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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by Earw0rm on Sunday January 30, 2022 @06:13AM (#30135931)
This works because of legal precedent.

The equivalent in code is pre-existing libraries, and miles of them. But the law has highly developed ways of ridding itself of cruft and tech debt over time, in a way that lib dependencies really don't.

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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by shkkmo on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:15AM (#30137365)
Legal precedent is a method for defining laws, not a requirement of a legal system. It is absolutely not essential to solve issues of incomplete, ambiguous, or invalid contracts.

The key factor is: human judgment

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