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Seems like it'd be smart to have a footnote or reference to the tragedy that informed the code on each section instead of allowing everything to be forgotten ev

• fsniper 4y ago
  Law needs Multiline comments!
• bcrosby95 4y ago
  For stuff like this, if you live in the region, you probably already know. Large earthquakes don't exactly happen every day. For example, if you want to get behind the "whys" of codes like this in CA, just look at: northridge earthquake, loma prieta earthquake, long beach earthquake, and the 1906 earthquake.
• layer8 4y ago
  That reminds me of how the C standard had a separate “rationale” document [0]. [0] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.1...
• ChainOfFools 4y ago
  This is sometimes done in a folk social engineering hack sort of way, by nicknaming certain pieces of legislation after those (usually children) whose tragedy inspired them. Amber's law, Megan's Law etc. But even this strategy already reached oversaturation. People just need to be more responsible, or else have fewer actions encoded as as rights instead of privileges.
• dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  The problem is that a hell of a lot of your foot notes are going to be "we want X but X is subjective so we're going to force you to do Y which can be objectively measured using Z, nobody has died or got injured yet but doing it this way prevents us from having any responsibility for judgement calls" If the code says no more than two wires under a staple you'll still have the intended effect if you put two small wires and one big one under a staple sized for the big one. But that requires judgement to get right so they just say two wires only.