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by lightbyte 8y ago
I use Scaleway to host a personal Nextcloud [1] instance. I haven't had any issues with them thus far and their instances are pretty darn cheap. [1] https://nextcloud.com/about/
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Some people do, I believe generally the most acceptable (and humane) method is to spike the brain of the lobster before boiling it.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Yeah and it turned out that they were delusional and people just wanted caviar to eat it >Most of the men were buying female paddlefish, processing knockoff caviar and just … eating it. Illegal, yes. But the plot of a Russian mafia thril
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>like lobster going from "inedible" to haut cuisine due to scarcity. Lobster didn't go from inedible to highly desirable because of scarcity. It's because we learned that when you kill the lobster and let it sit arou
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by lightbyte 8y ago
I asked myself this a while back when I was feeding my tarantulas their weekly crickets and from my brief searches it seems like there isn't a general consensus on if inverts do or do not feel pain, but most people lean towards no. On
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by lightbyte 8y ago
It's easy to understand when you realize they aren't throwing you in jail to protect you, it's to make money off of you.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
In this case climate change denial and conspiracy theories are a mainstream opposition. >"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." -President of the
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by lightbyte 8y ago
From TFA: >The stuff sinks to the seafloor and wreaks havoc on ecosystems, cratering oxygen levels and spiking salt content. >Because this stuff is denser than typical seawater, it sinks to the seafloor and disrupts vibrant communitie
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>Back in 2015, though, GitHub was still an up-and-coming, independent company whose success came from making it considerably easier for other people to create computer software. GitHub was an "up-and-coming" company just three
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by lightbyte 8y ago
My favorite example: >In one case, West claimed to have matched the bite marks in a half-eaten bologna sandwich to the defendant. The jury convicted. (The conviction was overturned on appeal when defense lawyers discovered that the autop
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by lightbyte 8y ago
They did not use data from guitar tabs: >Guitar tab websites have tons of information about the chord progressions that songs use, but the quality is not very high. >So, over the past 2 years we’ve been slowly and painstakingly buildi
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>A satellite constellation is a group of artificial satellites working in concert. Such a constellation can be considered to be a number of satellites with coordinated ground coverage, operating together under shared control, synchronize
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Many people can't with regards to ISPs. I only have one provider that goes to my address.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
From TFA: >The Exos 16 TB hard drive using HAMR technology is now the world’s biggest HDD in terms of capacity overtaking the 14 TB Barracuda Pro. >HAMR, which is the acronym for heat-assisted magnetic recording, to be precise. This r
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by lightbyte 8y ago
I agree that it sounds uncomfortable for a child to make just a permanent life-changing decision like that, but the counter point is that transitioning is significantly easier on the body and mind before puberty happens.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>Police say Best was found "unresponsive" near the garage door exit of an apartment building A non-conspiracy possibility is he used the garage door to commit suicide, and the bouncing door is what caused the blunt force injuri
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Do they actually know that though?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>From their perspective, they are defending their land and people from invaders. In this case that is what it looks like from my perspective as well
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>those claims demonstrate the ignorance of the left regarding how right-leaning voters (who are overwhelmingly pro-israel due to their religious beliefs) think Those right-leaning voters are not pro-Israel because they like jews, they be
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by lightbyte 8y ago
That isn't enough information, what is the cost of living?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Strange that this guy's business was bankrupted by the anti-competitive practices of the company he loves so much yet he doesn't seem to be that upset about it.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Those people should feel hurt by the managers not paying them enough not customers who chose not to pity pay them
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Does this mean companies with no women on their board need to fire a current board member on the sole basis of their gender? Isn't that discrimination based on a protected class?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Constitutional crisis is an appropriate term for the UK, it has happened twice before: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>Doc slipped his finger up my bum Is this a standard way to diagnose appendicitis?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Unless they can verify it some other way, I highly doubt any reputable journalist would publish something like that. When a journalists publishes something based on a source that wishes to stay anonymous they are putting their career and r
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Aren't they supposed to be judging whether the prosecution has presented enough evidence for there to be no reasonable doubt that the defendant did commit the crime?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
I wouldn't call the Inca Empire a "tiny fiefdom", at its height they had 10 million citizens and covered 2 million km2
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by lightbyte 8y ago
The Inca Civilization had no money was was pretty darn successful http://www.discover-peru.org/inca-economy-society/
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>Communism is a society without money, no such thing existed on a state level anywhere. While it might not be something you can compare to communism, the Inca Civilization had a centrally planned economy with no form of money at all and

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