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We'd be interested to see how that'd look. Will contact you via email. Re jQuery: this is an emphasis in our copy for this post to Hacker News only. We've found that it helps techn…

Yes, "compile target" is a very nice way to put it. The key idea is that you only really analyze all the text when there's a problem, which tends to be the job of experts, and that…

One of the main ideas behind the system is using simplified language to "call" modules of legalese like software functions. This technique abstracts away a lot of complexity on the…

The primary problem with law is the technicality of the language, aka "legalese". At the moment, expecting someone off the street to properly understand a legal document is broadly…

I was considering this out the outset, but one of the benefits of sending responses this way is that other people I work with have started to use it (which they wouldn't if it appe…

Lately, I’ve been using a single character to respond to a lot of emails. I get through emails much faster (especially on my mobile), and the sender gets useful info back quickly. …

Yep - that's how the commercial technical detail is often dealt with. We're stretching (and slightly rejigging) the same concept to legally substantive text.

Hi everyone, I'm a contributor to LawPatch. We started this project because we wanted legal positions that we could call like functions (as if we were coding). Our aim is to make l…

Agree that foot / end noting is another good way to do it - the important thing is the drafting technique rather than the way it's implemented. We're using Github permalinks to cov…

The doctrines underpinning IP law are flimsy and arbitrary. It's normal for technology to change the balance of power (and the laws that enshrine that balance). In the current envi…

It would be great if a developer beyond the reach of the Western legal system would take this project up with a self hosted repo. Code is speech. It's a terrible precedent for devs…

Thanks, I didn't know that. According to Wikipedia, another of his nicknames amongst Israelis was "The King of Israel". That moniker at least, indicates that he was regarded as a f…

Nope, authored it here and then posted it on worldnews afterwards. That's quite clear from the timestamps.

Will attempt fast responses. Don't want to piss everyone off by getting too far into the weeds on a topic that probably shouldn't even be on HN. Also, I prefer coding to dwelling o…

All reasonable points, here's why you're wrong, though. First, I appreciate the acknowledgment that Arafat was indeed involved with Al-Aqusa (a terrorist group bombing Israeli civi…

It's simply incorrect to say that Arafat kept the radicals under control - there was clear evidence that he was involved with the militant / terrorist wing of his political party, …

Yes, Arafat was a known quantity to the US and Israel, but I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion. The fact was that Israel and the US viewed Arafat as a road block to a grand b…

At the risk of getting down voted on what is an emotional issue for a lot of people, here's my (quite realist) view. I was living in the West Bank when Arafat died, and I knew a bu…

Very well said. I agree entirely - there should be a concrete change as a result of this thread. It's impossible for a reasonable person to read the opinions of the well informed p…