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		sophacles on Aug 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to in... I think it is less nefarious than that - it feels more like the problems that arise from fixing bugs in code. We've all encountered this - you fix one bug and it breaks 3 other things, because of unexpected/unintended consequences. Something else was relying on the broken code to work right. Systems thinking is just plain hard... So how do we do unit tests for laws?

chiph on Aug 5, 2013 [–]

Lawyers are like that guy in that complexity favors them and gives them job security. Simplicity and clarity is not a virtue in law.

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