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by tblt 5mo ago
Do we know if this pattern is just something we've observed so far, or is it a natural law?
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by tblt 1y ago
Despair seems eminently logical in your situation; I felt it, when I put myself in your shoes, reading your comment. That is not to say it need take precedence, or supremacy, to that most human of emotions: hope. I have hope, that you and y
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by tblt 2y ago
To be issued a virtual card number, you need only be a bank customer
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by tblt 3y ago
Choose your retailer with care
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by tblt 3y ago
Could you share what some of these substances are?
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by tblt 3y ago
The good news is, you absolutely can tell a total stranger about your recent mishaps, or worries or problems or whatever! Services like The Samaritans exist just for this and many people find them extremely beneficial.
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by tblt 3y ago
There are hosted DNS solutions, I use NextDNS to good effect but I'm sure there are others
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by tblt 3y ago
As a massive fan of the Culture series, does anyone have recommendations for other excellent sci-fi books?
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by tblt 4y ago
I've seen houses with ground bonded to the copper water/gas pipes...and upon further inspection they were supplied with plastic piping outside of their property boundary. Yikes. My understanding is that neutral goes to ground at t
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by tblt 4y ago
At the distribution point, usually. Some gas networks intended for industrial use don't contain the chemical that makes gas smell as that gas is an input in a chemical process, not burnt for heat.
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by tblt 4y ago
Unlike your standard VPS hosts (DigitalOcean etc.), a good seedbox host will take your inevitable DMCA notices and file them in the shredder.
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by tblt 5y ago
How did you find the change in display size?
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by tblt 5y ago
I thought it was £50bn and was the total allocated budget of NHS Test & Trace to include PCR testing and contract tracing, as well as LFT distribution etc. It has not been spent yet and with the current rolling back of testing the final
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by tblt 5y ago
They may have done this to run a single cable to supply both data and telephony/door intercom etc on the other pairs. I agree it's not ideal.
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by tblt 5y ago
> Wipr doesn't do anything, literally As somebody currently using Wipr and not seeing any ads, would you mind bridging the gap between your assertions and my reality? Genuinely curious how we could be truthfully so out of step on t
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by tblt 5y ago
Are you saying this is a good feature of Revolut, or that you'll be switching to Revolut because of this incident? Personally I'd be happy with this level of fraud protection, as a previous victim of fraud.
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by tblt 5y ago
> consolidate into 2-3 megabanks like in the UK The UK has greater industry competition in the form of challenger banks than the US
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by tblt 5y ago
This is an underrated observation - you could target 1000 people for £100 each, or you could put your time and effort into targeting and tricking the whale for £100k, a payout worth putting the homework into.
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by tblt 5y ago
> The internet is responsible for 3.7% of global carbon emissions Given all the trade, commerce, learning, community, education, entertainment, and countless other benefits and multipliers the internet brings, I can't help but feel
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by tblt 5y ago
Anecdotally, the petrol stations near me ran dry today. Whilst I’m sure this will blow over soon, I can’t help but hope this act as a catalyst for EV adoption here.
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by tblt 5y ago
> I’d expect the driver may find their car burnt out sooner rather than later Forgive my ignorance, does anti-UK sentiment really run this deep in Ireland today or is this hyperbole?
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by tblt 5y ago
Is it a given that France or the UK would deploy their nukes in response to, for example, Russian aggression on Europe’s eastern flank, say Estonia? If not, their use as a deterrence there is limited.
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by tblt 5y ago
Beware, however, that the carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks causes the water to become acidic, which is bad for the enamel on your teeth.
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by tblt 5y ago
As a resident of another very walkable European city, I love the ease and affordability of e-scooters. They haven’t replaced walking for me, they’ve replaced the longer trips where I might take a bus, train or taxi. They’re cheaper, more co
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by tblt 5y ago
It's my understanding that efficacy cannot be directly compared like this, as it's a function of what variants were around during the trial, amongst other things. I believe Vice produced a good video on this recently. Importantly,
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by tblt 10y ago
My Bluetooth devices work flawlessly with my iMac, including the Magic Mouse/KB etc. What's your RF environment like?
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by tblt 10y ago
Can you go into more detail about what a regular western diet is and how your new diet differs?
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by tblt 11y ago
Interesting theory, I'd have assumed it's a combination of cheaper bandwidth, better peering arrangements and a population almost twice the size of the US.
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by tblt 11y ago
Recent changes to iOS allow side-loading[1]. In answer to your point about the majority's ignorance, I suspect the reasons are varied but if there's a way to circumvent these kind of protections, non-technical users can be coerced
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by tblt 11y ago
> Current mobile software really sucks in pretty much every way and there's nothing more to be said I don't know what perspective you are coming at this from, but from my experience with non-technical iOS users, installing&#x2F

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