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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 2 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 13:33 UTC] No.42898165[source]▶
This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus...

Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas...

(https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/)

Lots of other data sets are disappearing too:

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-s...

There is active discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

as well as at https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/

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hypeatei ◴[01 Feb 25 14:10 UTC] No.42898383[source]▶
I would just like to point out that Musk is the richest man in the world and is now directing critical areas of the U.S. government. Surely he doesn't have ulterior motives and is looking out for the average person?
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somename9 ◴[01 Feb 25 16:33 UTC] No.42899615[source]▶
Musk is not the richest man in the world. Those lists exclude royalty and other individuals who do not want the extra publicity. The Rothschilds are far richer.
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hypeatei ◴[01 Feb 25 16:40 UTC] No.42899666[source]▶
> Those lists exclude royalty and other individuals who do not want the extra publicity

What individual(s)? You just mentioned a family and not an individual. Forbes lists Elon's net worth at $419 billion.

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somename9 ◴[01 Feb 25 16:57 UTC] No.42899812[source]▶
David de Rothschild. The family has lent money to governments and royalty for centuries. You’re not going to find his accurate net worth on Forbes.

Also, any king or dictator effectively owns their nation’s entire treasury, including all real estate. Maduro, for example, is wealthier than Musk.

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1. panarky ◴[01 Feb 25 21:54 UTC] No.42902760[source]▶
There is no evidence — reliable, speculative, or otherwise — that suggests Nicolás Maduro's net worth exceeds even $100 billion. It's more likely in the hundreds of millions, not hundreds of billions.

Even the most aggressive speculative estimates from opposition figures, investigative journalists, or geopolitical analysts do not approach that figure.

No credible leaks (like the Panama Papers or Pandora Papers) have hinted at such vast assets tied to Maduro.

No intelligence reports or financial investigations from entities like the U.S. Treasury, the EU, or independent watchdogs have ever approached figures remotely close to hundreds of billions.

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2. foobarian ◴[01 Feb 25 22:16 UTC] No.42902992[source]▶
OP's point is that Maduro's authority over the whole country effectively grants him control over the resources and the corresponding net worth. It's a stretch but I can see where they are coming from.