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Re:U.S. Treasury Issues First-Ever Sanctions on a Virtual Cu... by idrios on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:33PM (#31297217)
Don't blame Franklin, the founding fathers set up a great governmental architecture with plug-in support via constitutional amendments, a legislative body for authoring new code, and a judicial system for integration testing our code of laws.

They foresaw that there would be much they could not foresee and gave ample means of updating the constitution. Just now it's been 250 years, it's rife with feature bloat and spaghetti code where small changes have unforeseen consequences, and our legislature is afraid to touch the code despite our many, egregious, surmounting problems.

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Re:U.S. Treasury Issues First-Ever Sanctions on a Virtual Cu... by PlanckMeasure80 on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:15AM (#31301242)
Where can I subscribe to more code allegories?
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Re:U.S. Treasury Issues First-Ever Sanctions on a Virtual Cu... by idrios on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:34PM (#31320078)
I don't have more but the government for makes a really good one.

Someone on here once described our laws as being written in a very advanced programming language, where they are upheld based on intent rather than exact wording.

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