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Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
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Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#32Well intentioned, but very naive.
I agree but what's your reasoning? Politico pro subs or just generally that no one cares?
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#34For context, this is a solo project I've been building over the past year while working full-time. I've been responding as "we" in the comments since I got used to doing it other places lol
Looking for feedback and advice. I'm an engineer, not a journalist or policy researcher, so a lot of this domain is still new to me despite working on it for a year.
Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#35For context, this is a solo project I've been building over the past year while working full-time. I've been responding as "we" in the comments since I got used to doing it other places lol Looking for feedback and advice. I'm an engineer, not a journalist or policy researcher, so a lot of this domain is still new to me despite working on it for a year.
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Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#36I started but could not finish a project I was calling “g(overnm)it blame” - the idea was to track each bill through committee and to the end either a sort of commit history to see which legislator (or at least which committee) added what part of the final bill.
I found it infeasible, but I’m wondering if you saw rich enough data while making this that you think such a project is viable?
Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#37I like this. My strategy to stay sane in US politics is to follow what the government is actually doing and avoid distractions from ragebait influencers or unhinged statements from politicians.
This works great for international geo-politcs as well. It’s much more important to watch what leaders do than listen to what they say.
Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#38Curious about the X/social feature, technically. How are you getting the data? Is it via official APIs or scraping
Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#39The current summary on the home page contains bias / one-sided reporting. > While the administration describes the strikes as a necessary move to stop nuclear weapons, the conflict has already seen accidental friendly fire and threats of a ground invasion. The balance to the assertion "this was necessary" isn't "but there's been some consequences" -- it is an exploration of the truth of the assertion.
How are the consequences of war not germane to its necessity?
Re: Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
#40I started but could not finish a project I was calling “g(overnm)it blame” - the idea was to track each bill through committee and to the end either a sort of commit history to see which legislator (or at least which committee) added what part of the final bill. I found it infeasible, but I’m wondering if you saw rich enough data while making this that you think such a project is viable?
Maybe I'm too software-engineer-brained now, but to me it seems like lawmakers should just be using a tool like git directly. The legal code is a codebase, every bill is a PR, the arguments and proposed changes are captured in review comments, and the PR is accepted/rejected on a vote.
Aside from "lawmakers don't/won't understand the tool", why not do it this way?