Does that mean they are gunning to become AI Central? I mean, this was probably going to happen in Russia anyway, or any other country that doesn't care about Copyright. So I guess that cat is out the bag?
You are 100% correct. I know of hordes of people being banned for the most ridiculous reasons. And it's always a power-hungry mod. And it would be fine if they were just banned from a sub, but I've seen guys get banned completely for the most stupidest reasons.
I use a command line browser (lynx) to log into my bank account and scrape my data because APIs are not coming to town any time soon. I actually use Lynx to scrape a bunch of different things. Much easier than trying to log into a site using CURL etc.
Can't answer all of the questions now, but if you are living in a small space, then I highly recommend "Adjustable Weights". I have the type where you turn a dial on the weight and I can get anything between 4 and 20 kgs. It's pricey, but a lot cheaper than buying all the weight sizes you want, or struggling with those weights you have to twist onto a bar. The convenience is what makes it great, but the small space it takes a major plus.
I've run into a few cases where recursion was the only logical way to do it. For example, printing out a nested tree as a menu. It should only be used when necessary because if you don't know what you are doing, you can easily create a function that runs much longer than it should.
Did anybody ask for a new git? And if they did, of all the entities in the world, why would Facebook be the guys we trust with that? It's already hard trusting Github.com.