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Musk DOGE associate fired after interview where he said "The government works. It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest" (www.govexec.com)

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[–] Quacksalber 50 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Sahil Lavingia — an engineer, tech startup founder and CEO of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for content creators

Thanks for the article, now I know what kind of person leads Gumroad: A DOGE lackey.

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Lavingia wrote that he wanted to work at DOGE to make an impact, noting that he previously canvassed for Bernie Sanders’ presidential run in 2016.

And he has no political backbone.

WIRED previously reported on the alarm bells Lavingia and his work set off for VA employees worried about DOGE’s lack of understanding of the agency and disregard for normal procedures.

“In meetings with the Office of the CTO, I discovered ambitious ongoing software projects like reducing veterans' benefits claims processing from 133 days to under a week,” wrote Lavingia. “I also learned that several of VA's code repos were already open-source, and the world's first electronic health record system, VistA, was built by VA employees over 40 years ago.”

And he is an idiot to boot, with no prior knowledge of the agency he tried to trim down.

[–] marine_mustang 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

WTF is Gumroad? A me-too rehash of a million other shitty e-commerce sites?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yo, picture this: Gumroad is like the Gumtree for Silkroad

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