theBobBob

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by theBobBob 8mo ago
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 "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound
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by theBobBob 3y ago
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.
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Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israels narative in Hamas conflict(irishtimes.com)
6 points by theBobBob 3y ago|0 comments
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by theBobBob 4y ago
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 standard levels and titles across the company but we had to
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by theBobBob 5y ago
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 driving through some parts of Northern Ireland the b
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by theBobBob 5y ago
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 presumed innocent suspect as a form of pre-conviction pu
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HSE shuts down IT systems amid significant cyber attack(irishtimes.com)
4 points by theBobBob 5y ago|0 comments
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by theBobBob 6y ago
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
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by theBobBob 6y ago
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 even proposing massive fines if content that they deemed
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by theBobBob 6y ago
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 name), test samples, medication, medical files
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by theBobBob 6y ago
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 "The Emergency" while we still call the conflict in N
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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 tenants but rather are licencees. Basically means th
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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."
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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 disassembly as they call it, and basically become becomes a large dir
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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 than young people?
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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 to help reduce emissions. The other part of it goes to subsi
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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.
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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. Nuclear on the other hand is the opposite. It takes considerable
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by theBobBob 7y ago
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 surprise me to be honest.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
My Googling skills mustn't be what they used to be.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
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 it was US soldier) giving a drink of water
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by theBobBob 8y ago
They have applied for a banking license, but that was like a year ago and haven't heard anything much since then.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
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 another matter.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
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 attacks but you could also say that the police
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by theBobBob 8y ago
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.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
While I don't really know much about the area, one option that I hear has possible potential is forests and then convert them to biochar. Downside is that you obviously need huge quantities of land that some would want to use for farmi
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by theBobBob 8y ago
True, that bit is a bit annoying, but again, not being able to switch out or uninstall default apps is much worse than just not being able to uninstall default apps.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
Very slightly off topic but I actually think how Android handles default apps is the best of both worlds. It comes with very very good default Google Apps that work well together but it is very easy to switch out whatever you want for an al
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by theBobBob 8y ago
Yeah I had to read Google's cached version.
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by theBobBob 8y ago
I remember when I moved away for college I was so shocked at how quite a few people basically couldn't look after themselves at all. I ended up teaching one guy I lived with how to do the most basic things. I actually had to show him h

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