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Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com) 172

Posted by yaelk on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:44PM from the #whichhillary dept.

An anonymous reader writes with the key claim of a story at The Daily Kos: In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activist @GuerrillaDems. Twitter also removed #WhichHillary from trending status, which is odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets in less than 24 hours. Twitter now says the suspension of @GuerillaDems was a mistake. Although this may just be a coincidence, it isn't the first time Twitter has exerted political control. Many users think it is a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani's Sunday, 2/28 fundraiser with Clinton. The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear "whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence."

Comment Re:modded up without sources? (Score 1) 525

by folarte on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:37AM (#48513103) Attached to: Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates

To the third power actually.

Someone didn't take thermodynamics.

I've been tracking the data myself with torque. Fuel consumption per unit time increases with the square of speed because after 65mph drag does.

Someone has got his units mixed. Fuel volume is (can be converted to) energy, fuel per unit time is power. Drag is force. Force times distance is energy, Force times speed is power. Drag, a force, goes with the square of speed, as the drag related term of fuel consumpion per distance does. Power goes with the drag ( square speed ) times speed, as the drag related term of fuel consumption per time does.

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