LostInCalifornia
As he moved to cut foreign aid, he and Elon Musk alleged widespread waste and abuse, although they offered little evidence to back up their claims and may simply disagree with how the money was being spent.
With that in mind, consider what the Trump administration is now doing to Social Security, seeding the idea, which is not backed up by known facts, that millions of dead people are collecting payments.
Angry Sun
Angry Sun
Leyonhjelm
Leyonhjelm
LostInCalifornia
@Leyonhjelm @polarisera I can think of zero competencies of the people looking into it, and zero credibility for the people who believe that shit.
LostInCalifornia
@Leyonhjelm @polarisera "The challenge with COBOL is that it doesn’t have a standardized way to store and work with dates — unlike most modern programming languages. Instead, many dates in COBOL must be coded to a reference number, often using an international standard, Rege explained.
"The most common reference date number is May 20, 1875, under an international standard known as ISO 8601. That means if someone applies for Social Security without a birth date, they may be recorded as 150 years old in the database depending on how a programmer troubleshoots the issue.
"Programmers can overcome these limitations in COBOL’s functionality, but they may also opt to use 1875 as a placeholder for unknown dates if it aligns with the database’s purpose… For example, when the federal government began issuing regular monthly Social Security payments in January 1940, recipients needed to be at least 65 to qualify, meaning they needed to be born in 1875 or before.
"Those who crafted the Social Security database may have, therefore, set 1875 as the default birth year for anyone who lacked that information at the time."
@polarisera reposted your post
@LostInCalifornia Some facts from people who know that people lie, especially when incentivized to lie. This is hard for shitlibs, who still cannot understand the nature of False Positives and False Negatives without rolling on the floor screaming.
LostInCalifornia
@polarisera And there are just TONS of 150 year old people getting checks every single month!!!
HOW do we know this?
THE FUCKING LIARS SAID SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LS
Leyonhjelm
Leyonhjelm
LostInCalifornia
@Leyonhjelm @polarisera Incompetencies include not understanding the date function in COBOL, and those are the Doods that Orange Dood wants to "verify records"
I do not understand why you think stepping on the third rail of US politics is good for your side --- unless you think starving seniors will Make America Great Again?
LostInCalifornia
@Leyonhjelm @polarisera And i bET yoU'Ve wORKED WiTH sYStEMS aS lARGE As sOcIAL sECURiTY!!!
Or even the interfaces for ACA, which the tech industry totally fucked up by not consulting those with core competencies on what would be required.
Leyonhjelm
LostInCalifornia
@Leyonhjelm @polarisera Legacy IT systems exist, little ones.
Leyonhjelm
@polarisera reposted your post
@LostInCalifornia @Leyonhjelm You still have never worked with data. It's shit data, and defaulting to an old date (a terrible practice) doesn't mean there is real living person with a valid date.
Leyonhjelm
gentoobro
A fellow man of refined taste and culture, I see.
Leyonhjelm
Leyonhjelm
gentoobro
Imagine still caring at all what leftist word-weasels say
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