[VerifiedReports]

Definitely not. The article does go on to acknowledge this:

"The result of this volume bias in the system is an onslaught of low-quality legislation. Compliance is often impossible. A BusinessEurope analysis cited by the Draghi report looked at just 13 pieces of EU legislation and found 169 cases where different laws impose requirements on the same issue. In almost a third of these overlaps, the detailed requirements were different, and in about one in ten they were outright contradictory."

Whenever I hear a politician patting himself on the back for how many pieces of legislation he got passed, I cringe at the thought of all the junk in it.

[9dev]

It’s amazing how similar legislation is to software engineering in that regard: It all comes down to managing complexity. A good law is achieving its effect with as little special case handling in as few lines as possible while covering most of the problem space.

[johncolanduoni]

Glad to see software engineers aren’t the only ones that count lines well past the point that they should be.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

"Just ship it, we can patch any problems later..."

[baud147258]

Just ship it, it will be someone else's problem