pacology

joined 1 year ago
[–] pacology 7 points 1 month ago

My biggest pet peeve is that they sell you a service, at a certain speed, that you can only use for like 50 hours a month…

[–] pacology 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, thank you. It looks like the backslash just escapes the character??

[–] pacology 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Privacy =!= Protection from legal action

If you use your iPhone to conduct illicit business, the police can subpoena Apple and it will hand over your data (at least in the US).

Privacy in this context means preventing other apps from selling your data to brokers (e.g., location data) or using your phone information to do other stuff (e.g., AI training).

[–] pacology 10 points 2 months ago

This 🔝

Berlusconi had a similar political appeal. After he exited politics, his party went to the biggest in Italy to insignificant.

It will be really difficult for someone to pick up the Republican Party and run with the same platform as DJT. Many have tried it (e.g. de santis) but none is able to have the same success.

[–] pacology 2 points 2 months ago

The HOA would like to have a talk about the height of your grass and the color of the planters in front of your house.

[–] pacology 6 points 3 months ago

I assume that 80% of the users are on one or two instances. Maybe the operators of those instances could sell it to a big publishing company, like Condé Nast or something. That way it will be easier to vertically integrate advertisement between traditional print media, online publications, and less formal online gathering places. It’s a win win at the end. The original operators get their bag, and the community keeps going while being supported by a successful business.

/s

[–] pacology 1 points 3 months ago

Everybody thinking that trump is the second coming of berlusconi, when it turns out he is Craxi.

[–] pacology 25 points 4 months ago

Maybe it’s time to go to the court house and change their name to Lua?

[–] pacology 10 points 4 months ago

One that builds tractors? Italian “automotive” industry in the 1910s was pretty much all tied to agricultural machines.

[–] pacology 1 points 5 months ago

Of course. He is only a chatting predator or pedofile.

/s btw. I don’t know anything about the situation

[–] pacology 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here is the salient point on the Wikipedia page that explains why horses don’t produce 1 HP:

Watt judged that the horse could pull with a force of 180 pounds-force (800 N)

Basically, Watts made up HP to sell his steam engine to mines and likely made up a number to make the new technology seem better.

Some things never change.

[–] pacology 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with education. It’s commentary on the academic job market and how professors expect post docs to work for “exposure.

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