'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's Playbook

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12 points·rbanffy··5 comments

I vouched for this post because, even if you think it's more focused on politics than tech, it is covering a political project (and the execution thereof) by a technologist (and several tech-adjacent folk) who has had work frequently featured in this venue.

Moreover, given that this political project places Tech itself front-and-center (both in the use for furtherance of the project as well as serving as the model being emulated/extrapolated), I think it is wholly on-topic for HN.

None of this analysis strikes me as particularly unkind or unfair. I hope the conversation can at least tackle the thorny issues of how tech has been implicated so far, and how it shall be in the future.

All the best,

The American people voted for Trump and gave him a mandate of cutting spending so that money can be better used in the private sector.

There is no mandate. Trump won by the slimmest of margins, not even close to "mandate" levels.

lol

I'm so tired of hearing this. Just because you agree with him doesn't make him the damn fuhrer. We are supposed to live in a country of laws and checks and balances. Even if he got 80% of the vote, he still needs to respect the Constitution and take basic care to protect us from bad actors (giving a 19 year old a backdoor to our most sensitive systems is not).

I'm completely APPALLED at how many outright fascists have crawled out of the HN woodwork this year.

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