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> The law will prohibit Environmental Conservation Law permits from being issued for two years to proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining operations that are operat
by Cyberdog 4y ago
> The law will prohibit Environmental Conservation Law permits from being issued for two years to proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining operations that are operated through electric generating facilities that use a carbon-based fuel.
Not really clear at what point your mining approaches an "operation" which requires a permit, but perhaps that's spelled out in some other law somewhere.
I love the two year time limit. I'd love for it to be constitutionally mandated that all laws have to have a time limit of no more than five years or so. If the time passes and the law isn't renewed, into the incinerator that law goes.
- bragr 4y ago>but perhaps that's spelled out in some other law somewhere. It's literally in the text that you quoted. If they need a permit to operate a fossil fuel powerplant for mining, the answer is now no for 2 years.
- realce 4y agoLegislating would collapse under the simple iterative maintenance of such a policy. Every year would be N+(this year's new legislation).
- sokoloff 4y agoPerhaps society doesn't need an ever linearly-increasing body of laws?
- enraged_camel 4y agoLife today is immensely more complex than it was in the past, and you need to pass new laws (and amend the older ones) to keep up with it.
- throwup 4y agoI don't think the set of laws should be growing boundlessly year after year. Another idea is to adapt the house cleaning rule: to pass a new law, you must first get rid of an old law.
- geysersam 4y agoWhy put such arbitrary restrictions on our elected lawmakers? Reducing regulatory complexity is a worthwhile goal, but that's a bad way of going about it.
- enraged_camel 4y agoJust imagine: the day after the new search feature goes live, the product manager comes to you and asks where the user profiles have gone. You say, "oh, I removed them - I think it's a good idea to remove an existing feature after adding a new one! Complexity, after all, is bad!"
- BlueTemplar 4y agoIf you try to show all the icon bars in Office at the same time, you'll end up with half of your screen buried under them. There are diminishing returns.
- polygamous_bat 4y agoReplace "laws" with "features" or "lines of code" in your comment. Read it again. How much sense does it make?
- Cyberdog 4y agoMy friend, I don't think that's the epic airtight gotcha that you think it is…
- polygamous_bat 4y agoYou did not explain why, though. So I must remain here in my belief that my argument makes clear sense.
- saalweachter 4y agoHint: this is a feature for people proposing this sort of thing. They want legislating to be pared down to where nothing is regulated, and the only crimes are property crimes. Everyone else just likes stability, knowing that the law tomorrow will mostly be the same as the law today.
- tgv 4y agoI'm not in favor of such short time limits. How can you possibly review all laws every couple of years? That would put even more pressure on the legislative branch, with the result that each and every rule is passed unseen, and everyone loses time anyway.
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- TheCowboy 4y agoSunset clauses often just end up wasting everyone's time at best, and a common worst case is it creates a platform for political brinkmanship and grandstanding around passing an extension that should be straightforward.