It's simply an unintuitive but correct mathematical fact. It's possible to have migration than makes every individual better off but reduces overall GDP per capita. Whether it's a good idea or not is… (View Post)

Bart's point is completely true, and your gripe about benefits claimants is not relevant to it. Even if we did cut benefits, are those people going to be wiping bums? Of course not. Care work is resp… (View Post)

It's got to be an improvement on VBA (shudder). (View Post)

You use whatever has the best libraries for whatever it is you want to do. If that's Python, then great. And if it's JavaScript, for God's sake use TypeScript! (View Post)

Looking at the stats for European countries, there seems to be a pretty close correlation between religious devotion and low birth rates. Countries with higher levels of church attendance (e.g. Italy… (View Post)