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A comment on Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people? by nnn1234 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:14AM (#13528181)
Seems to be against the common man is right. As the other commenters have said reasons are ,but not limited to 1. Moat for lawyers. If it was easy to write functional law, their wages would go down. 2. Precise control on level of vagueness to achieve desired result by forcing subjective interpretation 3. Need for precision and build of technical terms by practitioners I.e. Lingo

People are experimenting with various things from Ethereum smart contracts to L4 a programming language for law.

I have also stated a github repo www.github.com/naveenmishra88/opencontract So that we ccan collaborate on a crowdsourced plain English version of contracts that work for us rather than against.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people? by ge96 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:11AM (#13528442)
That's interesting regarding the github repo to collaborate on "...plain English version of contracts...". I guess I just assume github is for code. It is free hosting and a nice version control tool to collaborate with. That must be a heck of a task too, so many documents. Wow.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people? by beaconstudios on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:13AM (#13530215)
I would have thought that "plain-English contracts" would suffer from some of the same issues of trying to simplify programming - in order to write a spec accurate enough to turn into a program, you end up writing a program.

Legal loopholes are big business and making contracts specific enough that they avoid serious loopholes would surely require the high level of complexity used in modern contract writing.

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