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Now /that’s/ some bureaucracy
by LastTrain 3y ago
Now /that’s/ some bureaucracy
- edgyquant 3y agoIt would result in them being shorter
- malfist 3y agoIs shorter better?
- airstrike 3y agoPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- malfist 3y agoThat doesn't mean shorter is always better. When you take away necessary detail to make things shorter, you wind up with a shorter, less perfect law. For instance, if the law was "No driving over 70mph on I-75", shortening the law to "No driving" isn't an improvement. And even if we maintain the detail and shorten to "No 70+mph driving @ I-75" it doesn't improve things. Concise is good. shortness for shortness sake is not. We don't need to be playing code golf with laws.
- snvzz 3y agoSeen this quote recently, in some book about RISC-V.
- lockhouse 3y agoShorter makes it harder to stuff it full of pork.
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- LastTrain 3y agoIt would result in a pointless formal exercise simply designed to make things more difficult without any tangible benefit. Bureaucracy.