YC's request for startups: Government 2.0

Re:YC's request for startups: Government 2.0 by breck on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:47PM (#19997144)

Thanks for the rephrasing.

I should rephrase as well. The language I am proposing offers much stronger control over ambiguity.

Take the 8th amendment: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

What is an "excessive fine" mean? In the language I am proposing it could be defined as is, or in something like:

... cellType dollarAmount number cellType fine dollarAmount cellType adjustedGrossIncome dollarAmount cellType universalExcessiveFineThreshold description As a percentage of adjustedGrossIncome constant .1 nodeType isExcessiveFine cells adjustedGrossIncome fine trueIf fine / adjustedGrossIncome > universalExcessiveFineThreshold ...

So you have more control over ambiguity.

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Re:YC's request for startups: Government 2.0 by umanwizard on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:37AM (#19998519)

But that’s not ambiguity at all — “giving judges leeway according to parameters defined in advance by legislators” is not the same thing as “statutes being ambiguous”.

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