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by samdoidge 7y ago
For me to have 4G access, I need to connect to a network, and for that I need to pay. I currently do this through my phone which I need to be connected when there is no wifi more than my laptop. Is the price of 4G access low enough to have
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by samdoidge 7y ago
You need the modem within a mobile phone, but now you're adding it to a laptop in addition. It isn't clear it makes more sense to me.
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by samdoidge 7y ago
As for 2, I would have thought one of the privacy coins could have been utilised: Buy Monero with Biticoin -> Transfer Monero to another wallet -> Buy Bitcoin with Monero. But I guess it isn't that easy.
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by samdoidge 7y ago
> The illuminati is controlling your mind with chemitrails Do you have any source at all for this? He seemed to be beyond 'chemtrails' from what I had seen of him, and indeed he has a video stating: > Another viral YouTube v
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by samdoidge 7y ago
No. He refused to leave the embassy for fear of extradition, but he invited prosecutors to interview him within the embassy.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> Honestly between $UBER and $LYFT I have no idea why you'd own $LYFT. You use $UBER as if it is a publically listed stock - it isn't. $UBER doesn't exist.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
>or we empower some individuals and companies to control and govern communications etc We've been down this route in several countries during the 20th century and it doesn't pan out well.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
The First Step Act [1] is a start towards reducing recidivism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act
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by samdoidge 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_power Lists Great Britain as the leading power of the time, and I would agree. I think France was leading earlier, when Napoleon was in power.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> They say this, but people with integrity are typically made fun of secretly or even publicly, declared dismissive and asocial, instead of positively recognized in any fashion. Is there a source backing any of this up?
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by samdoidge 8y ago
The https://scaphold.io/ URL is down.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> Note to readers, land speed not equal to air speed. As the article discusses it doesn't break the sound barrier. Yes, but the first sentence is not why it did not break the sound barrier. They state it is due to being in swiftly m
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> Please. Brexit is due to a number of factors, most of them fairly irrational and built over decades of lies from the British press and British politicians. The people shouting to “take back control” don’t know what that “control” even
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> Well, when an EU directive agrees with you and overrules your national elites, of course you are all for it; and when it's the opposite, it's "them shady eurocrats"... Some people just want these important decisions
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by samdoidge 8y ago
The increasing censorship is genuinely making living in the UK less appealing.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> 12 Rules for life is a complete mess of strangely used bible quotes, misattributed and misquoted philosophers Can you be more specific with the misquoted and misattributed philosophers?
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by samdoidge 8y ago
I agree problems need to be tackled at the source, but some self-help books may help you deal with the problem. 12 Rules for Life is one such book.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
>Furthermore, I'd say on a global scale /r/politics is pretty much dead middle I know these things are terribly subjective but that subreddit seems more to the left. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/politi
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> People that downplay the democratic legitimacy of the EU really, truly, unequivocally do not understand what they are talking about or have a malicious intention. I understand why people say this. The population have not directly voted
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> I know the system is broken, corrupt, beyond repair -- why remind me about it every day? Perhaps only having Hacker News as your source of news has led to that mentality. That's not to say it isn't broken, or there isn't
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by samdoidge 8y ago
Personally, Facebook has allowed me to rekindle / develop several relationships.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
At what cost to your social life and relationships?
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by samdoidge 8y ago
I think if people realise buttons may be placebo - this will reduce how much people use / wait for buttons in general.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> All our media tells us we should all carry guns and shoot people This has not been my observation, at all.
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YouTube, Facebook and iTunes drop InfoWars(bbc.co.uk)
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by samdoidge 8y ago
Why conflate this with populism? This is the result of poor economic policies.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
Yes, it is. My intention was to highlight that the separation of these concepts is not a 'unicorn'.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
> The EU is big, the UK is comparatively smaller, guess what happens in a divorce? :) A divorce seems an odd comparison to choose, but the UK has a large trade deficit with the EU. If the UK leaders had a backbone, they would walk away o
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by samdoidge 8y ago
[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2109958/brexi... [2] There has been little if any compromise in the negotiations from the EU side, and much from the UK.
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by samdoidge 8y ago
It's a hugely worrying trend. If it continues, a potential outcome is no other species exist. There are medicinal and practical uses for plants, and some are have only recently been discovered. Losing them is losing this these potentia

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