Re:Ask HN: Why is law stuff seemingly against normal people?
by ge96 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:11AM
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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
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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.