DOGE has responded by saying those are rookie numbers.

This is Elon Musk‘s MO: announce a feature that would be groundbreaking for the industry well before you have any real understanding of whether it can be built in the first place. A lot of old classmates are at SpaceX now and have told many horror stories of this happening across their projects.

While the foundational principle holds true, Facebook has proven that anonymity is not a required component of this equation.

A quick glance at the front row of the inauguration seems to imply they are in fact a monolith. Not to mention how many corporations immediately bent the knee for this administration before even being asked.

The GP is talking about before the election, but you seem to be talking about after the election. Those are very different situations.

Before election: https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-dona... - they're basically the same.

So some companies donated 1M to republicans. How much did they donate to democrats?

> Before election: https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-dona... - they're basically the same.

Your link spends a lot of time talking about donations to Trump's inauguration committee, which I understand happened after he won, and generally seems to not distinguish between contributions before and after the election.

They won’t, on both counts.

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(1) That is the paradigm of classification, don't knock it, and

(2) I did some work on a pre-product startup that wanted to build something like this about 10 years ago, when visual recognition was much less developed.

But then you’re required to archive the discussions for the public to access. That’s much worse for these people than foreign agents (and journalists apparently) listening in and taking notes.

This has got to be one of the most compromised administrations in US history and we’re not even outta the 2nd month. I can only imagine the memes and high fives going around in intelligence agencies around the world this week.

Not that this negates your point, but: We are in fact slightly out of the second month.

Couldn’t be massive cost-cutting efforts in corporations preparing for a future with a skeleton crew of humans maintaining an ocean of thinking machines, could it? Add in an impending recession (or depression if you like), and you’ve got a recipe not to hire many inexperienced workers no matter what their educational background.

I’m old enough to remember the same type of argument playing out when corporate executives sent US jobs overseas in the 80s and blamed the workers then too.

"Here at Craptech we are facing a huge labor shortage of highly skilled workers that we can hire for the very low wages and nearly nonexistent benefits that we are offering. The situation is so desperate that we are considering doing anything in our power that does not involve increasing wages or benefits, or any kind of employee training."

At this point it wouldn’t surprise me if they were using free Android phones they won in a raffle set up by foreign intelligence agents