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by overscore 6y ago
Ireland does not have low taxes for individuals compared to continental Europe. Even compared to Sweden, personal taxation is comparable for high-earners, although Ireland's much more progressive and redistributive scheme results in lo
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That's fairly low by E.U. standards. The marginal rate in Ireland would be 52%.
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This comment makes the mistake of treating Europe like a country, which it is not. > For example, inheritances, assets and properties are not taxed much in Europe (people scream double taxation if you propose that) but income is taxed su
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by overscore 6y ago
In Ireland, software developers with similar levels of experience earn significantly more than doctors, lawyers, management consultants and most bankers. There's only a tiny number of footballers, celebrities, bankers, and non-software
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> The UK will definitely continue to have open banking. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, this requires a definition of "open banking" which is separate from PSD2 and not what the phrase commonly meant until now. The disti
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> PSD2 still applies. That was integrated into U.K. law long before Brexit. It would take an act of parliament to unwind. It's not that simple. The FCA is no longer an EEA National Competent Authority and UK Third Party Providers m
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by overscore 6y ago
PSD2 doesn't even mandate APIs as the mechanism of access!
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by overscore 6y ago
I guess the question is what you mean by "open banking". Initially, in the UK, that phrase referred to the FCA's implementation of the PSD2 requirement for banks to allow a secure mechanism of access to third parties. I think
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by overscore 6y ago
Open Banking is the result of the EU PSD2, so unfortunately is no longer guaranteed in the UK. UK firms have already lost passporting rights, and it's yet unclear whether the UK will align with EU regulation going forward.
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> Sectarian violence is not just a term for non-Western countries. Has it ever been? Probably the best known use of the word in many countries is The Troubles.
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Sorry - Basic Life Support. It's the certification all medical practitioners must keep as a prerequisite for working with patients, and covers CPR, advanced airway management, defibrillation, and the chain of survival. Most countries i
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Google itself: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...
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by overscore 6y ago
If forced into a firefight, I'd prefer to face the hunting rifle, as the term (in most of the World) generally refers to a bolt action rifle. However, if I had to actually take a bullet, I'd prefer it to be from an assault rifle a
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Yeah. I am a SAR medic and due to rolling lockdowns, was only able to get to sea for training about 10% of the norm last year (4 times vs ~40 in 2019). The same is true for clinical placements (0 vs 4), classroom training (2 vs ~50), etc. T
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by overscore 6y ago
Yeah, that's my take too. If it's removable/swappable, it'd have to be something that never impedes drawing or reholstering, which makes me suspect it's more permanent than hook-and-loop, at least.
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by overscore 6y ago
True, but the photos don't seem to show the depth that hook-and-loop would add. That, and even the milimetre that hook-and-loop would add could impede draw and reholstering. I was in a non-US military and we used electrical tape - two
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by overscore 6y ago
They may have a "colour of the day" and routinely swap them. Hard to know how they're affixed, though - they don't look very swappable.
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If it's anything like military colour codes, they'd be swapped regularly as a matter of course.
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I wonder if that's because Guadeloupe isn't part of the Schengen Zone and so has passport control for arrivals from elsewhere in France.
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Axle weight and mileage, surely?
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It's something that every installed grid in the world needs, and no-one is talking about replacing grid infrastructure.
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In Ireland, eCall was only accepted on the condition that it only ever be used for ACR and no other purpose, so I don't think we'll see any EU standards using that eSim for charge control.
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> There's additional benefits as mentioned earlier like not needing to comply with KYC laws. Why would Bitcoin transactions be exempt from KYC?
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> Bonus, if they can't separate which exclusions were from legitimate requests and which came from this script, they can't just delete those entries from the database. I think they would probably just declare them all invalid,
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EU data protection laws are reasonable. They allow for public health authorities to take all the steps you're suggesting, and they require companies which hold such information to make them available to those authorities. They do not a
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by overscore 6y ago
In the EU, those cases would be covered by the lawful basis of being in the vital interest of data subject. However, that would only cover that particular reason for processing, and in the scenarios above would be handled by a public health
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I feel like using someone's personal data for any purpose other than the one for which it was collected should never be allowable. Luckily I live in the EU, where this would already be unlawful.
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That's a nightmare.
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Do the numbers speak for themselves? In Ireland, at least, speed cameras are generally placed at compliance black spots, not accident black spots. Speed cameras on extremely safe motorways here have never been shown to reduce accidents, onl
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That's misguided pedantry, I think. Most seas are a subset of the ocean, and the Baltic is an arm of the Atlantic.

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