moby
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Comment · 1 year ago
What Garry actually wants is a lot of billionaires as long as he is a trillionaire.
Comment · 1 year ago
"This org sent a lot of money to shell corps, chosen political operators, and other intelligence operations that was a clear and net negative to the tax payers."
As someone whose organization has benefitted from USAID grant funding, I should make it explicit that not everything is as you see or hear through Elon's Twitter feed.
It is deeply unwise to eliminate an organization entirely without exploring its net effects.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's some real irony here.
What I'm hearing from my friends - many of whom have helped build and scale some of the most successful tech companies on the planet - is that no engineer is an exceptional one without a modicum of ethics and wisdom.
These seem to be in short supply at DOGE.
Comment · 1 year ago
I know you want to believe this is principled, but...
- the Social Security Administration, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $395 billion of spending. - the Department of Defense, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $250 billion of spending. - USAID's annual budget is $38 billion annually, so we could realistically estimate that, if they've outlaid $3 billion this year thus far, they've spent 0.4% of what those other two departments have.
Let's call this like it is: USAID is a bogeyman to Trump and Musk and is a threat to the administration's efforts toward becoming a "hard power" country. If they really cared about spending, they would have gone elsewhere first.
Source: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Comment · 8 years ago
Heroku's updated their Redis fleet: https://blog.heroku.com/redis-vulnerability
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes, which is why Google was aiming to build nearly 10k homes in Mountain View - which was mostly opposed by local homeowners.
Comment · 8 years ago
The question you're really wanting to ask is "why don't tech companies want to be good corporate citizens?"
It's because of profit. Amazon opposing the per-employee tax that would provide critical city services should help explain exactly where their priorities lie.
Comment · 8 years ago
Impressive work.
Comment · 9 years ago
"Can a company that's not even close to profitable be considered a "market leader"?"
Sure it can. Uber and Twilio are generally considered, far and away, as market leaders in their respective spaces; Uber is massively unprofitable and Twilio was operating at a loss at the time of its IPO.
Market leadership is a function of production and capacity, not profitability.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's excellent to hear. Thanks for the kudos!