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 mean, maybe the company culture really is broken.
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 indeed!
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 sacrifice those interests in order to advance the goals of the wider society.
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?"
> 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 "temporary" state of emergency, and have been for 30 months now.
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 that would engage in "courtesy [sic] towing" probably has zero interest in fixing it.
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 skilled moderators for $D, they could be hiring N * \delta unskilled moderators for the same price.
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 banned for violating the Twitter rules. This decision is final and cannot be appealed."
When these bannings get publicized, however, the bad publicity often leads to the "permanent ban" being reversed, with Twitter simply explaining that the original ban "was a mistake". How does this sort of thing happen so often, unless random employees have access to powerful tools that they are not authorized or trained to use?
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 licenses to practice medicine.
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 recognition system. No matter what song I requested, about half the time it played "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John.
I was demonstrating this bug to a friend who asked "What happens when you request Tiny Dancer?" Sure enough, it played something else.