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The Law of the Sea
- hn_throawlles 3y ago[flagged]
- noduerme 3y agoThat's like saying Assembly language needs a rework because everyone codes in JavaScript. Just because it's too complicated for you to follow doesn't mean it would be better to dumb it down.
- wutangson1 3y agoIt is not saying that. And, if laws are too complicated to be followed, then they are useless to society.
- noduerme 3y agoFollowed by whom? Every law will end up being too complicated to follow for some fraction of society. Do you think Donald Trump should wriggle out of a lawsuit because the tax or election law was too complicated for him to follow? Law is CODE. The words are there in that order for many reasons that have been bug tested and are still being bug tested. Test the bugs! But don't claim you can't read the language.
- wutangson1 3y agoI feel like I responded to this above, but I’ll restate it. First, I’m not really following your logic. Not everyone is running for President, and are not potentially liable or guilty of breaking the law. No, law as ‘CODE’ is too monolithic. Citizens cannot face prison because actual life in society may or may run afoul of the law given its vague, ambiguous, or even self defeating language
- dendrite9 3y agoPlenty of things are useful to society even if they are too complicated for the vast majority to follow, experts are a good thing. What about code? Or structural codes? Or details about electricity generation and distribution?
- Defletter 3y agoWhile I can certainly agree that legislatures should strive to write laws as legibly as possible so that the general populous can understand the laws of their land, I also think we should be educated on how to read laws, where to find the information, etc, basically civics lessons. But to say that complicated laws are useless to society is beyond silly.
- wutangson1 3y agoRead what I wrote: “too complicated _to_be_followed”. Complicated laws should correspond to the complexity of the situation that society wants to regulate. Presumably, only those in society that engage in that area will be effected and know what the law means. Otherwise, you have a bureaucratic system which chokes its own people and it’s own growth.
- oh_sigh 3y agoNot exactly the same, but ARM v8.3+ processors have an instruction named FJCVTZS, which stands for "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero"
- dang 3y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic tangents. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- praptak 3y agoLaw of the land also has some edge cases. For example what happens to the state border in case of a major tectonic shift? Is the border where the GPS tells you it was or is it where the border poles are now?
- tinus_hn 3y agoIt’s where the people with the most guns say it is.
- patmorgan23 3y agoAh the Law of Bigger Army Diplomacy
- user6723 3y ago[flagged]
- JoeBtfsplk 3y agoI've had some peripheral involvement in the law of the sea. There is significant corruption. You can guess the buyers/bribers and sellers.
- cwillu 3y agoFull title is “The Law of the Sea Needs a Rewrite” <title>The Law of the Sea Needs a Rewrite — The Dial</title>
- toss1 3y ago>>The sea was fluid and constantly in movement; it was indivisible, unoccupiable, inexhaustible, indeed unalterable for better or worse via human activity. The last two properties — "inexhaustible, indeed unalterable" — have certainly turned out to be completely false as human activity scales up exponentially. and for better or worse turns out to be mostly worse, as we have fish populations crashing to near-extinction levels, garbage patches the size of smll continents... The impending breaking of the global food web may be more of an impending threat than climate change, and that's a rolling catastrophe