paddez

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by paddez 7mo ago
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.transportforireland.ie/getting-around/by-ta
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by paddez 2y ago
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 due (even if no sale has taken place)
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by paddez 2y ago
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 consultant was happy with. Once I hit that level, I'm able to do
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by paddez 2y ago
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 get their heads around changes being made - es
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by paddez 2y ago
{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 opportunity to speak directly with a future developer over the plac
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by paddez 2y ago
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/Motivation/Context - so that someone who's goin
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by paddez 3y ago
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-...
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by paddez 3y ago
So they'll have to compete elsewhere? How is this anything but a win for consumers?
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by paddez 3y ago
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=AbSehcT19u0 But as you mentioned, No Yaks in
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by paddez 3y ago
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 lack of Capital Gains or Deemed Disposal rules.
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by paddez 3y ago
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 an automobile collisions - yet we don't see people with
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by paddez 3y ago
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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeli
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by paddez 3y ago
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 as a way to kill time til' check-in opens for ho
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by paddez 3y ago
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 free minutes, 200 free texts, unlimited same-network texts, a
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by paddez 3y ago
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 can identify airtags around me with that App, but I canno
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by paddez 3y ago
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 user-side explanation for it. There's definitely
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by paddez 4y ago
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've taken to essentially backing up all my RAWs to Amaz
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by paddez 4y ago
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)
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by paddez 4y ago
> 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 noticing those around them. This should be especially
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by paddez 4y ago
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 valid hash - encode it in the message header. This messa
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by paddez 4y ago
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 a geographic descriptor. https://web.archive.org
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by paddez 4y ago
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 by things like Gerrymandering. --- Based
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by paddez 4y ago
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.
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by paddez 4y ago
Most of the intercity trains in Ireland are powered by diesel. I believe there's a long term electrification plan for the greater Dublin area, but I don't see a change from using DMU's for a while.
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by paddez 4y ago
Your weirdly specific anecdote doesn't really contradict the data on safety across western cities.
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by paddez 5y ago
Taking a guess - If your Gmail address is larrypage@gmail.com - it prevents someone creating a completely different Gmail address like - larry.page@gmail.com - and using it to impersonate that other account. I think it's complete conj
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by paddez 5y ago
This is incorrect. The layoffs also affect staff employed within the Workspace and GCP Support organisations.
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by paddez 5y ago
Especially not across the Holiday period.
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by paddez 5y ago
Watching a movie from the James Bond series, expecting anything other than violence, giant explosions, and the absence of substantially gripping dialog - was probably your first mistake. The James Bond series have all been popcorn flicks fo
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by paddez 5y ago
I guess, that's ultimately the idea of vaccines.

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