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Comment by throwawaymaths | Hacker News Reader

i hate to break it to you but it's literally called "the federal code".

I hate to break it to you, but 2 million people engaged in an endless list of activities that encompasses repairing tanks, making grants, building bridges, supporting citizens abroad, distributing pension checks, performing surgery, making sure airplanes don’t crash and conserving forests is not the same kind of thing as a codebase and requires a different skill set to effect change in.

and yet the structure of the federal code is generally designed to be read as a recipe. judges are instructed to be as objective as possible. disbursers of funds are expected to justify decisions in as mechanical a fashion possible (this maximizes accountability) perfection is impossible, but the idea of running government like code is a quasi-ideal, or else you cant go back to the taxpayer and say "hey we did good by you".

Your discourse screams delusion or next-to-none experience in any mid-sized life and collective/team work.

Maybe try first to spend some time and speak with the actual people (judges, administrators, clerks, etc.) that do this daily, to understand how it works in reality.

For the love of God. How old are you?

If you cannot make the distinction between computer code and law/regulation, that get applied by humans in humans time and humans circles…?

« Refactoring » an org or a government like you project to, like Elon and his boys is doing, it is going to cost actual lives. People killed.

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