The plan to speedrun modernizing the social security database is just the latest instance of a common theme in Musk's campaign: He's SO convinced he's a peerless supergenius that it never occurs to him that if it were this easy to do something, maybe other people would have done it already.
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E.g., one person was 150 years old and drawing a check, so there must be thousands of people who are not getting caught doing similar things?
Justify busting more real fraud, not a raid on the program!
That will take .. uh.. so much time and is not funded.
If SS misses a few months, there are disabled and elderly people who will literally die.
A car shaped cardboard box with fertilizer?
And a rocket shaped cardboard box with a rocket engine. And also fertilizer?
So when Elon says wants to "modernize" SSA's tech infrastructure, he's blatantly lying. What he's saying is he wants to get rid of it.
While we talked bad about him, denounce his job and every effort in #DOGE.. he got big contracts from the government
His conflict of interest while working as a special employee could trigger an investigation and also a quick dismissal but no
When the efficient thing to do would be to hire—and retain—the people who do understand it. But then those folks wouldn’t be under his control.
The potential downsides don't matter to him, personally, so they aren't worth considering.
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But it has to be done really well, and he doesn't have the skill set.
It's a huge, really hard project with a whole lot of not-well-documented business logic embedded in not-well-documented code, much of which implements badly-patched laws.
And if Elon hasn't broken things like "pay your Medicare bills out of your SocSec check".
and won't make airplanes crash into things like his FAA goals,
delaying people's checks by even a week, or denying them,
hurts people who may not have the resources to survive that.
Most people get, that if they need surgery, results will be less fatal, if made by a doctor, than by a car salesman.
Except skills, those self-appointed 'geniuses' seem to lack deeper cause & effect thinking..?
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Oh he knows how they missed it. They were in on the fraud and/or incompetent government bureaucrats.
The ketamine told him so.
Unfortunately one of those checkboxes is “don't break anything" and it's really important.
How much of Musk's success is high-wire innovation and how much is federally subsidized risk and privately extracted profit?
Someone rich enough to lose 11 digits turning a public company in to his personal blog doesn't have the same concerns about risk, especially risk pointing at other people.
It'll be like emulating DOS videogames on a modern GPU!
Plenty of spare horsepower!
Why do we care if it breaks a whole lot of corner cases and old-platform-dependent logic tricks?
It'll run rings around an IBM 360!"
most of the code is undocumented at best and out of sync with the documentation at worst.
Don’t get me started on the code being modular or structured either!
Have fun kiddos😊
Deep inside, a narcissist knows he is not so great.
There's no altruism nor civic duty here, just a white supremacist boer plundering the national wealth and public goods and installing shady infrastructures with shady backdoors.
If it were that easy they'd already being doing it.
1. Bust up the SSA system.
2. Grant yourself a 1.5 billion dollar contract to fix it up.
3. Profit!
Now all of a sudden Republicans think it’s a good idea? Fine- hand out the budgets and get it done properly and responsibly.
At which point he will have personal access to the $3.8 trillion trust fund that keeps all of us old people alive. No mistake.
...if you can tell he is bull shitting in your area of expertise, don't you think it is very likely he is bull shitting in all the other areas too?