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There's a trick to fixing the CDC. By forcing all their work to move to public git repos, you will dramatically accelerate collaboration, decentralization, and trust; the 3 biggest things the CDC's has failed hard on during the pandemic.

https://breckyunits.com/how-to-fix-the-cdc.html



Get ready for five levels of prepush approval signoffs after the first time the media discovers an embarrassing line in some internal document.


Government agencies are structured in a manner which avoids attribution and accountability, the antithesis of revision control. If forced to implement Git, the agency would do so in a manner that would render it useless.


I'm not convinced that perfect transparency is a general fix. People will be more reserved when communications move onto a more transparent medium, and the real decisions will be discussed and made somewhere else.


Classic let's solve the problem by creating a database.


Needs an XKCD link!


Government agencies hate him!




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