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		c22 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A short post on short trains Or rather politics often results in the implementation of technically inferior solutions. Sometimes the best solution is to do nothing and wait until the political will catches up to reality. Then you will be lambasted for not having acted sooner, but at least it will be done.

yellowapple 7 months ago [–]

The political will catches up a lot faster (if at all) when there's a practical demonstration of the thing to be achieved.

zdragnar 7 months ago | [–]

Unforced errors will continue to happen, not for want of existing examples of a thing well done, but because politics lives on perverse incentives.

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