nxc182's comments

The latter part of the interviews do exactly that with a work simulation. Very cool.

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 subsidized by the government already. While I personally believe that distorts the market and should probably stop, even in some doomsday tax-burden-shift scenario that you fear, a bump to subsidies could resolve the worst effects.

Really this is just like any other situation where the government due to structural weaknesses can't set/enforce policy effectively. Just like in the Prohibition or the War on Drugs, neither of which the government was equipped to make happen, the solution is to remove the problematic policies and take a more realistic approach.

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.

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 pretty well with me real-world experience (unfortunately): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzEr23XJwFY

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 principle - if there is a better choice I will choose the better choice.

Most (married) people are spending more time with their computers than their spouses.

Would you marry an ugly woman? An ugly man?

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 counts is what is needed.

Having voted in person at town hall, and then having helped count the votes, I know that it is doable - just like any other laborious task is doable with enough people involved. Electronic voting just doesn't buy you anything more than risk - all at the cost of verifiability.

The other advantage to hand counting with a neighbor nearby is that there is a strong penalty for manipulating the election - your neighbor will notice. These machines make it way too easy to manipulate elections at mass scale without detection.

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 energy. I can run bash on my Surface (not pro) 3 without any noticeable hit to battery life and without hurting performance.

If 'real linux' is the Linux userspace, then that's what you're getting with Ubuntu - all of 'Linux' except the Linux kernel. WSL allows the NT kernel to handle all of the Linux syscalls. If you consider just the public interface, then WSL is also 'real linux'.

Of course this is all theoretical because there are still some bugs here and there. Those are being dealt with and WSL is making great progress.

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 the Win32 subsystem - software targeting Win32 for '95, '98, etc. still works on Windows 10, perfectly, despite being a totally different kernel.

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-adds and other things that GMO haters can't torpedo with pseudoscience and FUD. Refuge in Bag solutions, seed coatings, new fungicides, traditional breeding, soil bacteria supplements, mapping & climate data, and other agricultural productivity solutions are the future of their business.

Even if you accept that they make all of their money from glyphosate resistance (which is patently false), the business is moving to emphasis that substantially less than it is now.