"So well, we needed the money to make the network upgrades and everyone agreed that we needed to do it but it never got enough budget assigned to it because other stuff just kept winning the popular vote month to month and we never got over the minimum amount of money we needed....... So, Jet told me to just override the system since it obviously wasn't working right.
And you can't just override it y'know because the results have to be believeable and creating believeable vote distributions that'll stand up to scrutiny is the hard part. But I'd already done that for our reactor fuel burnup records for the patrol, So I created PRIMARY.
PRIMARY takes the public vote and turns it into something we can actually use to get thins done. Everyone thinks they took part and their vote got recorded but really, since we started running the system, whatever they want can always become what we need to get done.
So we got our network upgrades started and paid for, and a bunch of other infrstructure things nobody wanted but everyone needed, but I can't help but feeling a little dirty for doing it.
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And you can't just override it y'know because the results have to be believeable and creating believeable vote distributions that'll stand up to scrutiny is the hard part. But I'd already done that for our reactor fuel burnup records for the patrol, So I created PRIMARY.
PRIMARY takes the public vote and turns it into something we can actually use to get thins done. Everyone thinks they took part and their vote got recorded but really, since we started running the system, whatever they want can always become what we need to get done.
So we got our network upgrades started and paid for, and a bunch of other infrstructure things nobody wanted but everyone needed, but I can't help but feeling a little dirty for doing it.
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