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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by lobsterthief on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:35AM (#42060400)
Yeah, what he doesn’t understand is that the government bureaucracy that’s been created is the only reason many of the departments of government work as _quickly_ as they do.

While we as engineers see what appear to be obvious slow inefficiencies (like: “I could build a system to replace all that the DMV does so people won’t need to sit in that waiting room!”) the reality is we don’t even understand all that the DMV does.

I feel that’s the trap Musk falls into, and it became blatantly obvious when he took over X.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by throwaway665345 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:12AM (#42061753)
Aside from liberals boycotting X for political reasons (a completely non-technical issue), technically the site seems to work perfectly fine even after Musk drastically reduced the bureaucracy behind it.
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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by threeseed on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:37PM (#42068958)
Most of the “bureaucracy” came from the non technical side.

Which is why X is under multiple investigations by the EU and advertisers have left the company in droves.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by lobsterthief on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:49PM (#42070013)
I’m boycotting X because I think Elon Musk is an ass and I don’t want to support him in any way. Twitter died to me when it became X and I’m totally fine with that.

X is a cesspool now anyways

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