181–190 of 246 posts
This is great. Compare it to British legislation which is frankly a mess of patches. Example picked fairly much at random, this law was originally passed in 1990 and has been "patched" regularly: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/9 Laws being passed are these ludicrous sets of patches: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/part/1
One idea behind the PoC Right to Privacy Act is having tests. A recurring theme with conservative Justices is clarity of legal text. Testing may not exhaust all scenarios but it is useful to see where loopholes may exist or whether a bill that sneaks in while you aren't paying attention is unfavorable to your values. https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/tests/te...
Is there something like this for the US?
Even if there were, it wouldn't be very useful. In a "common law" system like the US, legal questions are rarely answered purely by the plain text of a law. You also need case law - that is, how the law is typically applied in practice by the courts.
Is there something like this for the US?
Even if there were, it wouldn't be very useful. In a "common law" system like the US, legal questions are rarely answered purely by the plain text of a law. You also need case law - that is, how the law is typically applied in practice by the courts.
Using AI to plow through and make sense of all this would put us at risk of people knowing what the USG is getting up to.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I come from a society that doesn't value compassion that much, so now when I live in Spain which has a lot of it, it's hard not to feel good about it. Wish it was the same in more places in the world, we're all human after all.
Cold-blooded murder ~= "compassion". Got it. Cool.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I come from a society that doesn't value compassion that much, so now when I live in Spain which has a lot of it, it's hard not to feel good about it. Wish it was the same in more places in the world, we're all human after all.
It shows.
Is there something like this for the US?
Nice, I am going to this for Swedish law! Any suggestions on how one can model parliament voting when a law passes using GitHub? Or all the work that preceded a law, that’s like a feature request or a bug report.
Useful for alerts in our concern area, and monitoring proposed legislation iteration and flow through committees to keep ahead.
I can imagine quite a few other more civic interest uses as well!
Hoping to open source some later myself, seems an area ripe for some open civic citizen/hacker projects. Bet some fun startups could be made on top too, gl.