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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by gremlinsinc on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:58PM (#21633780)
I'd love this. Imagine if you could also commit incremental changes, so if someone pushes a 'pork bill' you could push changes to pull out some of the pork and 'trim the fat' so to speak. You can have the defense of women act without making prisons worse for minorities by pushing changes.
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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by debatem1 on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:00PM (#21633798)
I mean, I think you'd still need someone with commit rights to actually push the change (presumably our elected officials), and you would need to have some way of tracking merges well, but that's all seemingly pretty solvable.
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Re:Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represen... by gremlinsinc on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:12AM (#21636656)
yeah it'd need approval by heads of committees maybe and some sort of consensus algorithm. Then of course the bill would need implemented by the specific departments that do those things.
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