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Re:Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public ser... by IncRnd on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:53PM (#33805693)
For each hundred million people, your 1-2 hours pear year is 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 hours per year.
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Re:Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public ser... by thfuran on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:05PM (#33805871)
Okay, but increasing state and federal government staffing levels by a few percent to try to save that time would cost more than 100,000,000 hours per year.
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Re:Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public ser... by Avamander on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:06PM (#33805897)
If you want to speed it up with staff, if. The point of the article is that you don't have to waste nearly as much human time at all, if you have a working electronic identity and goverment services.
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Re:Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public ser... by thfuran on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:23PM (#33806148)
Oh, I thought this was under the comment about understaffing, but I see now that it isn't.
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