I said the same thing in 1983: it's been 14 years since ARPANET, how long will we be in the early stages of the internet? It took 50 years of hard work before the day came when you could order a burrito from your couch. Sometimes change takes a generation or two. Be patient.
I wasn’t around then but my impression is that at that point in time basically no one saw the internet coming maybe aside from a few geeks. Utility came piecemeal and eventually the private sector took notice that there was money to be made and something big was here. Today everyone and their mother want to tell me how crypto will revolutionize everything and I just need to wait for it to actually be usable for anything that I care about. It seems very backwards to me. Why is there so much evangelizing and so little product I can actually use?
enum MyEnum { Ok(u8), NotOk }
fn main() {
let value = MyEnum::Ok(42);
assert!(matches!(value, MyEnum::Ok(_)));
match value {
MyEnum::Ok(x) => assert_eq!(x, 42),
MyEnum::NotOk => unreachable!(),
}
}
No unsafe to be found. The feature is there, it just has a different keyword than you might be used to -- the same way Haskell and Java both have something called "class" that mean different things.
If that's true, it sounds like companies have been weaponizing the legal system to get access to proprietary information from their competitors. Surely that has got to be illegal somehow?
The court decides whether a subpoena should be upheld or not. If the judge has signed off on this one, then it's all legit. Failing to comply would be contempt of court.
I'll never understand how US court system basically allow you to randomly force anyone unrelated to a case into it and suffer the legal cost. It make it so easy to weaponize any case to your advantage.
What if a ruling requires information held by someone else? Should the case just be dismissed because of lack of evidence? Having a functional justice system is probably worth some snags.
The legal cost aspect is unfortunate. However, as others have mentioned, the court probably doesn't require the assembly of new documents, but rather submission of existing ones. So while there is a cost, it's not devastating.
The interesting question is whether or not this specific subpoena has real merit, or if the court was played by Meta.
It doesn't look like they update it more than once a year. I guess we'll see where we stand next January (if we make it that long)