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They claimed to discover .. yes, but they're essentially too young, dumb, and inexperienced to understand the oddities in the data .. the 100+ year old peole ar

They claimed to discover .. yes, but they're essentially too young, dumb, and inexperienced to understand the oddities in the data .. the 100+ year old peole are a result of COBOL NULL entries for people with no birth record dates (which is a real thing in 300+ million people), etc. Also: DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-musk-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus... DOGE is not a trustworthy reporter, they are incentivised to make big, bold, bullshit claims.

jongjong 2y ago
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- defrost 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
    Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - defrost 2y ago
      Fair point, I don't often get drawn in to respond to such obviously bad faith commenting .. it happens to us all now and again.
- dang 2y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.