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Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by caseysoftware on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:21AM (#14254713)
Those "extreme presidential powers" were not in the system design.

They were submitted as (sometimes secret) change requests by every president post WW2 and accelerated by presidents in the last ~20 years. Unfortunately, the code review team didn't remove the changes and tacked on their own during the process.

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by boomboomsubban on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:09PM (#14260660)
>They were submitted as (sometimes secret) change requests by every president post WW2 and accelerated by presidents in the last ~20 years.

They started way sooner than that, the first major one was the Louisiana Purchase. Basically non-Washington presidents have been trying to expand their power.

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by sgift on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:29AM (#14254771)
Worst code review team in history. But thanks for the explanation, that makes it a bit more clear.