This kind of rebuild-the-complex-system-from-scratch thing is always really tempting, and generally a complete disaster.

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

So we will have to rebuild it again in four years to remove all the backdoors put in place

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    More like the department will be crippled for years. The replaced code will not work, corrupting data. I fully expect them to make it hard to replace the new stuff with the older systems which has tens of millions of moving parts.

    The damage will be so great that people applying for social security a generation from now will still feel aftereffects

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