Re:Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
by gspr on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:08AM
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Indeed. And even though I consider myself a technical person through and through, I wouldn't want the law to work like that. We, as humans, are not capable of specifying society's functioning at that precision. We need the fuzziness of humans in the loop.
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Neither would I. Though every now and then I wouldn't dislike to be bound to rules that I can evaluate in advance, without having to bet on what a judge's a posteriori interpretation will be.
This is one of the services lawyers who are specialized in the area can provide; they will know the case law around particular rules, etc.
Tax Law is especially interesting here, because you can basically depend on what the IRS has said but there's a chance that even if they said X, the tax court will actually rule Y (in your favor). Sometimes the risk can be worth it (if you made a good-faith effort to comply with a reasonable understanding of the law, and the court rules against you, you just have to pay the tax; even if you were found unreasonable you pay the tax + penalty which often isn't that much).
I agree. But other times I'd also very much dislike being bound by "code" that the democratically elected lawmakers agree is buggy (buggy compared to their and the electorate's intentions).