Since communism is, by definition, classless, you cannot both be classist and communist.

Racism is, again by definition, incompatible with abstraction.

My conclusion is that you're pretty shaky on definitions.

It's good mostly for the owning class, though, since trickle down doesn't. Remember, the money is spent five times or so if it's handed to the poor, or only a couple of times if it's handed to the wealthy, before it sits around like a turd and stops employing anyone because it's no longer being spent.

Apple got to where it is now with the iPhone. Full stop. It was not a fluke, nor did it come out of the blue since the iPhone could not have happened without the Newton before it, because that was the motivation for Apple's investment in ARM.

As such, Apple should be continually casting a wide net to find the next thing. That means knowing that you will throw a certain amount of R&D money into the void and hoping that it will work out for you one day because you own the IP. This is, once again, a necessary and large portion of how the iPhone came to be such a wild success for Apple. The Newton was never a financial success for Apple even though they tried several iterations, and finally gave up on the platform entirely. But once the maturity of the mobile hardware had advanced sufficiently that the same OS that ran on the desktops could run on affordable handhelds, that experience and the foundation laid with the hardware could pay off. If Apple doesn't continue to make those attempts, then they are setting themselves up for eventual failure.

They obviously know this, and they have in fact pursued a reasonably diverse set of potential opportunities including automotive applications and AR, but as they are swollen with cash it is also reasonable to argue that they ought to be doing more. If they want the best chance at the next big thing, they've got to keep trying more new things. It also, by the way, employs more people...

You can trigger it against somebody else, you just won't be able to measure the bandwidth amplification factor if you do.

Speaking of which, 115 MB over 300 seconds is less than 400 KB/sec. If that is a significant burden on his server, at least one of three things is true: he's got way too many tiny assets in his web page design, he's running his web server on some tiny processor (like, microcontroller size), or he's using a terribly inefficient web server.

It seems like the sensible fix is to make it possible to pull that data from one Mastodon server to the next, whether this creates a standard or not is irrelevant to the particular problem. With my complete ignorance of the codebase this seems relatively trivial as tasks go given that they already have syndication features in the platform, but as there are many things I don't know about it perhaps there's some reason why this is difficult.

Let me expand on my statement. In my last comment in this thread, and as I stated, I was calling out the moderators who sought to suppress my questions.

In my comment before that, I was first asking you to support your assertion about the necessity of slavery, and secondly (and at least to some degree separately) I was asking you to support the idea that he deserved some slack because he was old. He's supposed to be a significant character not only for his factual observations but for his moral ones, so I'm inclined to hold him to a higher standard than average. Even at the time there were those who were not slaves who yet opposed slavery.

You can't just say slavery was a necessity and expect to go unopposed, can you?

https://www.gao.gov/assets/201...

Go back to school.

Plato was a big thinker but he suffered from "left-brain poisoning" which leads to over abstraction, including racism, classism, political parties, communism, and other mental disorders. "Plutonic Ideals" were supposed to be a though experiment originally.

Aristotle did major work to fix Plato's fuzzy-headed thinking.

If they teach that then most people will realize they are much closer to the Helot class of slaves in Athens than to free Citizens.

The extant reality is a cleverly-designed rouse fed by selected ignorance.

> community-powered, open-source project

Has someone written a feature to make this better and it's being ignored?

Or is this a matter of insisting someone else do something?

TBH it sounds like we need a standard for pre-rendered blurb and thumbs.

Extended OpenGraph for thumbs? Or does that exist?

Social media is moving to distributed no matter who dislikes that idea, so make it as efficient as possible, yes, but don't bitch about reality.

> Some of them are years old.

Decades, even.

You should learn about Columbus's colonies.

Some believe Jesus was an Essene, and they were into studying books, so if he existed and he was an essene then it's conceivable that he learned to read in the decades of his life where nothing was written about him.

I see that at least one of the people getting modpoints from this site is a proud defender of slavery. Keep it classy, B!zX.

They should check out the open bugs for Firefox or KDE sometime. Some of them are years old.