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minus-squareFuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·edit-24 days agoMusk wants to replace US fed/treasury Payments system with blockchain. how? COBOL is widely used in US Financial system https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·4 days agoHe is literally one of the dumbest men alive. This can end in three ways: Realising how stupid the idea is, someone smile tly kills the project before it does any harm Realising how impossible the project is, the goalposts are moved until they end up just slapping a dogecoin logo on existing systems. Being incredibly stupid they actually produce some shitty system that doesn’t work. Major economic disruption ensues.
minus-squareSleepless OnelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·4 days agoThis is the same guy who wanted his employees to print out 50 pages (per person!) of code they wrote in the past 30 days.
minus-squaremerthyr1831linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoA guy who fired an employee who gently explained that he was wrong about his assumptions on how the home page was loaded.
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Musk wants to replace US fed/treasury Payments system with blockchain. how?
COBOL is widely used in US Financial system
https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money
He is literally one of the dumbest men alive.
This can end in three ways:
This is the same guy who wanted his employees to print out 50 pages (per person!) of code they wrote in the past 30 days.
A guy who fired an employee who gently explained that he was wrong about his assumptions on how the home page was loaded.