Smeevy

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by Smeevy 1y ago
The article seems to be discussing the revocation of Tesla's special treatment in New York. If that's the extent, then I don't have a problem with it.
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by Smeevy 1y ago
Maybe they list it as "Consulting" and list vague achievements in government cybersecurity auditing? A bunch of them seem young enough to just leave it off and say they were in school. Maybe DOGE counts as a student cybersecurity
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by Smeevy 1y ago
Thanks so much. I was positive I was missing something there.
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by Smeevy 1y ago
Exactly. I was looking this up and only saw a couple of failed attempts at cutting military budgets since the 80s. One such "cut" was only increasing defense spending by 4% instead of 10%.
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by Smeevy 1y ago
IT GETS FUNNIER EVERY TIME! Thank goodness they managed to shoehorn in their singular joke. The One True Joke.
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by Smeevy 1y ago
Empathy seems to be in rare supply these days. I've made the mistake of talking to these people about the human collateral of these decisions and it's waved off like I'm bringing up an unpleasant experience in a checkout line
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by Smeevy 1y ago
I don't disagree, but I think implementing this sort of review with software is dangerous in a different way than making bad behavior more efficient. A parole board can have dissent and differing personal experience in its ranks. There
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by Smeevy 2y ago
This is the really the scary part of automation: the number used to categorize inmates for treatment and rehabilitation plans is now misapplied to possibly keep them in prison longer than necessary. The number,combined with a word like &quo
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by Smeevy 2y ago
We are unfortunately destined to disagree on these points and definitely some others. You do write very well and I believe you have some reasons for your positions, but they don't appear logically consistent to me. Just to descend into
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by Smeevy 2y ago
This may be a good point to recap. It is not my intent to misstate your rationales here, so please tell me if I have mischaracterized your viewpoint. Nuance is tragically difficult to convey on HN. -- Your initial argument, which I believe
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by Smeevy 2y ago
>NGO workers may not be 'mustache-twirling villains' but USAID literally is, well perhaps sans the mustache. They are actively and regularly used to destroy and/or manipulate countries while operating under the pretext of
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by Smeevy 2y ago
We're well past hypotheticals here and it is pointless to talk about what we "could" do. The decision has been made to let food and medicine expire in warehouses and to withhold funds to aid organizations both domestically an
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Even more disingenuity. You are simultaneously defending cynical abuse of government systems and high-minded altruism. >The nature of our political system is such that in the future, whether in 4 years or 12, the 'other side' w
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by Smeevy 2y ago
>Whatever good USAID may have done, could be far more effectively done by another organization without all of their baggage and corruption. So what exactly is being proposed to fill in the gaps created by getting rid of it? Where is th
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Don't forget the spectre of economic uncertainty since nobody knows what anything will cost next week. People hold off on big purchases when they're scared.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
DOGE sounds like every bad junior programmer I've known talking about how amazing they are: "I could write this whole thing in Javascript in a weekend." When I hear that, I just want to watch reality sneak up and slap the hub
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by Smeevy 2y ago
So,like driving a car into a group of protesters. Got it.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
I absolutely loved "Murder Ballads" and it's my favorite example of art that isn't intended for mass consumption. It's simultaneously humorous, horrifying, beatiful, and vile. There isn't a single song from tha
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by Smeevy 2y ago
I'm guessing that at a plurality of those non-experts thought that "Big Bang Theory" was a good TV show. There's no shortage of crap for those mouth-breathers already. If all art and entertainment is made to curry their
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by Smeevy 2y ago
"Everything" is a pretty big word...
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by Smeevy 2y ago
I believe that the person you're responding to also passionately argues that "I'm not touching you!" is an acceptable defense to the charge of sibling harassment.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
What's the intent that makes it terrorism?
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by Smeevy 2y ago
That's already more thought than DOGE has put into implementing these boneheaded cuts.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
I wish I knew. If I had to venture a guess, it would be to get a job with a company that doesn't indulge in this hubris. I think enough companies are being stung by their hastily made AI decisions that the option of losing billions to
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by Smeevy 2y ago
You know what, let them do it. I'm ready to retire anyway. I want to see what happens when somebody looks at the high-rise sand castle that is modern technology and decides that there wasn't enough sand involved.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Speaking of being childish, that whole exchange reminded of being bullied in grade school. Zelenskiy handled it much better than I would have. JD Vance and Trump torpedoed that meeting and even invited Russian media to it. There's a lo
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Except that your opening brace is now *just wherever*. The information is "Here is the opening brace. Right where it's supposed to be." Any of these styles can obviously work, but that one little detail brings a consistency t
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Newer, different boot-lickers.
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Your pearl-clutching is a bit overwrought here. "That poor, poor, richest man the world. He's demonstrating that he's above the law every day, but someone on the internet doesn't trust his motives. Hasn't this man b
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by Smeevy 2y ago
Even if you believe that trust shouldn't be earned, it is inadvisable to believe anything that Elon Musk says is in good faith. How many more examples do you need after the Hyperloop debacle? Here's an expanding list: https:&#x2F

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