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> Heck, I was a part of an utterly failed project with a $150m budget (in 2005), in a large European company

Was it a just a somewhat complex CRUD app like the SSA example or most govt IT projects? Or were you guys trying for something more complicated and innovative and failed?

> Is this situation right now really "unusable"?

Quite literally unusable because I got blocked by HN from commenting for more than two hours coz of all the politically motivated downvotes. If you have the right politics, keep commenting!

> I'd hope you'd be able to have a conversation

See above, literally not able to have one because I dared to criticize Democrats for their actions and inactions that led to tech job losses for over two years.

> People might disagree with you

I'm open to arguments but looks like people disagree with the facts that I am bringing forward, so they're downvoting to suppress them to lower visibility and to discourage me from participating on here.

It's like on Reddit when you state a plain fact 'Musk founded SpaceX' in reply to a highly upvoted comment that said 'Musk bought all this companies' and get heavily downvoted and even permanently banned in large subs by highly biased moderators.

This place is turning into yet another BlueSky or Reddit where facts don't matter and only a one sided political narrative is pushed at all times. Don't think it's worth engaging. I don't want to be in a place where my comments are deemed so terrible that I get max downvoted and then unable to comment for several hours.

Ironically, such controlling behavior and shutting down of facts, criticism of one side and conversation is leading more and more people to vote for the other side. I am now ashamed of being a lifelong liberal and won't vote democrat till people change this obnoxious partisan behavior on platforms like this one.

Two bills were passed with zero Republican votes in 2021 and 2022 by Democrats, the repeal could've been included in either if democrats wanted.

> As stated above, it was 14 to 13 by party lines in this committee, and that's a negligible difference

There were only 27 members in the committee. So all the Democrats on the committee voted against the repeal and all the republicans voted for the repeal.

How is that a negligible difference? That's a massive maximum difference between the parties, in fact it was impossible to have a higher difference.

That wasn't a clean bill, it had a bunch of other stuff in it, 86 pages long.

Democrats could've passed a bill that only included the repeal of the R&D changes, which they didn't coz they didn't want to.

Edit: rate limited coz of politically motivated downvotes, I am done here.

> I think it's not as clear cut as "the Democrats" or "the Republicans" here-- especially since there would probably be a requirement that the shortfall be made up in some other way in order to balance the effects on revenue

For the 10th time in this thread, the repealing bill DID NOT need to be revenue neutral since it had Republican support, all it needed was 60 votes in the Senate. Reconciliation only applies if a yearly budget bill can get at least 51 votes but not 60.

Sorry, I feel like I am taking crazy pills. I stated the same in another comment and was downvoted. I know HN is liberal biased but it's becoming unusable if you as much dare to criticize democrats.

Why wouldn't you also blame the Democrats though?

They had the chance to repeal it before it would have taken effect.

Why do they get zero blame on here?

It had Republican support so it would've gotten the 60 votes in Senate without needing to get reconciliation. It didn't even get a vote because the Democrats stopped it from proceeding with their control of the Senate. Their policy is all about higher taxes on corporation and high income individuals so it tracks.

Because it's unpopular. Polls show the vast majority don't want TikTok banned.

> It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just pragmatic to wait one additional day for the incoming administration to carry out enforcement actions

The Biden administration was specifically looking for ways to keep TikTok running during the last days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administrat...

Only 25% of democrats want TikTok banned. The Biden admin didn't want to be blamed for shutting down TikTok.

Congress can pass a law removing the exception for the extension in the bill they already passed. There is zero appetite for such a law.

Only 25% of Democrats want TikTok banned vs 38% of republicans, it's the opposite of a coup with the President siding with the opposing party. Politicians of all colors are reading the room. Not hearing Democrat politicians calling for an immediate TikTok ban.

Is lack of federal enforcement of anti-marijuana laws a coup too?

Congress can pass a bill immediately removing the TikTok exception and also criminalizing the App store.

Are even Democrats calling for TikTok to be immediately banned? All this feels so bizarre as how something that absolutely no one in real life wants being heavily pushed for talking points.

No, they don't even mention that TTS hired 150 new employees just in the past year. It's all one sided partisan biased clickbait and FUD, just like all their stories. It's not journalism meant to inform.

Yes it's almost impossible to fire govt employees like you say, which is why many get away with doing the bare minimum, if that. That's natural human tendency.

If fired, they can appeal to the MSPB and then file lawsuits, as a manager, it's not worth it spending all your time trying to get rid of one underperformer. It's free taxpayer money after all and not like your company will become uncompetitive or bankrupt if it has hundreds of thousands of underperformers.

TTS hired 150 new employees just in the past year but that's never mentioned in these "news" stories because biased "journalism".

Huh, it says they want to turn over functions to a public body.

> You are arguing the system would perform worse in contexts in which you have not seen it perform (because its designers decided to prevent it from such attempts).

Should we also assume that Mercedes cars can fly better than a plane, because we have not yet seen them fly?

What kind of logic is that?

In other news, OpenAI has solved AGI last year, but is keeping it a secret because it's too dangerous.

I have solved self driving, how can you say I didn't if you haven't seen it perform?

There are plenty of FSD videos on YouTube where the driver didn't have to intervene at all on long trips, where the car isn't just following the car in front.

> Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda argued last month that an EV-only future would lead to job losses across the auto industry.

So... lets keep polluting the air and heating up the planet so that Toyota can keep their profits high after ignoring EVs for at least a full decade.

I'm not cheap, I am a highly paid SRE. If you're going accuse me of astroturfing please don't call me cheap.

Tesla doesn't even have a PR team because Musk is cheap and Musk totally pays me(a highly paid DevOps/SRE btw) to astroturf by offering me 7 figures! Please get a grip on reality.

SpaceX isn't subsidized and the govt tried really really hard to exclude Tesla from EV subsidies, and reversed at the last minute.

I've been a lifelong liberal and won't vote Democrat after seeing how SpaceX and Tesla are being treated by the liberal media, including the publishing of outright fake news by so called reputable outlets. I don't support Trump or Putin or dictators in general. If I vote Republican at some point it'd be an anti-Democrat vote.

Does it apply when x = 'cops' ?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/eric-garner-manhattan-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/black-lives-matter-ch...

Modi tried to censor left wingers' speech, Twitter refused and sued the Indian government. It's in the linked BBC article.

His arguments like this?

https://x.com/esghound/status/1511730625333665799

He's worthless as a source and not worth paying attention to.

It's the media they're talking about, like writing hit pieces without doing research about mercury pollution that was because of a misplaced decimal point and making a huge deal about a couple of bird nests.

Biden held an EV summit in 2021 and didn't invite Tesla. He declared GM's Mary Barra as the pioneer of EVs when GM had only manufactured 28 EVs that quarter and Tesla sold hundreds of thousands that were all manufactured in the US. The WSJ recently reported that it was because the UAW donated heavily to his campaign.

I wonder if the idea was to delay it beyond the election in early November.

The pure vitriol and ad hominems ensure that facts against their narrative will not be presented.