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Unrealized gains can be taxed - for example, Ireland has a Deemed Disposal tax on ETF investments, where after 8 years, any gains are considered to have been realized and tax is due (even if no sale has taken place)

Definitely not new - as someone who was diagnosed with Haemochromatosis in 2017 - I was first prescribed phlebotomies until my general iron levels reached a level that my consultant was happy with.

Once I hit that level, I'm able to donate blood about twice a year (once every six months) to maintain (that, and a slightly changed diet to avoid high iron food)

You're focusing a bit much on the Developers bit. It's not just Developers who are working through the code-base.

As a lame example - Incident Response/SRE will also be trying to get their heads around changes being made - especially if they're responding to an outage, and trying to figure out what change broke production - and why it was made.

Not everyone will know every bit of the project as intimately as the Dev team - and having a good commit message will help any unfamiliar response team mitigate, or escalate accordingly.

{Tests, Code Comments, Documentation} are 3 distinct places to trawl through when quickly going through git blame.

The commit message is one place - and gives the author an opportunity to speak directly with a future developer over the place-in-time-context that this change was made.

So they'll have to compete elsewhere?

How is this anything but a win for consumers?

Behaviour by the rest of society is influenced largely by public policy.

In Ireland, investing in Housing/Land is largely one of the best investment assets you can own due to the lack of Capital Gains or Deemed Disposal rules.

Helmets prevent a particular type of injury - traumatic brain injury This is true for all types of transportation including driving.

Traumatic brain injury is a common outcome of an automobile collisions - yet we don't see people with the same concern for introducing mandatory helmets in day-to-day driving.

A few of the offices even have a pool (Google Dublin, and soon Google London)

Because the buildings are usually located in very central city locations - I've often used the offices as a way to kill time til' check-in opens for hotels after a long-haul flight (grab food, caffeinate, have a shower, etc)

Recently I took a night train between Stockholm and Copenhagen.

Showered in the Stockholm office, walked 5 minutes to the train station, slept, woke up in Copenhagen, grabbed a hearty breakfast in the CPH office.

It's a little perk that is honestly vastly underestimated

If my memory recalls correct, in Ireland, Pay-as-you-go was relatively popular for a number of different demographics.

Most networks implemented some kind of Top up €20, get 200 free minutes, 200 free texts, unlimited same-network texts, and X GB of data for the month.

WhatsApp came in, which meant that that all networks could now talk to each other using the Data allowance for free, essentially - which I think convinced people to use WhatsApp rather than dwindle down their network text quota.