qplex

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by qplex 6y ago
>the ethical and monetary cost of a rodent suffering or dying due to unwanted effects of a drug candidate is judged to be lower than similar suffering in a human. Thank you for the insightful comment, I'll cite the part that is rele
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by qplex 6y ago
Sorry for my hazy morning scribbles. I meant real as in how this property often is employed to mold our reality or behavior. Indeed the information has more copies - or links (as a better analogy for brain structure). I should have made it
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by qplex 6y ago
In my humble opinion it's not that bright to think of animals as an utilitarian resource for the human race to plunder, or to consider their monetary value as any sort of a yardstick. Certainly if we hold these kind of ethics we'v
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by qplex 6y ago
Clickbait title. Advice to change it to reflect that Helium is just a marketing term for some new instruction set they have .
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by qplex 6y ago
In addition to affirming what I want by repetition, I try to generate logical ammunition for an argument: to think in depth how and why something is bad for me. It's very interesting how just repeating something makes it more "rea
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by qplex 6y ago
Anyone reading or creating PDFs to begin with should ask why even bother with such a static and outdated format that was made for when it was common to print out documents on paper to read them.
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by qplex 6y ago
Biggest internet thing of the past decade is the smartphone and anything related.
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by qplex 6y ago
If it's financial rock bottom as in that you need to make ends meet, to sustain yourself and your family, it's mostly the environment that dictates what can be done. If the situation seems absolute, as in that no suitable jobs ar
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by qplex 6y ago
Beside the heavy-ness, I've found the site unusable with mobile browsers because it constantly nags you in various different ways to "try out" their app.
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by qplex 6y ago
Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all.
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by qplex 6y ago
Indeed configuring Wine to run something can involve a lot from installing different depedencies to .dll overrides. Different configs for different applications are also a bit painful. But other than this, Wine is great.
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by qplex 6y ago
While this is about the best size for a phone, I want to point out that making a device for the user and maximizing corporate profit seem to be incompatible goals. Smartphones are no exception in this - the vendors are mostly interested in
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by qplex 6y ago
The current mainstream approach of western medicine does not follow this - eg. there is little evidence that anti-depression drugs actually cure depression, and the side-effects are horrible. Yet the pharma industry profits greatly by selli
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by qplex 6y ago
Cannabis extracts like charas - hash that is made from the resin have been around for thousands of years, and are way more potent than "narcotic skunk mutants".
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by qplex 6y ago
It was most likely the flowers of a female plant (that contain the seed) that were thrown on the rocks. Also, hemp == cannabis.
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by qplex 6y ago
While raw cannabis has some % of THC and CDB (among other compounds) it is the processed stuff like hashish or oils that really hold the crown for potency. This stuff has been around for a long time, much longer than the westernized commerc
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by qplex 6y ago
How are the geodesic domes supposed to help in comparison to regular greenhouses? Commercial orchids and greenhouses already grow vanilla and plenty of other stuff in automated hydroponic and aeroponic systems I fail to see what is so speci
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by qplex 6y ago
To completely stop doing tech professionally, or to ignore everything, to build up thick skin, and say "it's up to other people how my inventions are used." I'm curious to what you think is the fundamental nature of scie
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by qplex 6y ago
I think standardizing init to systemd across distributions has some benefits for everyone. SysV certainly wasn't and isn't the smooth experience either and took some time to grasp.
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by qplex 6y ago
It's kind of funny how systemd breaks often when old farts (like us) tinker with something in a way we shouldnt.
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by qplex 6y ago
>for a long time was content that I barely managed to remember the new syntax for starting and stopping services when the distributions I used switched to systemd. I've felt the same way, but then again I'm not really missing S
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by qplex 6y ago
>randomize its MAC address before searching for WiFi access points Indeed, things like start order and depedencies can be completely broken on systemd. Many problems arise from incompatibilities with legacy systems and interfaces. I had
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by qplex 6y ago
I agree that one can learn many things in life, and that there is some level of basic knowledge and skill that's very healthy for everyone to have. One of the cornerstones of modern society is however specialization; there simply isn&#
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by qplex 6y ago
Has anyone had positive experiences with systemd? Success stories because of feature x? I've pretty grim personal opinion of it, based on similiar experiences as this story. I'd rather just use a simpler approach (another init) th
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by qplex 6y ago
I run Debian on my 32-bit netbook. Currently Debian offers installers for amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el and s390x.
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by qplex 6y ago
>"emulating" the (fairly small) subset of the traditional Win32 and DirectX APIs required for typical games might even make sense on Windows itself, should Microsoft one day decide to deprecate I recently tried to run some WinX
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by qplex 6y ago
Sorry about that. It wasn't the point, as SARS is caused by many different strains of the same type of virus. The first outbreak of SARS-CoV was identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002. Thats almost 20 years ago. Also
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by qplex 6y ago
>Just trying to find the silver lining here. Oh, we could pretty much save the planet and live happily ever after if we could keep it like this. Only to find some rock barreling down on us some day, but ah... I digress.
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by qplex 6y ago
>The only thing that has prevented riots and general instability of governments is mass bailouts Yes. This is more to the point that the current economical doctrine is very much misguided. What I was of course talking about is how positi
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by qplex 6y ago
>factually incorrect It's not. SARS is from China. >not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere >essentially a game of chance It's 100% preventable. Just cut contact with wildlife that spreads these viruses. I&#

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