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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by yokem55 on Friday October 01, 2021 @10:10AM (#28718634)
Because 'code is law' is a terrible expression to begin with. Law can be expressed with code, but law is ultimately a construct of human consensus. In the case of the DAO hack, the human consensus forked away from the bugs in the code.
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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by wyager on Friday October 01, 2021 @10:51AM (#28719170)
There are many laws that have nothing to do with human consensus. Physical laws, for example.
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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by canjobear on Friday October 01, 2021 @11:08AM (#28719458)
Physical laws and legal laws don't have anything in common except the name.
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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by wyager on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:11PM (#28721742)
They have a lot in common. They are admissibility conditions under a rule system. Same thing with laws encoded in a computer system.

Your argument is circular; “code isn’t law because I’ve redefined the word ‘law’ to explicitly preclude it”.

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