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by ploika 5y ago
That's also done. "Funded by the Arts Council" is a phrase commonly seen on posters for all sorts of artistic endeavours. "Funding Opportunities" is front and centre on their website too: https://www.arts
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by ploika 5y ago
Several of those groups have much stronger lobbies in Ireland than artists do, I would argue. Live music and theatres in particular have been almost totally shut down here since March 2020. I'm struggling to think of any other sector t
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by ploika 5y ago
Ireland is similarly keen to keep schools open. Children from age 5 upwards are being vaccinated as of today, and the main focus in school buildings is on getting adequate ventilation and HEPA filters into classrooms. Contact tracing in sch
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by ploika 5y ago
I think an under-served market is "intermediate to advanced programming for people who didn't study computer science but can already write half-decent Python and maybe some SQL, JavaScript or Matlab/Julia/R". People
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by ploika 5y ago
> We have, in Western society, managed to simultaneously botch the dreams of democracy, capitalism, social coherence, and techno-utopianism, all at once. It's embarrassing actually. I am embarrassed. You should be embarrassed. I gen
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by ploika 5y ago
Pension funds. The company you work for will give X% of your salary each month to Willis Towers Watson or whoever, who invest huge sums of money on behalf of people like you. Then you move jobs or the start-up fails or whatever, but your ol
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by ploika 5y ago
Some parts of the world will definitely lock down again in 2022. I'm in Ireland and fully expecting a hard lockdown in January. I want to believe that the pandemic will move some health systems away from almost just-in-time lean resour
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by ploika 5y ago
Loads of things. Twenty years ago was only 2001. Bikes, some items of clothing, furniture, DIY/garden tools, pretty much every kitchen utensil and gadget could be handed down after that period of time if it's high quality. A lot o
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by ploika 5y ago
A version of that for cars is common enough actually. Several countries and US states have road worthiness tests that include minimum (maximum?) emissions standards that must be met. The car I drive will probably ultimately fail on emission
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by ploika 5y ago
I fully did not intend for it to happen, but using Strava has made me exercise more, and put more effort into improving my performance rather than just going through the motions. This was especially true during Ireland's very long lock
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by ploika 5y ago
American gun violence is on a different scale to most of the rest of Western society. I don't think it's a particularly useful comparison.
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by ploika 5y ago
I'm based in Dublin city, currently trying to buy a home somewhere that lets me live as car-free an existence as possible. I'm avoiding reclaimed land and low-lying areas (of which there is a lot in the city), because they're
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by ploika 5y ago
That's the function of the Comptroller and Auditor General where I live. I'd be surprised if there was no equivalent in the USA.
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by ploika 5y ago
It wasn't a Soviet but the 1913 Dublin Lockout probably deserves a mention too. It was a bitter dispute that involved about 15,000 workers and lasted around 5 months. It's arguably the most significant industrial dispute in Irish
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by ploika 5y ago
It might largely depend on whether you live somewhere with proportional representation or not. Full-on revolution at the ballot box is rare in liberal democracies, sure, but single-issue candidates get elected pretty commonly and often have
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by ploika 5y ago
Delta, in a word. It's important to note that while outbreaks are definitely happening, hospitalisations and deaths are way down compared to previous waves.
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by ploika 5y ago
That's too simplistic. It's very hard to keep minority languages alive, even if you really desperately want to, when you're immersed in a majority language. The Irish language is in danger even in the Gaeltacht areas where na
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by ploika 5y ago
I'm not saying all of anything is anything else. Maybe we'll have to agree to disagree. The notion of "anti-Irish racism" in the UK or USA, or "anti-Polish racism" in Ireland, is widely accepted enough for me t
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by ploika 5y ago
> Canadians and Australians are beneath Americans. We "know" this in our heart of hearts. Your definition of "racism" is far too narrow if that doesn't count as a racist statement to you.
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by ploika 5y ago
The one not at war obviously. Being in Europe didn't save Bosnia from being a pretty awful place to be in the 90s.
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by ploika 5y ago
The wreck is actually on Inis Oírr, the smallest island. Over the past few years it's kind of collapsed in on itself. It's not much more than a vaguely boat-shaped pile of rust these days.
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by ploika 5y ago
High-speed rail can absolutely compete with short-haul flights between (some) European cities.
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by ploika 5y ago
There is no main partisan divide like there is in the US or UK. We don't have a two party system. The last election was basically a three way tie, with a significant vote share split across another handful of small parties and independ
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by ploika 5y ago
That's what I'm saying. I don't think they were sitting on it until McEntee left either.
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by ploika 5y ago
Ireland isn't part of the Five Eyes though. I don't really think Helen McEntee's maternity leave is relevant either because she's in the same party as Heather Humphreys, and they are in a three-party coalition government
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by ploika 5y ago
The Limerick gangs were more or less dealt with about a decade ago. It's the likes of the Kinahans, and possibly some of the various dissident republican groups, who are much more of a target for this bill.
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by ploika 5y ago
Just for the avoidance of doubt, Ireland is not part of the UK.
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by ploika 5y ago
Presumably not, because "the key is broken" is not the same as "I refuse to hand over the keys". This law, rightly or wrongly, is concerned with the latter concept.
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by ploika 5y ago
I'm kind of sad that the term "data mining" has fallen out of favour, because large datasets (as with mines) tend to contain a lot of worthless dirt that just has to be sifted through. 10 million rows of data is still pretty
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by ploika 5y ago
I think you're talking about different things. Yosemite could be breathtaking, but not interesting (because it feels very foreign) the way that a huge high school football game or a typical American diner might be interesting to non-

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