Hmmmmm: I'm not 100% convinced. Textiles was one the very first industries to be mechanised, but it hasn't really changed the need for low cost labour. The machines are cheap, can be moved … (View Post)

I like the entirely non-binary nature of simply naming your kids by birth order. We personally went binary. And obviously, taking our queue from indices, started at zero. So, they're zero, one, … (View Post)

We debated having a fixed length, but felt that would either be wasteful or -worse- we'd run out of address space and need to start over. There was also the question about whether we should use … (View Post)

Oh, my first posting on this was completely wrong: I assumed that she -like me- had no idea. (View Post)

Oh come on @BlancheLivermore, I was all for calling for Rayner's resignation because she dodged taxes (or at the very least took actions to remain ignorant of them). That was a serious offence: … (View Post)