Brendan Halpin
bthalpin@mastodon.social
<p>Sociologist in Limerick</p><p>Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes</p><p>Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python</p><p>Linux on the desktop since about 1997</p><p>tootfinder searchable</p>
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Post #2098517
The Irish government is making noises about thinking about thinking about nuclear power. Given their track record with big projects, I reckon we will have a plant online by about 2100 and it will cost 2-3 times annual GDP to construct. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/04/why-are-we-talking-about-building-nuclear-reactors/ #mastodaoine
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Post #1157243
I&#39;ve been wondering if &quot;one-off rural housing&quot; can be described as ultra-low density suburbanisation. I&#39;ve been looking at data: Census Small Area statistics, in fact. Result, this map: Rural Census Small Areas with &gt;40% of housing stock build in the period 2000-2022 (bulk in 2000-2008, 2nd phase of Celtic Tiger). Huge patterns of ultra-low density suburbanisation in some areas (Galway city environs) but not others. What&#39;s going on east of the M...
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Post #912905
I saw this on Reddit, and having the data to hand, I thought I&#39;d replicate it: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1s61cou/how_european_cities_stack_up_in_density/#lightbox #mastodaoine
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Post #609230
Open letter to Irish minister who&#39;s pushing ChatControl from @mariafarrell https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/