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by jauntywundrkind 491 days ago
It was amazing days in DC with Tom MacWright building the initial tools to make this so. It'd be so amazing for all governments to do this, to make the law (& how it changes over time) readily available.

You'll have to copy paste this, since Tom blocks HN: https://macwright.com/2013/04/16/dc-code-hackathon

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Exactly - the amount of transparency provided by this commit history and diff is really cool. So many ways git features provide some interesting ideas e.g. could PRs be a way to track changes from different parties or even citizen groups? Could PR reviews/comments be a way to capture public discourse?