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Are you American by any chance? Not having a go, just curious.

I remember getting my first mobile, one of the big pitches for it was "no cost to receive sms messages." It's funny to look back on it now.

There was the referendum. Then the elected representatives voted on it, and passed it. Then there was a general election, after which Leave was again voted for in Parliament (and both the main parties back leaving the EU). How many votes are needed??

What utter rubbish. Just when you think it's already reached "Peak Guardian", they come out with that.

You've given an extreme example, not worth replying to really.

> I don't know what bubble you live in

The "bubble" that the vast majority of devs live in where on-call isn't a thing?

> If you don't want a call out

I won't agree to one, nor sign a contract where it's listed.

How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!

Anything goes? Twitter have been actively censoring hashtags, banning people, shadow-banning accounts and most recently "de-verifiying" people due to political differences.

So realistically, is the code going to be fixed at 3 a.m.? Why can't it wait til I'm in the next morning at 8 a.m. for a proper review, triage, priority listing and then fix?

I'm shocked that people would so easily give up their free time really, but to each their own.

How much does it pay extra?

> It's called "eating your own dog food".

No it's not, that's using your own product. Which I do.

On call as a core part? Really? Thankfully I've never worked anywhere with such a "duty", tbh if my current place proposed it I'd be applying for new jobs by lunch time.

What's the standard pay for being on-call as a matter of interest?

> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?

Not really. The problem is that building all but stopped in the aftermath of the 2007/8 crash. Meanwhile the economy recovered, Dublin in particular is booming now but we're still lacking enough homes to meet demand and building never recovered to the necessary levels. Add in a reluctance for "building up" and a growing population, that gets you higher and higher prices...

> It's deja vu all over again.

Except for the lack of readily available credit. For the most part, it seems the people paying the high prices are "able" to afford it. The problem is that home ownership (and the security that brings, particularly in Ireland) is not attainable for most young people and families anymore.

I fail to see what that has to do with supercomputing funding/underfunding due to religious stuff (which I'm guessing is tax breaks).

> including supercomputing

No, not true at all.

> His statement has some weight.

Only in so far as you could make the argument about any of the other spendings of the US government and shoe-horn it in.

Hilarious shoe-horning in of your personal gripe. When was the vote to decide between computing funding and religious stuff?