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In the video, why does Lath Carlson, Executive Director of the Seattle Living Computers Museum euphemize history by saying Steve Jobs "quit" in 1985?

The EU is a supra-national political union with the aim of turning nation states into regions and centralising power and wealth in an unelected/indirectly elected elite. You might …

This is not journalism. It is a (likely paid for) ad for Tesla.

I'd double check the emissions readings before and after this "bug fix".

By advocating childlessness?

Who says gender inequality doesn't have consequences?

You're using big words, but you're citing the Telegraph and Guardian?

I did exactly the same thing several weeks ago, for my own state machine implementation. https://www.npmjs.com/package/mistic

Those working on other standards should take heed.

Semicolons have always been optional. Brackets are only used for array literals (oh and destructuring assignment) as far as I know (and are required).

If Edge is not on approximate feature parity with Chrome (it isn't), then the benchmark is meaningless.

No, feminists are annoying because the most vocal ones take a simplistic rather literal view of equality, which is a distortion of the more nuanced truth behind the ideology. Men a…

HR don't want to hold out for a unicorn. They couldn't give two hoots about your skill. Even if they did they wouldn't be able to evaluate it. HR are simply brokers. It is a board-…

I think the jury is still out on `class`. I can say that `class` is somewhat "dishonest" both the sense that it makes the language more complicated, under a guise of simplification…

"when you've got a much better language in C#" That's subjective.

Both national MPs and EU commissioners are public officials who form public policy that affects citizens' lives. In that much they are comparable. Both procedurally and in scope of…

Not at all. The question at hand is: do the EU commissioners have a stronger or weaker democratic mandate than national MPs? When considering this question, the vote in the EU parl…

And yet this is based on an untested assumption that political union is the only way to avoid this. Furthermore, you could argue that the EU contributed to the triggering of a new …

@germanier and @babatong No, you are both wrong. The democratic mandate for EU commissioners is less strong than for directly elected officials. @matt4077 called out that even Came…

It is my understanding that AV was a horrible compromise, desired by no-one (even the smaller parties). Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats was king-maker and part of the c…

Your comment re Merkel, Cameron et al is a strawman: just because the existing system of parliamentary democracy is deeply flawed, it does not follow that another even less democra…

Parliamentary democracies are often deeply flawed and in need of reform. That much is obvious (in the UK at any rate). The problem with the EU is that is is even less democratic an…