreign power's strategic objectives.

But please, continue your historical revisionism. It's fascinating how "America First" now means "Russia's interests first."

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

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Post by throw0101c »

somenameforme wrote: post #60

A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites: --- datacatalog.worldbank.org opendata.arcgis.com mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov --- Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just…

> Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just causes further divides.

Perhaps creating division is the point:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

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

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Post by throw0101c »

maxerickson wrote: post #70
tokioyoyo wrote: post #41

A bit tangent, and since I’m an outsider who doesn’t live in the states and have no skin in the game — my understanding is, they will do literally anything to make sure DOGE succeeds, because a failure is basically unacceptable. I can’t even imagine how you can backtrack this, and fix stuff up. They obviously prepared for it months in advance. Targeting ex-employees of successful product companies and putting them in…

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 superior being on a superior mission. Thiel, it should be noted, is a big Nietzsche fan, though his is an extremely selective reading of the philosopher’s work.

> The ubermensch ideology helps explain the broligarchs’ disturbing gender politics. “The ‘bro’ part of broligarch is not incidental to this — it’s built on this idea that not only are these guys superior, they are superior because they’re guys,” Harrington said.

[…]

> The so-called network state is “a fancy name for tech authoritarianism,” journalist Gil Duran, who has spent the past year reporting on these building projects, told me. “The idea is to build power over the long term by controlling money, politics, technology, and land.”

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration...

Also:

* "Why big tech turned right": https://www.vox.com/politics/397525/trump-big-tech-musk-bezo...

* "The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl171lyewo

Have you ever read cyberpunk, especially William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (starting with Neuromancer) where corporations are the government? Basically that.

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

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Post by maxerickson »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #77
maxerickson wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Whatever they promised and people voted for by believing in those promises. People wanted a strong man, and they basically got it. I understand markets can be irrational blah blah, but still surprised how people with money aren’t shipping it away or storing it somewhere more safe looking at the current situation.

I would frame that as being motivated to satisfy their base, vs being motivated to succeed.

Success usually has a positive connotation, and they don't seem to be doing a particularly good job if you take the "reduce the size of the government" goal at face value (they are making messes everywhere they go, with the government shrinking slower than normal attrition...).

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

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Post by elif »

faizshah wrote: post #21
blitzar wrote: post #9

That is chatgpt generated code too.

There’s a good chance the reason this is public is because he was using gist to transfer ChatGPT code between his personal computer and his government computer.

Good catch this is actually my workflow when I code on my phone in the hot tub.

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

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Post by withinboredom »

maxlin wrote: post #14

A nothingburger. Not common to see such blatant misinfo high on HN. I do have higher expectations on this and people here instead of people jumping on a hatewagon :/ Community note on the post: The geospatial data the reporter claims is "sensitive data" is not actually sensitive data. It is open source data. The source files in the DOGE employee's GitHub repository point to an open source site accessible by anyone. h…

Until they accidentally cut funding to it, anyway.

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

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Post by drivingmenuts »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #77
maxerickson wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Whatever they promised and people voted for by believing in those promises. People wanted a strong man, and they basically got it. I understand markets can be irrational blah blah, but still surprised how people with money aren’t shipping it away or storing it somewhere more safe looking at the current situation.

They also wanted people who wouldn't spend money on "stupid programs", which is basically anything there isn't an immediately obvious reason for. A lot of work that government programs do is data-gathering and preparation for other, more obviously helpful programs. But these clowns don't seem to understand that, at all.

They also don't seem to understand that a lot of work isn't profit-oriented (which is the only thing the Trump administration believes in). Some programs exist because they were a benefit at the time (and yes, those need review) and may still be of use, but they always were intended to be a service for everyone, even if some people didn't use. them.

No one seems to understand the concept of government service. It's government business or nothing.

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

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Post by methou »

somenameforme wrote: post #60

A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites: --- datacatalog.worldbank.org opendata.arcgis.com mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov --- Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just…

https://openstreetmap.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.h...

There are actually a lot public information available on Layers -> ArcGIS Online.

I used to see ongoing Waterworks maintenance in there. In the area I live, there are also very up to date earthquake information from Government feed.

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

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Post by soulofmischief »

UncleMeat wrote: post #48
soulofmischief wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I make comments like this all the time because I write code for people to read, not robots. Well-commented code allows you to skim very quickly, and gives a sanity check, allowing others to ensure a line or block of code does what it is expected to do.

This is a bad comment. It adds nothing to clarify anything, since the function in the line below is "read_csv." This would be a textbook example of a comment that is not useful to improve legibility by humans and it demonstrates a lack of expertise among the people who are currently dismantling our government.

I'm sorry, but a code comment does not demonstrate lack of expertise, although such a perspective certainly brings your own expertise into question. Perhaps we should all assume a little less?
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