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If this was done two years ago HN would be talking about how great it is.
by cdot2 1y ago
If this was done two years ago HN would be talking about how great it is.
- Kerrick 1y agoIf this was two years ago the headline would’ve said USDS, not DOGE.
- happytoexplain 1y agoCould anything have changed since then?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> HN would be talking about how great it is If it were happening two years ago it would have used dummy data. USDS wasn’t known for committing crimes the way almost everyone at DOGE has.
- throw0101d 1y agoWho is doing something, and how they're doing it, can be as important as what is being done.
- Volundr 1y agoI can confidently say I, and pretty much every other engineer I know would have been categorically opposed to having a hackathon to rip out and replace IRS systems no matter who was doing it. Techies like those of us on HN understand the difference between safety critical systems and throwing ideas at the wall in a startup. If this was being done in a careful methodical fashion, with deep care given to data integrity and security I'd support it regardless of whose doing it. This 30 day move fast and break things would be bad from Biden, Obama, or in a better timeline Bernie.