nxc182

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by nxc182 10y ago
The latter part of the interviews do exactly that with a work simulation. Very cool.
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by nxc182 10y ago
Food, healthcare, housing, land, education, etc. are almost always taxed differently from everything else, so changing the corporate tax reality should have no effect there. Also note that healthcare and food, (food especially) are heavily
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by nxc182 10y ago
I can't imagine anything more boring or unsatisfying than a relationship (longer than a night or two) driven by sex. I want to have a life partner, not (just) a warm body to ejaculate into.
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by nxc182 10y ago
Try asking the typical anti-GMOer what a GMO is and you'll get your answer. To start with, many don't know what GMO stands for or the basic concept of recombinant genetics. While perhaps a bit of a hyperbole, this video lines up p
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by nxc182 10y ago
It certainly is! That's why I choose software that I think is beautiful. I may think a terminal window is beautiful - if I do then I will choose a terminal. What I won't do is purposefully use user-hostile/ugly software on pr
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by nxc182 10y ago
Most (married) people are spending more time with their computers than their spouses. Would you marry an ugly woman? An ugly man?
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by nxc182 10y ago
This is why we absolutely do not need electronic voting (or electronic vote counting) in any way. Paper voting (with polling locations distributed to balance load) with hand counting and verifiable addition operations to get the final vote
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by nxc182 10y ago
The point of the Windows Subsystem for Linux is that you don't need to run a VM. It is much more efficient in terms of speed (you're not keeping a whole virtualized Linux kernel and everything else running) but also in terms of en
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by nxc182 10y ago
WSL is still in very early beta. It works amazingly well when you consider how early this project is. Windows NT has done a good job supporting multiple APIs/subsystems in the past. Windows NT for example does a perfectly good job with
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by nxc182 10y ago
Glyphosate resistance is just one of many traits marketed by Monsanto. Most of the headliners are insect resistance (Bt toxin) and resistance to other herbicides (Liberty) among others. They're moving their business to focus on value-a