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ddtaylortoday at 3:01 PM5 repliesview on HN

The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. They can't solve problems that are much simpler than cloud computing, so why should I expect them to perform better at a more complex problem?


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Hizonnertoday at 3:12 PM

Sure. Your average private corporation would do much better at sanely evaluating Microsoft's cloud, and sanely acting on that evaluation.

Right.

You bet.

Absolutely.

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whoknowsidonttoday at 3:44 PM

I think this perspective has resolutely been debunked at this point.

The government has historically, routinely, consistently, solved problems more complex than cloud computing.

The only way you'd think otherwise is if you had some other motivation to pretend otherwise... some sort of ideology.

cptskippytoday at 7:40 PM

> The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality.

That's a common line by conservatives who are actively sabotaging government with policies and laws which they then point to as evidence of such inefficiencies.

hiddencosttoday at 3:04 PM

Basically false. They're better at health care. Better at education. Better at feeding people. Better at charity.

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hrmtst93837today at 6:12 PM

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