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> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%. Wheres the evidence of their brillian

> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%. Wheres the evidence of their brilliance? A few projects in GitHub isn’t impressive. Seriously if they’re brilliant this is the perfect PR opportunity to highlight the highly talented people making a difference. But instead we have secrecy. I suspect the real reason for these choices is they needed people who are young and naive, will not ask too many questions, easy to manipulate, and coerced to work long for little pay.

an_guy 2y ago
Wheres the evidence of them not being brilliant? Just because they have fewer github projects, they are not talented? Also please point to the last federal employee in IT sector who were highlighted for their "Talent and Brilliance".
- maeil 2y ago
  Asking for people to prove the negative? I swear these posts are now being flooded by X types who only comment on these kinds of posts - and what a surprise, looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff, solely on politics - this level of reasoning used to be absent from here regardless of political inclination.
  - an_guy 2y ago
    Burden of proof lies on GP for his claims > looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff As opposed to yours, which is even more politically charged with clear bias and scarce technical posts? You must be an ideal HN user with "no bias" and "high reasoning" I assume...
    - maeil 2y ago
      Never mentioned "no bias" or "reasoning", great job making things up there. It's not about bias, it's about being a real, actual HN user instead of coming here with a particular goal. HackerNews, a tech/startup community. I have and continue to comment plenty on tech/startup stuff that interests me, as well as other random things that aren'tUS politics. The last few weeks in particular there's been a flood of US political posts so I've commented on those as well. Your history shows being here for a different reason, only engaging with that single topic.
- binary_slinger 2y ago
  If you have some evidence of their brilliance you can post it now.
  - ban-evader 2y ago
    [flagged]
  - an_guy 2y ago
    You are the one who made the claim. Burden of proof lies on you. Provide evidence for their "lack of brilliance".
mike_hearn 2y ago
The post you're replying to has a link to a video in which one of the guys talks about how he decoded the Vesuvius scrolls. It's literally a PR video highlighting a highly talented young person.
goldenManatee 2y ago
One of them transcribed an ancient Greek text from Vesuvius. So idiots buy into the idea this qualifies them to become unelected arbiters of THEIR OWN opinion of justice and decide who the Treasury pays or does not.
- dani__german 2y ago
  Considering the projects that USAID pays for, what they are doing is just and correct. The US executive bureaucracy is bloated beyond belief and needs to have major cuts. We are spending almost 2 trillion dollars more than we are bringing into the government. So many things need to stop being paid for.
  - monocularvision 2y ago
    And 2/3rds (and growing) of the Federal Budget is mandatory entitlement spending (Medicare, SS, etc), which Trump explicitly stated he won’t touch.
    - nxobject 2y ago
      And don’t forget interest payments on the debt (~$800 bil?), which will keep increasing year over year as well.
  - nxobject 2y ago
    It’s certainly not correct: the FY24 deficit is $1.9T, and the remainder of the ~$6T budget that isn’t DoD, Medicare/Medicaid, SSA, or interest payments is around ~$2.3T. To make a meaningful dent in that deficit, the cuts would have to be of the size that a modicum of checks, balances, and oversight is needed. Or, instead, we could stop tinkering around the edges as a nation and think about the structural reasons why current spending on pensions and the healthcare safety net in the US isn’t sustainable, despite providing less to citizens than other comparable countries.
    - dani__german 2y ago

an_guy 2y ago

Wheres the evidence of them not being brilliant? Just because they have fewer github projects, they are not talented? Also please point to the last federal employee in IT sector who were highlighted for their "Talent and Brilliance".

maeil 2y ago
Asking for people to prove the negative? I swear these posts are now being flooded by X types who only comment on these kinds of posts - and what a surprise, looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff, solely on politics - this level of reasoning used to be absent from here regardless of political inclination.
- an_guy 2y ago
  Burden of proof lies on GP for his claims > looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff As opposed to yours, which is even more politically charged with clear bias and scarce technical posts? You must be an ideal HN user with "no bias" and "high reasoning" I assume...
  - maeil 2y ago
    Never mentioned "no bias" or "reasoning", great job making things up there. It's not about bias, it's about being a real, actual HN user instead of coming here with a particular goal. HackerNews, a tech/startup community. I have and continue to comment plenty on tech/startup stuff that interests me, as well as other random things that aren'tUS politics. The last few weeks in particular there's been a flood of US political posts so I've commented on those as well. Your history shows being here for a different reason, only engaging with that single topic.
binary_slinger 2y ago
If you have some evidence of their brilliance you can post it now.
- ban-evader 2y ago
  [flagged]
- an_guy 2y ago
  You are the one who made the claim. Burden of proof lies on you. Provide evidence for their "lack of brilliance".

mike_hearn 2y ago

The post you're replying to has a link to a video in which one of the guys talks about how he decoded the Vesuvius scrolls. It's literally a PR video highlighting a highly talented young person.

goldenManatee 2y ago

One of them transcribed an ancient Greek text from Vesuvius. So idiots buy into the idea this qualifies them to become unelected arbiters of THEIR OWN opinion of justice and decide who the Treasury pays or does not.

dani__german 2y ago
Considering the projects that USAID pays for, what they are doing is just and correct. The US executive bureaucracy is bloated beyond belief and needs to have major cuts. We are spending almost 2 trillion dollars more than we are bringing into the government. So many things need to stop being paid for.
- monocularvision 2y ago
  And 2/3rds (and growing) of the Federal Budget is mandatory entitlement spending (Medicare, SS, etc), which Trump explicitly stated he won’t touch.
  - nxobject 2y ago
    And don’t forget interest payments on the debt (~$800 bil?), which will keep increasing year over year as well.
- nxobject 2y ago
  It’s certainly not correct: the FY24 deficit is $1.9T, and the remainder of the ~$6T budget that isn’t DoD, Medicare/Medicaid, SSA, or interest payments is around ~$2.3T. To make a meaningful dent in that deficit, the cuts would have to be of the size that a modicum of checks, balances, and oversight is needed. Or, instead, we could stop tinkering around the edges as a nation and think about the structural reasons why current spending on pensions and the healthcare safety net in the US isn’t sustainable, despite providing less to citizens than other comparable countries.
  - dani__german 2y ago