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by epanchin 7y ago
A good lesson for anyone considering user unfriendly features.
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by epanchin 7y ago
That’s not entirely accurate. They have the power to stop and search where they believe you have been involved in a crime or are carrying a prohibited item. They must have grounds to suspect they will find what they are looking for.
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by epanchin 7y ago
Borrow a phone, use a pay phone with reverse charging if required.
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by epanchin 7y ago
How would international calls work?
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by epanchin 7y ago
Most locks are very easy to replace... with the help of YouTube anyone could change a standard lock. I’ve done it everywhere I’ve lived at a cost of £3-10 a lock.
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by epanchin 7y ago
Two weeks still sounds like a considerable float to lend from.
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by epanchin 7y ago
Without verbatim: The source of the problem was a homemade battery-operated device designed by a local resident to alert him if someone was upstairs when he was working in his basement. It did so by turning off a light. “He has a
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by epanchin 7y ago
Scotland too, frequently spelt ‘use’
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by epanchin 8y ago
In Oman you pay near spot price for jewellery. If you ever fancy some big gold chains, it could be worth a visit. Cool country, wild camping is legal everywhere.
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by epanchin 8y ago
On the off chance you’re in London, you can hold one in the Bank of England museum. Not quite the same as holding your own gold bar, but £400k cheaper.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Equifax is not listed on Privacy Sheild, so can’t export EU user data to the USA. Experian seems to be listed though.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Isn’t it crazy how worked up people get about Alexa, etc., conviently forgetting about the always on microphone they’re carrying around with them every day.
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by epanchin 8y ago
I understood this statement (“whoops, probably on a list now”) to mean that the government is always listening for key words, and using one would assign someone to listen to every word.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Docility is a social network for psyicians, hardly a strange place to use medical terms.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Much easier to charge users using their own credit cards. Don’t see what crypto is solving here? In your email example, what is the advantage to you over charging a subscription? How do you create ongoing revenue?
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by epanchin 8y ago
Encrypting something today is no guarantee that it’ll still be encrypted in 20 years. If you encrypted something in 1999 with 56-bit key DES, your data is no longer private.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Napster started in 1999. Search was centralised, but downloads were p2p. Edit: it shut down in 2001, and everyone I knew at the time was using it. vanderZwan might have misused the word torrent, but the rest of his post is spot on.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Pollution in cities causes huge health issues. Displacing that pollution is a big priority. Centralising electricity generation makes it easier to switch to renewables later on. Also, higher grid usage means more investment. (China is alrea
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by epanchin 8y ago
In this case, you either punish a particular person, or punish everyone else through increased average premiums.
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by epanchin 8y ago
This is more like advertising your insurance company in women’s magazines to pre filter your customers without offering different prices based on gender. As the insurance company couldn’t determine your driving ability themselves, and there
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by epanchin 8y ago
Has Apple offered an upgrade able laptop alongside a non-upgradeable one? Would be possible to draw that conclusion if they sold a new style MacBook Pro alongside an older style one with similar specs.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Like many people, I use spotify for music discovery. I don’t feel Apple Music can offer the same quality of recommended tracks for me/moods.
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by epanchin 8y ago
A better analogy would be a bar owner evicting someone who politely disagreed with them, while simultaneously allowing a fascist group to drink, telling punters who complain about them he just serves drinks and will serve them to anyone who
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by epanchin 8y ago
Doesn’t quite solve your issue, but creating a bookmark folder “trip planning” and saving all relevant sites into it and the folder onto your bookmarks bar - then right click on the new folder and click open all. I have a few sets of pages
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by epanchin 8y ago
What an unfortunate attitude. You chose to live there and that noise got you a bigger house, you’ve sold your right to complain. The A380 is not loud on take off - are you sure you’ve got the right plane?
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by epanchin 8y ago
(Some) Airlines make money selling to passengers. For example - Ryanair’s entire business model revolves around selling you extras. No passenger, no profit.
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by epanchin 8y ago
One could easily host their own VPN and trust only themselves. You could further connect to a vpn service if you wanted anonymity, although that would of course require trusting them.
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by epanchin 8y ago
I’ve also experienced this. I have also found that often on the motorway the lane isn’t really closed, so I have no intention of changing my behaviour.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Leveno sells new original batteries for old thinkpads. I have a x230 with a new battery and it lasts >8 hours.
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by epanchin 8y ago
Why does Steve like the BMW 3 series? I contend it is due to untargeted ads.

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