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Implicitly assuming that there is some well defined state that can be recovered when turning it back on. That's not how the real world works, and historically what revolutionaries fail to fully realize is that the trajectory out of a period without government is extremely unlikely to wind up in the state that they desire, much less one that was "stored" or "defined" by a set of per-existing laws.


true- the only "revolution" that I'm familiar with that was mostly successful is the American Revolution and even that is probably a misnomer.

Rather than a call for revolution, my comment was a joke- given the technical bent of this forum.

Because turning things off/on again actually works for so many bugs lol

If we could actually do it- it would actually look something like idealized DOGE. Terminate all contracts. Fire everyone minus the absolutely essential employees. Or at least the employees that can't even send an email (minus NOCs?)

Then slowly build back until it needs to be done over again.

This contract seems like another grift. Hopefully I'm wrong.




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