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Didn't you learn anything from the Mozilla rewrite of 1997. Never start from scratch, always patch, patch, patch until its working. https://www.joelonsoftware.c

Didn't you learn anything from the Mozilla rewrite of 1997. Never start from scratch, always patch, patch, patch until its working. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... Here are some starting patches... First we have to make political donations anonymous and capped. Also, no money from companies, only people. Then we need to fix the fake news problem. Make sure nobody is living in a bubble and we are all living in the same reality. (The fix is to make news the forth estate officially) Then we need to fix the size and shape of our electorates. Much smaller. No Gerrymandering. Also need to ditch the two party system and allow our elected representatives to vote as desired by the electorate they represent. Also push as much power as we can down to state and city level governments. Allow states and cities to be more different to one another so that we can all learn from the successes and failures of the choices of other states. Move power closer to the people.

InitialLastName 5y ago
I don't think you're wrong in general principle, but... > The fix is to make news the forth estate officially It's difficult for me to see how formally establishing the main-stream media as a branch of government would do anything to improve the credibility of the news.
- jay_kyburz 5y ago
  If we can do it for the law and order I think we can do it for information.
  - InitialLastName 5y ago
    I'm not saying we can't do it, I'm saying I don't see what it improves. And just to mention, we also have problems in our society with the centralization and expanding powers of law and order in our government. Maybe that isn't the best example of "we centralized that, and now everything is OK!".
    - jay_kyburz 5y ago
      I also suggested pushing more power down to the local state and and city councils. Less concentration. I didn't have it in my list above, but one thing capitalism did get right is that humans are self interested and motivated by competition. We need some of that competition in our public services so that the individuals who run them can be rewarded for doing a god job (whatever that might mean.)

InitialLastName 5y ago

I don't think you're wrong in general principle, but... > The fix is to make news the forth estate officially It's difficult for me to see how formally establishing the main-stream media as a branch of government would do anything to improve the credibility of the news.

jay_kyburz 5y ago
If we can do it for the law and order I think we can do it for information.
- InitialLastName 5y ago
  I'm not saying we can't do it, I'm saying I don't see what it improves. And just to mention, we also have problems in our society with the centralization and expanding powers of law and order in our government. Maybe that isn't the best example of "we centralized that, and now everything is OK!".
  - jay_kyburz 5y ago
    I also suggested pushing more power down to the local state and and city councils. Less concentration. I didn't have it in my list above, but one thing capitalism did get right is that humans are self interested and motivated by competition. We need some of that competition in our public services so that the individuals who run them can be rewarded for doing a god job (whatever that might mean.)