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This is fantastic. That's exactly how it should be. Otherwise over decades you end up with regulations that stifle all forms of entrepreneurship and creativity.
by novalis78 10y ago
This is fantastic. That's exactly how it should be. Otherwise over decades you end up with regulations that stifle all forms of entrepreneurship and creativity.
- nihonde 10y agoWhat is a unit of "regulation"? I can pack five thousand onerous rules into one document and eliminate two documents that contain guidance with very minor impact. Is that a net gain?
- good_gnu 10y agoAnd in this way you end up with 0 regulations, which I assume we are supposed to consider a feature, not a bug?
- D_Alex 10y agoOne regulation, at least you'd still have that.
- bmm6o 10y agoNext time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
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- anonbanker 10y agoWhat would happen if we applied this for 4 years on an existing codebase, such as the Linux Kernel?
- TylerE 10y agoMost likely support for obscure devices would disappear.
- anonbanker 10y agoTo be fair, that's already starting to happen[0]. do you think it would happen faster than it is today? 0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg
- alayne 10y agoPeople would fix the low hanging fruit and leave the hard/hairy parts that need work the most.
- tootie 10y agoIt's nonsense. Measure regulatory burden by number of rules is absolutely arbitrary.