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Ryanair has a significantly better safety record than all of the "safest" airlines on that list, and have never had a fatality or serious accident, which is more than most of them.

It's own safety rating system puts Ryanair at the same "7 stars", but their history speaks for itself.

https://www.airlineratings.com/ratings/ryanair/

Ryanair do have a history of taking advantage of industry slumps, having put in an order for 100 aircraft with Boeing in January 2002 when aviation had nearly collapsed.

That said, they take safety extraordinarily seriously and would not risk their reputation if they had doubts about the Max.

The 737-8200 designation well predates either of the fatal crashes.

Ryanair, which is by far the world's safest airline, has ordered 210 of the Max, having recently increased their order by 75 aircraft. So there is confidence in the aircraft in industry, at least.

That article (from 1979) indicates that the only legal restriction is that it must be dispensed into an approved container.

More recent advice from the API indicates that fire codes usually restrict the storage of more than 25 gallons (~95 L) at home. Many people in rural areas would have orders of magnitude more than that.

So it seems that, in the US at least, it's not illegal all over.

API Source: https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/consumer-information...

Where would it be illegal to store petrol? It might be unwise if you live in an apartment, but illegal?

I think this misses the point, which is that many (maybe most) of the citizens of Great Britain don't consider nationalists in Northern Ireland as citizens at all, even while they are murdering them.

After all, while the majority of the deaths during the Troubles were caused by Republicans, most of those killed by Republicans were members of the British Armed Forces.

Most of the civilians killed by any party were killed by the British Armed Forces or Unionist paramilitaries supported by them.

You, like many in Great Britain, have decided that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland aren't really UK citizens, while simultaneously they were being slaughtered to try to force them to accept being UK citizens.

You are a perfect (possibly non-GB) example of the ignorance or maybe wilful blindness that surrounds Northern Ireland, and the crimes of the British government against its own citizens.

More directly, Thatcher was also responsible for a litany of crimes, including murder and torture, and human rights abuses against her own citizens in Northern Ireland.

Although Thatcher is hated by swaths of UK society (which turns out to exist after all), there is in Great Britain in general an ignorance or blindness to crimes committed by the State against their own citizenry.

Where I live, ANPR is unlawful except for Law Enforcement, so I don't generally worry. I've never had a car whose navigation system pulled directions from the cloud - always on-board maps. I can also turn off my phone or leave it behind. All new cars sold in the EU have an eSim for eCall, but it's prohibited from sending telemetry except in the case of a crash and can be permanently disabled at the fuse box. Dash cams are regulated.

> Privacy is dead. Most people just don't know it yet.

It certainly is if you accept it.

I don't think the security benefits - while considerable - would be enough to allow a car manufacturer to surveil everywhere I go.

This implies that Tesla can view the vicinity and location of your car at any time. Is that true? That would completely destroy any desire to own one.

As I'm sure you're aware, the British government was pro-EU during the Brexit campaign.

BBC News has always been the de facto propaganda arm of the British government. It may only be apparent to you now, but their reporting has always been overly biased. Examples are any reporting on the Troubles (especially British crimes there), the Iraq war (especially the lead up and the Camp Stephen killings), and anything about Brexit.

The closest thing to an expert system I've seen is clinical practice guidelines, which sometimes includes decision trees of indications/contraindications for administering certain medications for common and time-sensitive medical events, like cardiac arrest or exacerbation of breathing difficulty with COPD.

Yes, one of the few culture shocks when I lived in America was pharmaceutical advertising to the public. Another was constant political advertising on TV.

Yeah, I do clinical placements in hospitals as part of volunteer work, and doctors run the range from open and receptive to questions to incredibly arrogant and dismissive.

The fact that they agreed to talk to the OP probably means they aren't going to be immediately dismissive, but I'd hesitate to assign any supranormal human traits to doctors.

You are moving the goal posts.

Police knocking on your door is not a raid - the element of surprise is the defining factor, from the US to anywhere in Europe to an infantry section in Kandahar.

You claim above that raids are unique to the US and its abnormal police, but now the claim has morphed into the manner in which they are conducted that's different.

Even in Ireland, where police are routinely unarmed and gun crime is rare, if there's a reasonable suspicion that a suspect may have firearms, a police raid will involve nearly identical weapons and equipment to a US SWAT team.

I think you have an unrealistic view of policing outside of the US. There are no police forces that do not conduct raids.

The militarisation of police is separate problem, and the solution is not going to involve removing the tactics that the so-called normal police forces rely on.

Different threat models, but a raid is a raid.

Just like an arrest is an arrest, even though in the US it will necessarily involve firearms and in Ireland, it almost never will.

It happens in Ireland all the time for personal amounts of drugs. They are generally unarmed raids unless it's a gangland case, though.

Raids are common in almost every European country - which in general have "normal" police forces - where the police believe someone might destroy evidence.

I'm not primarily a Web developer but have a small Saas built with Ember.

I previously had a webapp built in Django, and just couldn't grok it. I made it work but always felt like I was fighting it. I tried Flask, but you have to build absolutely everything yourself.

I have a tiny team (2 devs) and hate spending time building and maintaining cookie cutter functionality like sign in flows, teams, etc.

Thanks for the insight. I am wary of "greener grass".

Thanks for your response - very informative!

Interesting. In your opinion, is it worth learning RoR over Django? I'm historically a Python dev, but find Django and Python web development in general a very poor experience.

I have - moved to an Apple watch.

My source for the above was intended to be: https://publicpolicy.ie/papers/comparing-irish-income-taxati...

> maybe you could be wrong?

Ireland is bang on the EU average for taxation of high earners. It seems Austria has higher (although not massively so) taxation of high earners - source below.

Ireland has the most progressive taxation system in the EU, so low-earners do indeed pay less personal incomes taxes than any country other than Cyprus and Estonia.

Ireland is definitely not a tax haven for tech workers - you're the only person I've ever come across to hold that opinion. The UK may be closer to that, as self-employment is much more attractively taxed there than Ireland.

https://www.uhy.com/uk-imposes-highest-taxes-on-inheritance-...

I didn't cherry pick anything. I chose the UK and Ireland as they directly contradict your statement that:

> False, this mechanism only prevents income inequality but not wealth inequality as existing wealth is not taxed much in Europe.

The E.U. is home to both the highest and lowest inheritance taxes in the world, and averages very close to the US. I think this adequately refutes your statement that "existing wealth is not taxed much in Europe."

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 lower taxes for low-earners, and thus a smaller tax base.

That's fairly low by E.U. standards. The marginal rate in Ireland would be 52%.