The obvious is never obvious

#Brexit
The Northern Ireland Conservatives are in the core of the process. Without them supporting the May government, making the Irish sea the border between the EU and Britain would be the obvious choice. But now there is only one way, a closed Irish / Northern Ireland border.
The obvious is that Ireland starts preparations to close the border. If they would starting doing so now, it would put huge pressure on May. If it would turn around the The Northern Ireland Conservatives, that would be a great outcome. If the The Northern Ireland Conservatives would persevere, Ireland is prepared for the days after the worst (most likely) outcome from the Brexit negotiations.
If they start preparing for closing the border with Northern Ireland after the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, in all cases it will be to late.

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Issuing phone numbers, a failing public service.

The unreliable ID? In many articles, the IT industry complains about the fussy nature of the phone number as a reliable ID. For example, in this article . What wend wrong? The ITU It was original set up by governments to resolve international issues on standards for telecommunication. One of their standards is the Telephone numbering plan . This telephone numbering plan was set up in a time of fixed landlines, never considering mobile personal use. Who has ownership? Let's have a look at the international public telecommunication numbering plan E.164 . The first 3 digits are the country code or country calling code . Counties control the subscribers assignment in the networks of the member countries. So countries have jurisdiction over the subscriber assignment in the country networks. In that regard, the county calling code is the jurisdiction code ! National governments have ownership! To me, it looks like governments fail to provide the public service we (the people) could expe

Contact Number instead of Phone Number

How do you contact a person with your mobile phone? FaceTime? Signal? WhatsApp? Call? Is it not about time to rephrase Phone Number into Contact Number?

Better laptop keyboard by Google than by Apple.

Apple was on the forefront of human interfacing. Not only technical but also emotional. The better feel of Apple products! In one area, however, they missed the boat. The keyboard! Google with their Chromebooks are catching up on the feel and user experience. Their keyboard experience is even better than the MacBook experience. Just take a look at the keys left of the space bar on a MacBook and the ChromeBook. MacBook ChromeBook Apple needs 4 keys! Google only 2! Industry standard knows the Control and Alt key. But Apple has the strange legacy from the early days of Apple computing called the Command key. Apple wake up! Linux has become the industry standard (not knowing the Command key concept). Much more user would switch from Windows to macOS if they were not hindered by the stupid Apple keyboard legacy. Google makes the switch experience smooth. Apple makes it hard. Guess who will win?

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