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Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. He's been working with the defense department for 10 years (acros

Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. He's been working with the defense department for 10 years (across both administrations) to modernize the way the military buys technology. His work to create the "hacking for defense" project to modernize things is not at all like DOGE and preceeds it by many years https://www.h4d.us/ https://www.h4d.us/

giraffe_lady 11mo ago
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johnbellone 11mo ago
Steve is great, but everyone is partisan.
enraged_camel 11mo ago
>> Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. Then why is he calling it Department of War when the official name is Department of Defense?
stackskipton 11mo ago
He's also never worked on any project involving delivering physical goods to DoD. It's one thing to chuck software at DoD, it's another to try and put together a new IFV when a bunch of competing interests have their opinions and you are trying to balance it all.
- LarsDu88 11mo ago
  I dislike Hegseth and MAGA as much as anything, but quite honestly what you are describing is just bureacracy, and it doesn't serve a country well in an actual armed conflict. In the current Ukraine conflict, the US provided something like 50 M1 abrams tanks all of which have currently been destroyed or out of commission. Russia threw something on the order of 3500 tanks (around the same number Hitler threw at Operation Barbarossa, but with each tank far far more capable) and virtually all of those machines have been destroyed or put out of commission. In a real war, you need to come up with new solutions rapidly as the situation changes, and that's a capability the United States seems to have lost. The quality of US tech is fantastic, but the quantity is probably not going to be there when it matters.
lovich 11mo ago
He’s using partisan terminology like Department of War. Fairly certain he’s a partisan
- simonw 11mo ago
  Sadly if he called it the Department of Defense he would also be expressing a partisan preference. Even the name of that arm of the government is "partisan" right now.
  - lovich 11mo ago
    At least that’s the legal name. And yea, kinda hard not to be partisan currently with everything being made partisan
supportengineer 11mo ago
And he has a huge house which can be seen at the top of each page. "Got Mine!"
mindslight 11mo ago
I think the setup is that our society needs a lot of reforms, and everyone has their pet reforms they've focused on the need for. But rather than have any sort of coherent constructive plan, the fascists will shamelessly say multiple contradictory things that each sound good in isolation. So then people get drawn into playing "4d chess" trying to pick out signal from the noise, assuming that there must be some kind of higher goals in there beyond embezzlement and deprecation of the Constitutional government in favor of some corporate oligarchy.
Hizonner 11mo ago
1. If you've been in business for 10 years, you're not a "startup". 2. The "startup community", such as it is, is loaded with hucksters and not particularly respectable. 3. What he wrote is partisan. 4. Putting "Department of War" in the title is heavily partisan.
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giraffe_lady 11mo ago

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johnbellone 11mo ago

Steve is great, but everyone is partisan.

enraged_camel 11mo ago

>> Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. Then why is he calling it Department of War when the official name is Department of Defense?

stackskipton 11mo ago

He's also never worked on any project involving delivering physical goods to DoD. It's one thing to chuck software at DoD, it's another to try and put together a new IFV when a bunch of competing interests have their opinions and you are trying to balance it all.

LarsDu88 11mo ago
I dislike Hegseth and MAGA as much as anything, but quite honestly what you are describing is just bureacracy, and it doesn't serve a country well in an actual armed conflict. In the current Ukraine conflict, the US provided something like 50 M1 abrams tanks all of which have currently been destroyed or out of commission. Russia threw something on the order of 3500 tanks (around the same number Hitler threw at Operation Barbarossa, but with each tank far far more capable) and virtually all of those machines have been destroyed or put out of commission. In a real war, you need to come up with new solutions rapidly as the situation changes, and that's a capability the United States seems to have lost. The quality of US tech is fantastic, but the quantity is probably not going to be there when it matters.

lovich 11mo ago

He’s using partisan terminology like Department of War. Fairly certain he’s a partisan

simonw 11mo ago
Sadly if he called it the Department of Defense he would also be expressing a partisan preference. Even the name of that arm of the government is "partisan" right now.
- lovich 11mo ago
  At least that’s the legal name. And yea, kinda hard not to be partisan currently with everything being made partisan

supportengineer 11mo ago

And he has a huge house which can be seen at the top of each page. "Got Mine!"

mindslight 11mo ago

I think the setup is that our society needs a lot of reforms, and everyone has their pet reforms they've focused on the need for. But rather than have any sort of coherent constructive plan, the fascists will shamelessly say multiple contradictory things that each sound good in isolation. So then people get drawn into playing "4d chess" trying to pick out signal from the noise, assuming that there must be some kind of higher goals in there beyond embezzlement and deprecation of the Constitutional government in favor of some corporate oligarchy.

Hizonner 11mo ago

1. If you've been in business for 10 years, you're not a "startup". 2. The "startup community", such as it is, is loaded with hucksters and not particularly respectable. 3. What he wrote is partisan. 4. Putting "Department of War" in the title is heavily partisan.

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