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by talideon 7y ago
My employer straight up banned the use of VirtualBox entirely _just in case_. They'd rather pay for VMWare Fusion licenses than deal with any potential crap from Oracle.
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by talideon 7y ago
A fair chunk of which gets piped over from Ireland these days.
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by talideon 7y ago
There already is, largely because VRT[1] ends up limiting the kinds of models of car sold new in Ireland. [1] Vehicle Registration Tax, a tax that's illegal under EU law, but the Irish government have never been seriously dinged on.
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by talideon 7y ago
Yes, peat. Ireland does not have significant coal deposits, and our forests were chopped down for, amongst other things, our next door neighbour's collection of boats, which is part of how your ancestors likely ended up in Australia in
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by talideon 7y ago
"Extrapolated" might be a better term than "invented", to be fair to him. His "Proto-Romance" seems to be an attempt to extrapolate an intermediate between Vulgar Latin and the early Romance languages after the
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by talideon 7y ago
Oh, it very much is: Windscale and Sellafield are linked in the public mind here. Here, Sellafield was seen as a rebranding exercise for Windscale. > Wikipedia seems to think it is prohibited - 1999 Electricity Regulation Act. I was care
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by talideon 7y ago
Let's get one thing straight here: neither I nor anybody else is arguing that renewables (which are currently mostly intermittant) can replace non-renewable sources. They are, however, complementary : the more power you generate from
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by talideon 7y ago
You've heard of Sellafield, right? That's what finally killed any chance of a nuclear plant being set up in Ireland. The Carnsore Point plant was mooted in the 70s, but the opposition was so great it had to be shelved. There'
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by talideon 7y ago
That's what interconnects partly are for. Ireland is an island, but its grid is no longer separated from the rest of Europe. We're getting closer to a point where, when we have a surplus, it can get sent elsewhere, and when we hav
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by talideon 7y ago
We also have interconnects that pull power from the UK and soon France too. We're fully aware of our dependence on fossil fuels (though what's down in that map as 'coal' for Ireland is mostly actually turf, not coal). Th
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by talideon 8y ago
Well, the same thing can actually be said of Ireland itself. The cohort of Q-Celtic speakers who brought their language and culture weren't all that big. Lebor Gabála Érenn might be a pseudo-history, but it's surprising how closel
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by talideon 8y ago
> This form of writing was dated as soon as the ballpoint pen was invented, which was in the 19th century. While technically correct, that's all this is. Loud might've invented the ballpoint in the late 19th century, but th
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by talideon 8y ago
OTOH, subsidiarity is explicitly a foundational principle of both the EU and Distributism.
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by talideon 8y ago
No. The Irish government have been attempting just that and it's actually be exacerbating the problem. The solution is for the government to behave if a countercyclical fashion: if the market isn't doing its job, the government ha
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by talideon 8y ago
In the case of most of those, it's simply unnecessary. For instance, for EU ccTLDs, none of them reveal anything more than the most basic information in Whois for private individuals owing to the DPD (and its successor, the GDPR). For
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by talideon 8y ago
That's not the reason for it. Rather, there's a very high premium put on having third-level education in Ireland as it was historically one of the ways to get out of poverty, even if that meant emigrating elsewhere. We could do wi
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by talideon 9y ago
Again, there's nothing particularly 'preferential' about Ireland's tax rates. Other countries, such as the aforementioned France, had much more preferential effective ones. The difference is that our rate is more transpa
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by talideon 9y ago
> It's weird that the EU has a monetary union, but so much difference in corporate income tax rates. That's because it's a monetary union, not a fiscal union. > Great that IE is 12%, but this "competition" is
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by talideon 9y ago
Whois isn't DNS.
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by talideon 9y ago
That's a common usage of the prefix 'anti-', however. You see it in things like antihero (still a hero), antiparticle (still particle), &c., where it means 'opposite, contrasting with the norm'.
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by talideon 9y ago
Except the hybrid bees are notoriously aggressive, which is why they're useless commercially. Part of the reason European bees are so useful commercially is that they're quite docile.
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by talideon 9y ago
The 'tó' and 'náthó' mentioned in the article are actually borrowings from Middle Welsh into Middle Irish, but they fell out of fashion again. Old Irish didn't have yes/no equivalents. 'Tá' (present t
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by talideon 9y ago
That's not quite right. 'Tá' only means 'yes' when answering a question in the present tense that uses the verb 'bí', e.g., 'An bhfuil tú anseo? Tá.' ('Are you there? (I) am' - '
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by talideon 9y ago
...except none of that happens. Ireland was, IIRC, the first country to introduce a bag levy. In spite of some gnashing of teeth, the world didn't fall apart, companies didn't go out of business (in fact, they started producing re
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by talideon 9y ago
If you're looking for something like fetchmail, I find fdm to be superior in just about every way: https://github.com/nicm/fdm
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by talideon 9y ago
Even before Softbank bought them, ARM weren't even a fabless operation: their whole business model is IP cores. There's very little strategic value in that; you'd be as well off founding a semiconductor manufacturer to build
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by talideon 9y ago
Those two gobshites are more a consequence of political culture, especially within FF, than voting system.
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by talideon 9y ago
We haven't had a single-party government in Ireland since the '50s, and it hasn't done us a lick of harm. Quite the opposite, in fact, as junior parties tend to be a moderating influence on the senior one. If anything, it&#x2
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by talideon 9y ago
You mean, a hostel? :-)
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by talideon 9y ago
I suspect the issue may be down to however your computer, which I'm guessing is running Windows, is rasterising the font. On Mac OS, it renders perfectly, whether on a Retina display or a normal monitor. Ditto for Ubuntu. It looks like

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