The actual free speech violation is the federal government withholding research funding based upon what the organizations and people receiving the funding say publicly. This person was pointing out what the Republicans are doing right now.

but unfortunately, due to deficiencies and how the American legal system works, this person can’t actually sue the government for mass violation of constitutional rights. Despite all of us being harmed by what the Republicans are doing, we wouldn’t actually be able to show “standing” to have our suit be heard.

Of course, we run up into the larger, structural problem in American law: we’d have to be obscenely rich to even be able to sue. In such a Court) case could take years before any action could even start.

> it was claimed Boring Co has no chance of duplicating or significantly improving on the speed

The claim holds up. The article shows evidence that this is not faster than existing transport at all. It is in fact slower. How did you not read this??

> Now, after Loop demonstrated vehicle rates that would beat most light rail projects

They did not demonstrate this. Why put this lie out there?

> that it has minor usability quirks

Major usability problems. It is strictly worse than every existing transportation system.

If you want to learn, go trace how deep learning was funded. It started off with USPS.

Not quite true. The unifying error trait is std::error::Error.

> pain when you have to pass them upward through a chain of calls

Kind of? You just make an enum with the various variants that need to be passed through and use the #[from] macro to generate the conversion code automatically.

It’s more characters than eg. A union type in Python or TypeScript, but it’s not much more.

Plus, it makes you think about your error design, which is important!