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Did you notice that Mozilla plugins broke the other day because somebody forgot to renew a certificate? The law is the framework that our society runs on and bu
by vajrabum 7y ago
Did you notice that Mozilla plugins broke the other day because somebody forgot to renew a certificate? The law is the framework that our society runs on and business and pretty much ever other activity is a plugin. So do you really want to set us up for breaking the plugins because the cert (law) has expired when the legislature was too busy or forgot to renew? BTW, like any other organization legislatures have limited productivity (bandwidth). It varies from one to another but we aren't living in the days of Hammurabi where you could write it on two stone tablets. Replacing or even renewing the law for a modern technological society is not going to be a semester project for some script kiddies (legislators).
- klyrs 7y ago> Replacing or even renewing the law for a modern technological society is not going to be a semester project for some script kiddies (legislators). If only we had some kind of distributed system that could be used, to maintain a complex codebase with thousands of contributors... oh wait we already have git. Imagine if federal law was a monorepo, and state, county, city laws were branches. It sounds like a nightmare to manage, but lawyers are increasingly tech-savvy and, for example, bitbucket allows one to edit files from a web interface and immediately create pull requests. Additionally, there are already consensus-based and k-of-n cryptosystems that could be used to review and sign pull requests -- this could be the basis of a true technological republic.
- vajrabum 7y agoNone of that is going to help with the problem of you have a relatively tiny number of "committers" (legislators).