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- PGP released its source code as a book to get around US export law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation 47 comments
- The Point Of Code-Is-Law Is That It Enables New Types Of Legal Systems, That Would Not Be Possible Otherwise — Steemit https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@poesis/the-point-of-code-is-law-is-that-it-enables-new-types-of-legal-systems-that-would-not-be-possible-otherwise 18 comments ethereum
- American Universities Will Use Code Names to Protect Chinese Students from Beijing’s New National Security Law https://www.nationalreview.com/news/american-universities-will-use-code-names-to-protect-chinese-students-from-beijings-new-national-security-law/ 27 comments worldnews
- Trump’s ‘law and order’ is a code for maintaining personal power https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-the-law-and-order-candidate-thats-a-laugh/2020/07/14/17037e86-c610-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-f-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&fbclid=iwar0ra20huzyvixztnds0iga2tkuip1aynwtrvjxzs6dwe5auqiqzufma-pi 11 comments politics
- The Law of Demeter - Writing Shy Code http://codeahoy.com/2016/06/17/the-law-of-demeter-writing-shy-code/ 16 comments programming
- Morocco repeals 'rape marriage law':Morocco's parliament has unanimously amended an article in the penal code that allowed a rapist to escape prosecution if he married his underage victim http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/morocco-repeals-rape-marriage-law-2014123254643455.html 3 comments worldnews
- The Oldest Code of Laws in the World b.c. 2285-2242 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17150/17150-h/17150-h.htm 5 comments history
- Code is Law - The Daily Gwei #444 https://thedailygwei.substack.com/p/code-is-law-the-daily-gwei-444 9 comments ethereum
- Google threatens to disable search in Australia if media code becomes law https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-threatens-to-disable-search-in-australia-if-media-code-becomes-law-20210122-p56w2h.html 39 comments worldnews
- Stuck With Census Policy, More States Pass Laws To End 'Prison Gerrymandering' : Code Switch : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/12/31/761932806/your-body-being-used-where-prisoners-who-can-t-vote-fill-voting-districts 3 comments politics
- BTC is code, code is speech and speech is protected under US law. So is BTC free speech? Very interesting perspective. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/cxkqgr/btc_is_code_code_is_speech_and_speech_is/ 18 comments btc
- Uniform Civil Code draft handed over to law panel chief http://indianexpress.com/article/india/uniform-civil-code-draft-handed-over-to-law-panel-chief-4885969/ 3 comments india
- Nitin Gadkari opposes triple talaq, backs uniform civil code. “If a Muslim man rapes a woman, will he be tried under the Sharia law and lashed or lynched publically?" he said. http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/nitin-gadkari-opposes-triple-talaq-backs-uniform-civil-code/articleshow/55078476.cms 15 comments india
- Georgia sues Carl Malamud group, calls publishing state's annotated code of laws online unlawful http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/State_of_Georgia_sues_Carl_Malamud_says_he_published_its_annotated_code_of 15 comments law
- Taslima Nasreen: 'If you're truly secular, encourage Muslim women not to wear burqa and introduce a universal civil code. Discard personal laws based on religion' https://www.dailyo.in/voices/taslima-nasreen-freedom-of-speech-modi-mamata-banerjee-asaduddin-owasi-muslims-in-india-muslim-votebank-lynchings-burka-appeasement-bjp/story/1/30342.html 92 comments india
- Analysis: GOP tax law increased complexity of tax code http://thehill.com/policy/finance/401988-analysis-gop-tax-law-increased-complexity-of-tax-code 10 comments politics
- Government’s duty to implement uniform civil code, law minister tells Rajya Sabha http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/governments-duty-to-implement-uniform-civil-code-law-minister-tells-rajya-sabha/articleshow/50240311.cms 5 comments india
- Thousands of websites block Congress in Patriot Act protest - More than 10,000 sites have added code that redirects any visitors from Congress away from their site and towards a protest page. “Congress: This is a blackout. We are blocking your access until you end mass surveillance laws” http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243416-activists-black-out-websites-for-congress-in-patriot-act-protest?rss=1 17 comments politics
- Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/30/us-islam-views-survey-idusbre93t0tk20130430 580 comments worldnews
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ 1043 comments programming
- The Texas Abortion Ban Is History Revisited | Aspects of Texas’s new six-week abortion law are eerily reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Acts, which traumatized Black people for fear of being tracked, stalked and charged with violating the codes of slavery. https://msmagazine.com/2021/09/01/texas-abortion-ban-black-women-history-fugitive-slave-acts/ 35 comments politics
- How a fight over Star Wars download codes could reshape copyright law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/judge-slaps-down-disney-effort-to-stop-resale-of-star-wars-download-codes/ 5 comments technology
- Trump apparently didn't realize Steve Bannon will need Senate confirmation for the NSC - according to section (a)(6) of federal statute 50 U.S. Code 3021 of the law that created it http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-apparently-didnt-realize-steve-bannon-will-need-senate-confirmation-security-council/1282/ 3 comments politics
