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What Garry actually wants is a lot of billionaires as long as he is a trillionaire.

"This org sent a lot of money to shell corps, chosen political operators, and other intelligence operations that was a clear and net negative to the tax payers."

As someone whose organization has benefitted from USAID grant funding, I should make it explicit that not everything is as you see or hear through Elon's Twitter feed.

It is deeply unwise to eliminate an organization entirely without exploring its net effects.

There's some real irony here.

What I'm hearing from my friends - many of whom have helped build and scale some of the most successful tech companies on the planet - is that no engineer is an exceptional one without a modicum of ethics and wisdom.

These seem to be in short supply at DOGE.

I know you want to believe this is principled, but...

- the Social Security Administration, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $395 billion of spending. - the Department of Defense, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $250 billion of spending. - USAID's annual budget is $38 billion annually, so we could realistically estimate that, if they've outlaid $3 billion this year thus far, they've spent 0.4% of what those other two departments have.

Let's call this like it is: USAID is a bogeyman to Trump and Musk and is a threat to the administration's efforts toward becoming a "hard power" country. If they really cared about spending, they would have gone elsewhere first.

Source: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Heroku's updated their Redis fleet: https://blog.heroku.com/redis-vulnerability

Yes, which is why Google was aiming to build nearly 10k homes in Mountain View - which was mostly opposed by local homeowners.

The question you're really wanting to ask is "why don't tech companies want to be good corporate citizens?"

It's because of profit. Amazon opposing the per-employee tax that would provide critical city services should help explain exactly where their priorities lie.

Impressive work.

"Can a company that's not even close to profitable be considered a "market leader"?"

Sure it can. Uber and Twilio are generally considered, far and away, as market leaders in their respective spaces; Uber is massively unprofitable and Twilio was operating at a loss at the time of its IPO.

Market leadership is a function of production and capacity, not profitability.

That's excellent to hear. Thanks for the kudos!

Got it - appreciate the feedback! We've been hearing some requests to provide flexibility over what's shown on the profile timeline, so your sentiments are being echoed.

Thanks again!

Got it - very helpful. Thanks for clarifying! I've copied this verbatim and sent across to our Platform team.

Indeed, many teams are - the original iteration of Projects was released to staff a few months ago (as is common with many of our product releases), so we're continuing to learn how teams are using it most effectively. Yesterday's release to the public will help with that effort too.

I personally use it on my team at the moment - it's been pretty useful and we've passed along frequent feedback to the platform team responsible for it.

Certainly - thanks for that! I've included it here.

We're aiming to monitor this board as much as possible, but if there other feature asks that come up, feel free to connect with our Support team - they're also available to take your feature asks and report them to our Engineering team.

Ah, noted - so you'd like to have some customization on what you choose to show on your profile?

I want to make sure I capture your feedback correctly, so let me know if this doesn't help: we recently released the ability to change your base branch on a PR. https://github.com/blog/2224-change-the-base-branch-of-a-pul...

Let me know if that helps!

We're happy that you're happy. :) Keep the feedback coming; we're listening!

No worries - glad to provide the additional details!

We also recognize that having a SaaS solution like GitHub Organizations meets the needs of many companies (over 75,000 at last count), and our announcement of 2FA enhancements today is an indication of our desire to continue that approach.

Reading, and passing that feedback along to our Engineering team. Thanks!