There's a subset of people in Ireland who are legally required to write down an ID on their vehicle, that can be matched to a name/photograph in seconds.
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.
The first line (or atleast, the first 80 characters) should be a quick summary - so you can quickly browse via git blame.
But the actual commit message should consist of History/Motivation/Context - so that someone who's going through the blame can understand why a certain change was made, and what the context was.
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.
As a slight aside - I was surprised to learn that Amazon Photos (if you have Prime) includes RAW camera formats as valid photos for the purposes of their unlimited storage offer.
I've taken to essentially backing up all my RAWs to Amazon Photos - even the ones I would typically discard.
This was the concept behind HashCash, the concept behind BitCoin/Cryptocurrencies in general.
The idea being that each email would do a non-trivial amount of work, such compute a valid hash - encode it in the message header.
This message header can be checked quickly on receivers side, but takes time for the sender.
This makes sending a large amount of email quickly infeasible without a significant amount of compute power.
https://www.transportforireland.ie/getting-around/by-taxi/dr...
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Additionally, in plenty of European Countries, it's pretty common to write your name on your address: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B01RP4/personal-name-plates-at-blo...