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by pixl97 604 days ago
There is no such thing as common sense application of the law because, seemingly, there is no such thing as common sense.

The world is not a simple and easily defined place. We see this in computer code all the time. It can start out simple, but humans both want and need things added. These added things can conflict. People can exploit things in complex manners that no one previously thought of which then needs further updates. Complexity never goes down it increases over time.

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> Complexity never goes down it increases over time.

Recent discussion of Tog’s Paradox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913437