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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by nobodywillobsrv on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:50AM (#42929394)
Rule by lawyers. This is basically false.

People need to do work. And when bad things are happening, the principle is that you can not simply let bureaucratic rule protect criminals.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by hypothesis on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:57AM (#42929443)
Are you really calling federal law passed by US Congress and signed by POTUS a rule?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by kelnos on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:04AM (#42929996)
What bad things? What criminals?

You're making things up.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by bloomingkales on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:05AM (#42930889)
Should we be downvoting this person? How can we speak with this person? Bro, we need to reason with you, keep coming back.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by whateveracct on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:57AM (#42933146)
Rule by law

FTFY

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