ContDestroyer's comments

On: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service

[ContDestroyer]

"Things government is great at:

-Running public schools -Running public transport -Running public utilities -Running public radio and TV -Running Amtrak -Running Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac -Running it own budget -Running the military -Running Heatlhcare.gov -Running the Postal Service -Running Social Security -Running Air Traffic Control

...and this is just in the United States. You should see countries where everything (or nearly everything) is government-run. I've been trying to immigrate from the US to Cuba, Venezuela, Laos, China, or North Korea for decades! It's absolutely paradise to be in a place where evil private corporations are not in control. It's been shown time and again that the government is the best at solving problems.

Just imagine how great Germany would have been if all of it would have been taken over by East Germany?

Sure, government run everything is not always perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than the opposite."

...SAID NO ONE. EVER.

[tomhow → ContDestroyer]

Please don't engage in ideological battle on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for curious conversation here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[ddtaylor → ContDestroyer]

Private schools produce significantly better results that public schools.

Public transport has been disrupted by private transportation options like Uber, Lime, etc.

Public radio and TV is unused by the vast majority of people who use private options daily like streaming services or YouTube.

The public budget is perpetually in shambles and if it was a private company would have had to go bankrupt and cease business by now.

Social security and other support programs are perpetually failing and used as a political wedge.

On: Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service

[ContDestroyer]

Nope neither the public entity nor the private corporation... it should be the market. WE decide with our business who is worthy, or not. Nice try, comrade!

[Hizonner → ContDestroyer]

Fascinating.

Enlighten me further. How exactly will "the market" decide where the government, or a corporation, or even an individual, chooses to buy computing services? I'm very stupid, so you're going to have to explain step by step exactly how "the market" will do this. I mean, here I thought that choices like that were the inputs to the market.

Let's do it for the corporations first. I'm Microsoft. I need the market to decide for me where I should buy motherboards for my cloud data centers. Where do I apply to get "the market" to tell me that?

[ContDestroyer → Hizonner]

You're right that corporations and individuals make those choices... that's exactly my point. Microsoft's procurement team evaluating motherboard vendors is the market working. What I'm saying is that process produces better outcomes than a government agency mandating which cloud provider everyone uses. The problem isn't who makes the choice, it's when the choice gets made for you.

[Hizonner → ContDestroyer]

Gee, that's nice, but in this case they were deciding which cloud provider the government itself was going to use, not what provider you could use.