- Indian Muslim Personal Law Board boycotts debate on Triple Talaq, while saying a Uniform civil code is not good for India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/triple-talaq-debate-uniform-civil-code-not-good-for-nation-says-muslim-law-board/articleshow/54828399.cms 5 comments worldnews
- Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent -- By making a few changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has...upended a precedent that has been in place for more than 200 years http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/military-quietly-grants-itself-power-police-streets-without-local-or-state-consent 549 comments politics
- TIL The Goa Civil Code is a single set of civil laws that governs all the residents of the state of Goa, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or linguistic affiliation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/goa_civil_code 4 comments india
- Federal Jury Finds City of Chicago Responsible for "Code of Silence" in Chicago Police Department: The "code of silence" is now itself subject to the rule of law. http://truth-out.org/news/item/13510-in-significant-precedent-federal-jury-finds-city-of-chicago-responsible-for-code-of-silence-in-chicago-police-department 5 comments politics
- Gresham’s Law — Why Bad Developers Push out Good Developer and Developers Create Low Quality Code https://thehosk.medium.com/greshams-law-why-bad-developers-push-out-good-developer-and-developers-create-low-quality-code-9b6a8d15bffb 20 comments programming
- Modi weighs implementing Uniform Civil Code ahead of 2024 polls | The drafters of India’s constitution more than seven decades ago had laid out that a uniform civil code should replace these often regressive and patriarchal laws https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/modi-weighs-implementing-uniform-civil-code-ahead-of-2024-polls-1104594.html 28 comments india
- Code is law. China has now AI powered judges at it's online courts. That utilizes a WeChat miniapp for facial and voice recognition of the users as well to communicate the progress of their case. Court hearings can be attended from literally anywhere with internet. Now lawyer recquired. https://radiichina.com/china-now-has-ai-powered-robot-judges/ 28 comments programming
- Brunei says implementing Sharia law is about prevention rather than punishment, after intense criticism of its decision to implement the strict Islamic code. Under the new laws, adultery and sex between men is punishable by stoning to death https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47906070 755 comments worldnews
- I made a very simple script that flips a coin x times to demonstrate the Law of Large Numbers, and found my joy for coding again! https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/79bgkx/i_made_a_very_simple_script_that_flips_a_coin_x/ 4 comments learnprogramming
- Use the Fork Luke - (A reminder that Ethereum is only in it's second stage of development. It is inevitable that we'll run into issues and they'll need to be developed. But we still have two more stages before "code is Law" really takes effect) http://www.ethereum.net/news/technology/use-the-fork-luke-ethereum-hard-fork-update 7 comments ethereum
- BitTorrent Admins Face Six Years in Jail After Spanish Govt. Approves New Law. Amendments to the country’s penal code passed yesterday means that admins of sites offering links to copyrighted works without the owners’ permission will face jail sentences of up to six years. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admins-face-six-years-in-jail-after-spanish-govt-approves-new-law-130921/ 120 comments technology
- Ethics Law Necessary to Keep High Court Justices in Line. To the surprise of many, Supreme Court justices are not bound by any code of conduct. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/pubarticlenlj.jsp?id=1202615849383&ethics_law_necessary_to_keep_high_court_justices_in_line&slreturn=20130719112316 3 comments politics
- U.S. Tax Code Encourages Excess CEO Pay: n how U.S. tax laws encourage exorbitant executive pay and then grant tax breaks and reduced rates to those same executives as well as their businesses http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13695/tax_breaks_encourage_reward_excess/ 3 comments politics
- Crypto cynic Christine Lagarde defends ECB's decision to move goalposts on inflation target. A reminder that Code is Law. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/08/european-central-bank-shift-inflation-target-upwards-two-per-cent 6 comments cryptocurrency
- The Japanese government has decided to recognize a person's genetic information as personal information items to be protected under the law as genetic codes alone may lead to one's identification. http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20151117p2a00m0na012000c.html 11 comments worldnews
- Australia bans travel to Iraqi city of Mosul under new law. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the Mosul district in northern Iraq had been declared a designated area under a section of the Criminal Code created in October last year. http://news.yahoo.com/australia-bans-travel-iraqi-city-mosul-under-law-064420430.html 22 comments worldnews
- Mormon Church Joins Supporters for Progressive Immigration Reform, Helping Sink Arizona-Like Bill - According to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, “local law enforcement resources should focus on criminal activities, not civil violations of federal code.” http://www.alternet.org/belief/148900/mormon_church_joins_supporters_for_progressive_immigration_reform,_helping_sink_arizona-like_bill 3 comments politics