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Ask HN: How to Short the U.S. Government?
3 points by Kapura 2y ago|4 comments
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by Kapura 2y ago
Under a normal regime, yes, one would expect this avenue of employment to be open to you. But you see, Trump as appointed Elon to be godking with no oversight from any branch of government, so the odds of anything happening here are low unt
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by Kapura 2y ago
read the article.
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by Kapura 2y ago
No, you're just right, and you should feel upset about it. Think about the systems and incentives that create this outcome. Think about what needs to change for better outcomes to be possible. Find people and work towards those goals.
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by Kapura 2y ago
Mandatory Voting wouldn't have saved us; the democrats are feckless and failed to provide a coherent counter-narrative to obvious fascist saber rattling.
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by Kapura 2y ago
Laws only matter when people enforce them. The United States has been profoundly lax in holding rich white men accountable for basically a century now; while this should absolutely be seen as the baseless corruption that it is, it is extrem
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by Kapura 2y ago
What are you suggesting?
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by Kapura 2y ago
I do not want our science institutions to be pinching pennies and cutting peer reviewers. It sounds like an invitation to widespread academic fraud.
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by Kapura 2y ago
Porsche just had the best year for the 911 ever. I think the low-end sportscar market probably isn't highly profitable, but I think that if nissan had pursued a strategy other than "these sports car platforms were good once, let&#
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by Kapura 2y ago
Nissan had a huge amount of credibility in enthusiast car communities, not just with the GT-R but also the Nissan Z cars. Unfortunately, they chose not to continue in investing in those spaces, so they have slowly seen what was once a stren
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by Kapura 2y ago
It absolutely blows my mind that people swallowed "AGI is just around the corner" hook, line and sinker. We don't understand human cognition despite literally thousands of years of thought and study, but some nerds with a tho
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by Kapura 2y ago
You mean they weren't loyal lackeys who would willingly break laws for the current regime.
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by Kapura 2y ago
Absolutely wild that the entire world got locked inside their homes and everybody became a remote worker and that wasn't enough for Skype or Teams to get used. Embarrassing! and this is the end result.
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by Kapura 2y ago
The Art of Game Design is a very good jumping off point; it's how i got my start, and it gives you a lot of windows to look through. A few years after getting that book, I started to work professionally with people building games, most
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by Kapura 2y ago
Is it laziness, or is it hubris? In a world where some people are told what they do is so good they essentially have infinite wealth, it's hard to convince them that any specific decision they make is an error.
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by Kapura 2y ago
it's cute you think congress is in control right now.
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by Kapura 2y ago
That is the entire point. They want a government that nobody wants to work for so that regulations on cars, rocket launches, and securities will stop bothering their profits.
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by Kapura 2y ago
I tried moving to Windows 11, discovered that pinning folders in Explorer was bugged to hell, and moved back to 10. All of the features I care to use in windows have been in since Windows 7; moving to 11 broke one of the very few moving par
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by Kapura 2y ago
how do boots taste
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by Kapura 2y ago
what, the modern world in which thousands are allowed to starve while tax dollars are spent on weapons used to commit genocides abroad? the world in which everybody in america needs to own a car because it's not profitable enough to bu
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by Kapura 2y ago
100% on wealth over a billion.
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by Kapura 2y ago
As an american, I do not want this! I don't know why a computer guy's opinion on what happens with everybody's shit is more valuable than mine!
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by Kapura 2y ago
This feels correct.
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by Kapura 2y ago
Why are we giving these people charitable interpretations any more? Elon Musk did a full on nazi salute at the inauguration rally; since then he and his cronies have extralegally tried to insert themselves inside the entire american governm
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by Kapura 2y ago
well good thing we have inspectors general to make sure that people in the government are acting correctly! oh wait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_inspectors_...
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by Kapura 2y ago
I mean, it won't be nothing; there will be craters where the government used to be. People will be studying exactly what the hell happened here for decades to come.
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by Kapura 2y ago
To characterize this as a "department [getting] hit with 10% layoffs" is completely disingenuous. This isn't a department cutting staff; it's an unelected body going around and firing people out of the government for rea
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by Kapura 2y ago
Didn't want to come off as too foamer ;)
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by Kapura 2y ago
Remember that car tire degredation is a significant portion of microplastics in the environment. Investing in mass transit is as imperative as it was to move away from leaded gasoline.
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by Kapura 2y ago
do the people making decisions at Microsoft even use windows? it's incredible that it's been allowed to get this bad.

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