Because Uber and Lyft drivers should be fucking employees. I don't give two shits if the taxi industry is disrupted, but I do care about the treatment of their drivers.

"fast"

Wtf world do you live in?

In all fairness the article says:

"Despite its official sound, it is not actually a scientific rule like Newton’s laws of motion. Instead, it describes the pace of change in a manufacturing process that has made computers exponentially more affordable."

It is amazingly interesting and coincidental that the 'law' seems to hold true, year after year.

Is there a solution yet in Rust to this problem of, monadic-ish constructs like Result and Option, but no nice way to chain them together without hideous nesting, like Haskell's "do" or Scala's "for"?

In the special case of Result, the new ? operator is going to subsume try! and offer more flexibility:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243 (note that what was actually accepted differs from the text of the RFC, you need to scroll to the bottom)

As steveklabnik says, there's nothing resembling generalized monadic do notation for now.

We don't have HKT and therefore we can't have real do notation. The mdo crate provides a duck-typed macro.

.and_then calls themselves aren't too bad, with the right whitespace.

Why not take them to small claims court?

Yeah. We can still talking about paypal policy, instead of topic.

So do you think it's reasonable that contempt of court can carry a life sentence without even being convicted by a jury of your peers? Is contempt of court a worse crime than assault or manslaughter?

You have the right to not divulge information from your mind that would incriminate yourself. In the US this is called the 5th amendment.

There's no jury because it's regarding acts that occurred in court, so it's simply not meaningful to have a jury decide the facts of the case when they happened right in front of the judge, who does not need anyone to figure out the veracity of what they just personally witnessed.

The alternative is that people have a right to stop the courts from functioning. Our interests in not having courts that can be easily thwarted probably does outweigh our interests in any single conviction.

It's only forever if you refuse to comply for that long. It is coercive. The justice system does not, because it cannot, ask you to comply. It forces you to comply and it does not take no for an answer or it would not function.

Before you're given contempt for not divulging information you are given immunity from criminal charges as a result of that testimony.

Source? That is certainly not true in general.

As GP said, that's not true in general. Immunity is offered when the prosecution believes your testimony will result in further arrests or in prevention of future crimes. That circumstance is exceedingly rare outside of episodes of "24".

While this comparison highlights that yes, there are very many possible Go games, it's really apples to oranges.

The real comparison would be the number of pieces on a Go board (19x19 = 361) compared to the number of atoms in the universe. And then to compare the number of possible board positions in Go, with the number of possible atom positions in the universe, and in this case I think the universe wins.....

especially considering all go boards exist _within_ the universe!

Anybody who knows anything about human behaviour will know that it was a failure from the beginning. If there is strong demand for the resources in the moon, powerful people will move in and take them. Watch what will happen with the Arctic as its oil becomes more accessible.

A law or treaty is only as good as its enforcement mechanism.

Well, I've cancelled my account. Who needs Netflix when I've got BitTorrent?