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>Spend less time agonizing over exactly what the law should say, and more time analyzing whether or not the law / eo is being enforced in good faith. The Patri
by akshatpradhan 12y ago
>Spend less time agonizing over exactly what the law should say, and more time analyzing whether or not the law / eo is being enforced in good faith.
The Patriot Act wasn't being enforced in good faith. In fact, the Patriot Act was being used for drug investigations, not terrorism.
303 points on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8536292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8536292
- datashovel 12y agoThat's a perfect example of a situation where the feedback loop needs to be tightened in government. The more I think about it the more I feel governments should be alot more nimble than they have been historically. Alot more like an agile development team. There needs to be just as often "amendments to" or "repealing of" laws that aren't working as originally intended as there are signings of new laws. Instead we have in government the equivalent of a team of developers working on a project for months or maybe years nitpicking all the details before launching only to find that no one wants the product they spent all that time working on, or that it's out-dated, or impossible to maintain given all the complexity, or that it doesn't work on half the computers people try to run it on.