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There's a subset of people in Ireland who are legally required to write down an ID on their vehicle, that can be matched to a name/photograph in seconds. https://www.transportforir…

Unrealized gains can be taxed - for example, Ireland has a Deemed Disposal tax on ETF investments, where after 8 years, any gains are considered to have been realized and tax is du…

Definitely not new - as someone who was diagnosed with Haemochromatosis in 2017 - I was first prescribed phlebotomies until my general iron levels reached a level that my consultan…

You're focusing a bit much on the Developers bit. It's not just Developers who are working through the code-base. As a lame example - Incident Response/SRE will also be trying to g…

{Tests, Code Comments, Documentation} are 3 distinct places to trawl through when quickly going through git blame. The commit message is one place - and gives the author an opportu…

The first line (or atleast, the first 80 characters) should be a quick summary - so you can quickly browse via git blame. But the actual commit message should consist of History/Mo…

Research* shows that Twitter only accounts for a fraction of traffic that Facebook/Meta directs to News media. * https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-...

So they'll have to compete elsewhere? How is this anything but a win for consumers?

I've always considered this Malcolm in the Middle scene to perfectly explain Yak Shaving (a number of years before Yak Shaving was a thing). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT…

Behaviour by the rest of society is influenced largely by public policy. In Ireland, investing in Housing/Land is largely one of the best investment assets you can own due to the l…

Helmets prevent a particular type of injury - traumatic brain injury This is true for all types of transportation including driving. Traumatic brain injury is a common outcome of a…

Irish in Irish is Gaeilge, not Gaelic. Gaelic is an English word for a family of languages which Gaeilge belongs to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language https://en.wikiped…

A few of the offices even have a pool (Google Dublin, and soon Google London) Because the buildings are usually located in very central city locations - I've often used the offices…

If my memory recalls correct, in Ireland, Pay-as-you-go was relatively popular for a number of different demographics. Most networks implemented some kind of Top up €20, get 200 fr…

This does a different thing What OP means is that I cannot purchase an Airtag/Chipolo, and then subsequently find that Airtag using the Find My Network with my Android device. I ca…

Anecdotally, about ~20% of the time I attempt to load Twitter on mobile - none of the user-posted images will load. It's an absolute headache - and there doesn't appear to be a use…

As a slight aside - I was surprised to learn that Amazon Photos (if you have Prime) includes RAW camera formats as valid photos for the purposes of their unlimited storage offer. I…

No, Google gets a cut for purchases through the Google Play Store. Google does not take a cut if you use an alternative app store (which isn't possible on iOS)

> I doubt the average driver notices bicyclists at all. This seems like an issue. The average driver should absolutely notice the environment they're operating in. This includes no…

This was the concept behind HashCash, the concept behind BitCoin/Cryptocurrencies in general. The idea being that each email would do a non-trivial amount of work, such compute a v…

To your point, even the term British Isles is considered by many to be somewhat politically charged. So much up to a point that the Irish Government actively discourages its use as…

I think the key thing to note here is that "Half the population" != "Half of voters" Even then, assembly seats are assigned based on constituency - which can be politically marred …

They'd be more likely to vote for a Nationalist party yes, but they'd also be more likely not to vote as that would acknowledge the legitimacy of British rule over Northern Ireland…