Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute

Re: Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions i... by sillysaurus3 on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:54PM (#13899009)

Instead of encoding laws in a programming language, they could encode the test cases in a natural language. List a bunch of specific scenarios and be explicit about how the law should be interpreted for them. Every time a judge makes a ruling on an uncovered scenario it gets added to the list.

Isn't that how common law already works?

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Re: Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions i... by AdamJacobMuller on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:02PM (#13899666)

I think that was the joke, but I'm not 100% sure....

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Re: Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions i... by sillysaurus3 on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:20PM (#13899707)

Reminds me of https://twitter.com/paulg/status/802141209078759424

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Re: Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions i... by e40 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @04:52AM (#13900499)

The tests are the lawsuits.

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