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0 pointsblunte5y ago0 comments

I find it hard to believe that even a top performing law school grad would be a subject matter expert comparable to a 5 or 10+ year developer for this topic.

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ledauphin5y ago· 1 in thread

(speaking as a software developer) this dramatically underestimates the intelligence of top lawyers relative to average software developers, and also misunderstands the facts of how law works (the subject matter expertose required is still mostly in law rather than in software development).

blunteOP5y ago

Intelligence is not equivalent to experience. A very intelligent person might be able to consume and comprehend information better than a normal person, but they will still not understand some nuances and subtleties that only come from lengthy firsthand experience.

11235813215y ago

A great deal of (conflicting!) SME testimony has already gone into this case.

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