It is a rug I bought from Turkey. It works rather well.

Boss left the company we both worked at. About nine months later, I hated my new boss and wanted to quit; he offered me a job.

I’ve risen through the ranks since then.

It will still probably end up like email. There will be a working group, public or private, that defines minimum spam requirements. If you don’t comply, you’ll be defederated.

I’d like to see Japan deeply. I’d go all the way across the country and make sure to stay at rural spots along the way to enjoy the stillness between cities.

You’re also having a problem that the new forms of distribution don’t seem to replace the revenue of old forms. A lot of people hoped that they could replicate HBO’s approach to streaming, but it turns out that it doesn’t work well if every streamer tries to be premium cable.

And if you raise prices too much, people stop paying.

Zelenskyy probably read the room and had a plan in case something like this was going to happen.

Zelenskeyy walked away from this showing that the breakup with the USA wasn’t his fault and that he was willing to explore costly options for peace provided there were security guarantees. He then immediately went to Europe to tie up his support there.

If the USA is no longer going to support Ukraine, that was a great show to shift the blame onto Trump.

Because I want the future to say nice things about me.

No, but then I haven’t had the kinds of experiences you’ve had.

A problem with the constitution is that the framers didn’t expect items to be defined differently than today. No one really expected a mass deployment of troops that wouldn’t be called a war.

Also, the framers didn’t expect Congress to roll over as much as it has to the President.

Yep. There was a solid base pre-Covid that could be built off of as COVID was shown to be as bad as it was.

I also feel like a lot of vaccine rejection was built on having to justify that COVID wasn’t as bad as people were saying it was.

So they used the first two years to build a consumer user base in the way that RIM couldn’t and then was able to defend its market share.

The iMessage strategy couldn’t work if people didn’t buy in.

I call mine the Criterion Collection!

What else justifies 60% market penetration?

The iPhone came out before Android, so Apple had first mover advantage it could solidify to a sticky user base.

Also, a “free” Android experience only occurs when you’ve got full control of everything. Android was a lot more willing to give up control to third parties, including carriers. With Apple, you’re only giving control to one company.

Yeah. I watch some historic food shows and they make it a point to highlight that food was generally not as fresh or plentiful as today.

Most people talked about how the system was designed, but I’m going to ask about what you mean from a different point of view. What use would that system be?

Everyone carries around their own personal DNS in the form of an address book. It used to be a physical book; now it is integrated to your phone. There used to be a physical book of most people’s phone numbers, but that practice went away as spam calls became a larger problem and people stopped using the DNS book, the Yellow Pages, for looking up commercial numbers.

Second is phone numbers aren’t as valuable as IP address numbers.

The theoretical limit to phone numbers in the USA and Canada, which has a combined system, is 10 billion while not taking into account special numbers like 911 or that 555 numbers don’t work. That’s still enough for everyone within the USA and Canada to have a personal and work phone number with plenty to spare. If that becomes too much, the system can be changed to add more digita relatively easily.

In contrast, large parts of the Internet still works on IPv4. This is a problem as IPv4 only has about 4 billion IP address and every device has to have an IP address to work. I’ve got at least 5 devices that need an IP address to work while I only have one device that needs a phone number. So, the system of assigning IP addresses gets very complicated and DNS smooths that process to end users.

You can have users, but they need to participate.

Politics flood All because that is what most people post and upvote here.

Building a new community requires yelling into the void for a few months and heavy cross promoting to get any traction.

It isn’t being provided in a way I want to consume, so no.

Yes. Truth Social is a reskinned Mastodon that only federates with itself. I imagine there are other cases similar to that.