It's already standard in many agencies for employee credit cards (IBAa or individually billed accounts) to have their spending limit set to $1 when the employee is not traveling. When travel is approved, the spending limit is temporarily raised based on the estimated travel costs. These cards are mainly used for hotel and rental car charges; federal employees are given a per-diem reimbursement when traveling to cover meals and incidentals, which they pay out of their own pocket. You can see per diem rates at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates . This move seems like something that makes a great sound bite but isn't actually a problem.
“I believe “Twitter poisoning” is a real thing. It is a side effect that appears when people are acting under an algorithmic system that is designed to engage them to the max. It’s a symptom of being part of a behavior-modification scheme.
“The same could be said about any number of other figures, including on the left. Examples are found in the excesses of cancel culture and joyless orthodoxies in fandom, in vain attention competitions and senseless online bullying.”
I think it was clear early on that Swift is the future of iOS development. But if you’ve been around long enough, you’ll have observed that it takes about 10 years for a new language and associated tooling to reach “maturity”. What “maturity” means is debatable, but one aspect is that the ecosystem grows to handle the extreme edge cases like very large scale development. And boy was Uber pushing the edges of what was possible on iOS at the time.
So by my way of thinking, they moved at least a couple years too early. (The Swift project started internally in 2010, first public release in 2014, Uber’s rewrite started in 2016.)