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The data here is super interesting. The tone and editorializing are idiotic. That being said, ultimately lawmakers are at fault. We need to start thinking of
by breck 5y ago
The data here is super interesting. The tone and editorializing are idiotic.
That being said, ultimately lawmakers are at fault.
We need to start thinking of law as code. We want to minimize the complexity of law, just like you want to minimize the complexity of code.
I have a new way to do that:
https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/paper3/countingComplexity.pdf https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/...
2D Languages will be the future of the law and democracy.
- vmception 5y agoAll the “rich people tax” articles have an idiotic tone as if they’ve found a smoking gun of …. something They really prey on ignorance
- rglover 5y agoAs well as envy and greed, though, they'll never admit it.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoThe lawmakers are quite literally the same people who advise rich people on taxes. The funniest thing I ever saw was an African civil servant who had gone private now telling foreign companies how to fuck the government he used to work for.
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- quickthrower2 5y agoWhat is a 2D language?
- breck 5y agoA language that can be near completely specified by a stack of 2D grammars of increasing abstraction. Binary notation is a general purpose syntax in 1 dimension. There exists a 2D general purpose syntax, where you not only have columns but all rows, and from there you can build abstractions from binary to numeral systems to letters to words to structs to systems.
- quickthrower2 5y agoSounds intriguing - do you have any links for further reading. I’m into “weird” paradigms like array based languages, lisps, prolog etc, but I’ve not heard of 2D
- breck 5y agoHere is the homepage. https://treenotation.org/ https://treenotation.org/ Lots of links and demos from there. Here's a video from earlier this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k) of a use case.
- quickthrower2 5y agoThanks. I live the idea of writing into the cells of a spreadsheet for exploration programming (like data science). I also like the simplicity of that tree notation and feel like it’s a great way to create a Python-like dsl Thanks for the links