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People get layed off from companies all the time. Why is it the end of the world when it happens at Twitter?

I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. …

> "I promise you: We will be able to do it." While the idea was almost certainly to warn Putin, it doesn't seem very smart to me to have said it out loud.

I suspect many countries know who did it, but think it is not in their best interests to either admit that they know, or let others know that they know. International intrigue inde…

I always read the story as a warning against forced collectivism. Specifically, forcing people to act against what they believe are their own individual interests, and instead sacr…

Here is one of my favorite videos from the early days of the web. Two popular morning television hosts discuss the at-symbol and ask "what is internet, anyway?" https://www.youtube…

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> to temporarily give the government additional power to deal with emergencies. I just want to point out that, according to the U.S. federal government, we are still in a "temporar…

I'm somewhat skeptical that giving more power and discretion to federal regulators will result in increasing freedoms for the American people.

Who are you gonna believe? Two forms of government issued paperwork, or your buddy on the other end of the radio? /s

I can think of a spec for a simple application that would fix all the problems associated with "courtesy [sic] towing". However, it also seems pretty clear that any city government…

Twitter stores the IP address associated with every Tweet. If someone posts an illegal tweet (say, criticizing the CCP, or supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong or Taiwan)…

Or Cake by the Ocean Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VfJqHwYKs

> Forcing private entities to host speech they don't want to goes against what I define as freedom of speech. What if the private entity is suppressing speech at the behest of the …

You should spend some time on a college campus. Shouting down speakers and deplatforming non-progressives is more common than one might think.

If there aren't enough moderators, wouldn't the likely result be fewer rule-breaking accounts banned rather than more non-rule-breaking accounts banned? Maybe, instead of hiring N …

You mean like when your company faces an existential crises, but the CEO can't be reached because he's on a vision quest?

In the political Twitter neighborhoods that I inhabit, there have been many cases over the years of people having their accounts yanked, with the only message being "You have been …

Licensure of physicians in the U.S. is controlled by medical associations through state licensing agencies. They have an incentive to limit the number of people who receive license…

I used to own a Ford Fusion with an early version of Sync. The car itself was great. The Sync software by Microsoft, however, was not. One of the innumerable bugs was in the voice …

Isn't that what the old-timers call distributed systems?

If a private individual can do this, imagine how easy it is for the U.S. government to suppress content that it doesn't like on social media.

> For the people who buy one of each color and then return all but one Amazon's "try before you buy" encourages people to do just this, so I'm guessing Amazon has figured out how t…

I think the problem is that Amazon returns are not inspected by someone associated with the manufacture of the product. I suspect that return handlers have to handle thousands of p…

The clothing company LL Bean dealt with this same sort of issue. It used to be that if you weren't happy with a purchase, you could return any item you bought from Bean, at any tim…