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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by Balgair on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:26AM (#23710016)
Be nice to upgrade democracy to git. Not, like in theory, but for real.

New law? Push the update.

Pull old law easy peasy. diff/grep on newer versions or the county's over.

Vote on what makes it to prod, sub-teams for smaller areas like parking tickets, etc.

Yeah, it's simple at the end, but digitizing it all, linking it to the underlying databases, root privileges, etc. would make it all run much smoother. Be nice to see people get involved more too.

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by eob on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:35AM (#23710046)
You might enjoy reading about Taiwan’s experiments in this direction [1]. They’ve used an online system to craft 26 pieces of legislation now with public participation. Now quite full-on “governance by git” but a very cool step in that direction.

Pretty sure it’s one of Audrey Tang’s projects [2]. She’s a member of the cabinet who is also an all-around hacker.

[1] https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by TacoSteemers on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:22AM (#23712021)
You might enjoy this article.

"How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by allenleein on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:06AM (#23710179)
Very interesting. How about upgrade knowledge to git?

People iterate knowledge together in a git-based knowledge base network.

Upload your own knowledge base, wiki to the network.

Push/pull -> new thoughts, breakthroughs...

Merge -> different knowledge branch

Then build a search engine on top of it.

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by Balgair on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:07AM (#23714028)
Jesus, that would make research papers easier. Historiography via pull requests and push comments? Yes!
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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by mrblues on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:24AM (#23712359)
Financial laws like employment and taxes should be formalized in code as much as possible.
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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by rajacombinator on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:46AM (#23710905)
git blame would be a fun one here. of course, they’d never let you see the real commit history.
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