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It's clear that Nadella is trying to pull some kind of embrace-extend-extinguish strategy. I would consider part of the same strategy the offering of TypeScript which could be the …

As an EU citizen let me assure you that it is indeed a sales tax. The French guy who conceived it just thought to give it an innocuous name to better sell it to the public. Sure, i…

We live in a big universe that's greatly unexplored both at the macro- and the micro- level, both in the physical and the spiritual realms (since you allude to less material motive…

Relying on analogies to guide one's thinking is so common and so wrong, I guess there must be some Latin phrase to describe it. Plus, as I am sure you are aware, the attempted anal…

Its high time that humanity moved past the notion that sending meatbags into space is a good idea. Pampering to Star Trek fans has squandered trillions of dollars pursuing the "mea…

How about it's tainted with the Microsoft association? Even the appearance of the string "Microsoft" is enough to produce a very visceral reaction to many people. They may suppress…

Grants, careers and reputations aside there are fields like Mathematics where there can be no political agenda because the findings are not input to political decisions. Climate ch…

What? 4 comments already and no ManBearPig joke? Al Gore has done climate science a HUGE disfavor. I am cereal.