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Do we know if this pattern is just something we've observed so far, or is it a natural law?

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 your partner will prevail, and live a life agreeable to both your terms. I’m sure many who read your story will too. Please, lean on hope, not despair.

To be issued a virtual card number, you need only be a bank customer

Choose your retailer with care

Could you share what some of these substances are?

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.

There are hosted DNS solutions, I use NextDNS to good effect but I'm sure there are others

As a massive fan of the Culture series, does anyone have recommendations for other excellent sci-fi books?

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 the substation

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.

Unlike your standard VPS hosts (DigitalOcean etc.), a good seedbox host will take your inevitable DMCA notices and file them in the shredder.

How did you find the change in display size?

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 cost should (hopefully) be well under that figure.

I still agree it's a gargantuan sum that could have been spent in many other important areas, but pandemic response is important too.

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.

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 this.

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.

consolidate into 2-3 megabanks like in the UK

The UK has greater industry competition in the form of challenger banks than the US

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.

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 it's a fantastic return on its energy investment.

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.

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?

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.

Beware, however, that the carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks causes the water to become acidic, which is bad for the enamel on your teeth.

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 convenient and especially during the pandemic have meant fresh air and the joy of being outside.

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, don't all vaccines currently authorised have 100% protection against death from COVID-19?

Edit: it was Vox, not Vice, and the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3odScka55A

My Bluetooth devices work flawlessly with my iMac, including the Magic Mouse/KB etc. What's your RF environment like?

Can you go into more detail about what a regular western diet is and how your new diet differs?

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.

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 into doing so. An example is Facebook disabling the developer console in the browser after users were coerced into using it against themselves[2].

[1] http://bouk.co/blog/sideload-iphone/ [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21692646/how-does-faceboo...

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/managing/removing mobile software in a safe manner is a much better experience than compared to their PC's. My grandparents are fully capable of managing software on their iPhones - if I asked them to do the same on Linux...