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In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interestin…

That is for renting a whole property. You will have to share with someone for €600 per month. Try the "Sharing" option in Daft for that.

I work in a smallish company (around 150 employees I believe) and we recently went through this career framework development and standardisation and as part of that we came up with…

One other use of political symbols such as bumper stickers or flags etc is to "mark your territory" to make sure that people know whether they are welcome or not. As an Irishman dr…

Another related American tradition that I think is really wrong is the "Perp Walk". For the police to purposely work with the media to cause as much public humiliation for a presum…

Obviously not really adding much real help to the conversation but I watched a sketch only a few days ago that seems pretty applicable: https://youtu.be/B_9D5jeby_8

Isn't Germany on of the countries that at least had plans on making social media companies responsible for what their users post on their sites. If I remember correctly they were e…

In Ireland there is a charity called Blood Bikes ( http://bloodbikes.ie/ ) where people volunteer to quickly transport somewhat urgent medical supplies including blood (hence the n…

I think Ireland is champion of euphemistically naming things to greatly play them down. We referred to WW2 (you know that little conflict that killed like 70 million people) as "Th…

I realise that it's a completely different country (Ireland) but I remember back when I was in university and found out that most tenants in student accommodation aren't in fact te…

I remember hearing some super cliched but kinda funny saying one time: "Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that you shouldn't put it in a fruit salad…

This option is brought up alot and while cost is probably one consideration I think that the main problem is for when (not if) one of the launches has a rapid unscheduled disassemb…

I am always so surprised and appalled that these things are still legal. Can you imagine the reaction if they were designed to only hurt pretty much any other demographic other tha…

Interesting thing about electricity bills in Ireland is that we pay a Public Service Obligation Levy on every bill. Part of that goes to subsidising investment in renewable energy …

Just read up a little bit and didn't know how controllable the output of a reactor is. I guess I was thinking more about spinning up from zero.

Gas is often used for load balancing, even before renewables became more widespread. Some types of gas generator plants can be spun up to full capacity in a matter of minutes. Nucl…

There were stories that he wasn't a very good house guest. Didn't clean up after himself or his pet, wasn't very hygienic himself too. Don't know if they are true but wouldn't surp…

My Googling skills mustn't be what they used to be.

There is a brilliant picture illustrating this. I tried to track it down but couldn't find it anywhere. It is actually three "different" pictures. The first is a soldier (I believe…

They have applied for a banking license, but that was like a year ago and haven't heard anything much since then.

The ECHR is completely separate from the EU so no matter what way the actual Brexit goes, they will still be a member of the ECHR. Whether they might want to leave that as well is …

Would a better way of describing it be: "People Used Facebook to fuel Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany." You could say that Facebook isn't doing enough to prevent people fuelling at…

It might (completely guessing here) also mean that lungs that wouldn't be suitable for normal transplant due to health or condition, might be suitable to be used in this way.