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The world is a complicated messy place. A newspaper webpage has how many hundreds of pages of js code? 700 pages of legalese "source code" for a free trade agre
by andrepd 6y ago
The world is a complicated messy place. A newspaper webpage has how many hundreds of pages of js code? 700 pages of legalese "source code" for a free trade agreement between ~500 million people doesn't seem that bad.
- vmception 6y ago*1.5 billion?
- cambalache 6y agoNafta
- wenc 6y agoI believe parent is talking about NAFTA (or USMCA) countries. The population covered under the agreement is 493 mil.
- hartator 6y agoOr a huge room for corruption.
- wwweston 6y agoWish I could give this 100 upvotes. HN of all places should be a place where people understand that domain models matter, that precisely specifying them for either purposes of automation or legal formalization is going to involve significant descriptive effort, possibly even volume, and even apparently simple things -- from trade and health care down to how the arithmetic you think you're used to -- have a lot of complexity underneath them.