Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
by krferriter on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:18PM
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Yeah both the UK and US are notorious for NIMBYism. People filing lawsuits as like a hobby, because they want to stop all development. In these countries it's far to easy for a small group of complainers to grind the entire system to a halt and burn endless amounts of time and money. It seems particularly bad in the anglosphere.
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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
by dontlikeyoueith on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:28PM
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It's particularly bad in the anglosphere because we have common law legal systems that are built around resolving personal disputes in court.
This has upsides -- it was a good solution to the problem in the 1200s of people solving disputes by fighting it out -- but in a modern context the downsides are pretty high thanks to rent-seeking lawyers.