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Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by airstrike on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:10AM (#35815603)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by snvzz on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:19AM (#35816786)
Seen this quote recently, in some book about RISC-V.
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Re:EARN IT Act Remains a Threat to Liberty, Security, & Safe... by malfist on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:34PM (#35889758)
That doesn't mean shorter is always better. When you take away necessary detail to make things shorter, you wind up with a shorter, less perfect law.

For instance, if the law was "No driving over 70mph on I-75", shortening the law to "No driving" isn't an improvement. And even if we maintain the detail and shorten to "No 70+mph driving @ I-75" it doesn't improve things.

Concise is good. shortness for shortness sake is not. We don't need to be playing code golf with laws.

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