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How long until this is removed from the front page?
by fishnchips 2y ago
How long until this is removed from the front page?
- debacle 2y ago[flagged]
- fishnchips 2y agoAt which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?
- debacle 2y ago[flagged]
- jf 2y agoThen why are you complaining in the comments?
- wavefunction 2y agovacuous platitudes from the stagnance of swamps
- cmorgan31 2y agoYou have a stance that would be unfair to ask you to explain via HN. Instead I’ll just ask, what’s a good starting point for understanding why you think the government needs to be unraveled? Libertarianism or something akin to anarcho-capitalism?
- debacle 2y agoI would say with regards to bureaucracy, no one has put it more succinctly than Trotsky, though complaints about the bureaucracy harken back to the Ancient Greeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed I have met many, many politicians in my day. 95% of them are feckless, spineless, covetous cretins. But the bureaucrats are worse.
- layer8 2y agoIs that from personal experience?
- int_19h 2y agoHow does 18F fit your definition of "bureaucracy", though?
- academia_hack 2y agoDo you think there is a role for the federal government to employ engineers for any purpose? 18F was a general purpose engineering group that built software for many agencies instead of having those agencies pay vast amounts of money to Deloitte/Accenture/Booz Allen etc for a worse quality product.
- goatlover 2y agoWhy do we need to do this? Let me ask it another way, do you think Russia and China are happy with cutting the fed bureaucracy to the bone? Or just the Heritage Foundation?
- SlightlyLeftPad 2y agoOk however, the blame for toxicity really needs to be redirected more towards the people making these decisions and less toward the people complaining about them. This is destroying people’s livelihood and will continue to do so for many years to come.
- debacle 2y ago[flagged]
- phinnaeus 2y agoThat's a fun fantasy to entertain but his actions over the last few years have proven it to be just that.
- tapoxi 2y agoWhy is he making any decisions? He's not a confirmed cabinet appointment.
- SlightlyLeftPad 2y agoElon. does. not. make. cars. Elon. does. not. build. rockets. His strength is leading and believing people who do. Lately however, he’s shown he is not mentally fit for that role. He’s on a crusade more for personal reasons than altruism. His past accomplishments have been seeing opportunities in failing products that seemed impossible. We're not talking about moonshot startups that really don’t affect a ton of people if they fail. We’re talking about long established programs that are helping people or keeping people alive. He has ZERO experience with managing this. I’m just as in favor of cutting bureaucracy as anyone else but I assure you the people making these decisions are not interested in cutting bureaucracy, they’re the ones who created it.
- mlazos 2y agoLike idk how long I need to hear about all the great things in tech he’s done when I see his handiwork in an actual tech company over at X. Maybe he was a grifter all along?
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- ISL 2y agoHopefully it won't be at all. Seems pretty relevant to the tech-industry if entire departments of competent tech-industry folks are getting laid off by the federal government. While it might be political, it is also economic and directly relevant to the hacker/startup ecosystem.