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>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…

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…

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 yardsti…

Clickbait title. Advice to change it to reflect that Helium is just a marketing term for some new instruction set they have .

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 interesti…

Anyone reading or creating PDFs to begin with should ask why even bother with such a static and outdated format that was made for when it was common to print out documents on paper…

Biggest internet thing of the past decade is the smartphone and anything related.

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 situati…

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.

Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all.

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 pain…

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 …

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 ar…

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".

It was most likely the flowers of a female plant (that contain the seed) that were thrown on the rocks. Also, hemp == cannabis.

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 arou…

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 hyd…

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…

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.…

It's kind of funny how systemd breaks often when old farts (like us) tinker with something in a way we shouldnt.

>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 sa…

>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 inc…

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 moder…

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 ra…

I run Debian on my 32-bit netbook. Currently Debian offers installers for amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el and s390x.