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A Better US Income Tax
People hate taxes, and everyone can agree to disagree on them. One thing most people agree on though is that it’s too complicated. Here is a diagram of the US income tax in 2008. US Income Tax 2008 What’s wrong with the current piecemeal tax rate? It’s complicated. People want to earn less...
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Published 3 months ago

Website Contact Page Finally Fixed
The contact form for this website has finally been fixed! For some reason the Wordpress mail sending function refused to work. All thanks go to this handy plugin which uses SMTP instead of the PHP function mail. http://www.codexon.com/contact Leave a Comment | Donate
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Published 3 months ago

Wife beating and domestic violence might be human nature
Recently England has mandated that children from the age of 5 would be taught “how to prevent violent relationships“. One could explain nearly any “odd” but prevalent human behavior through evolutionary psychology. You would think it would be strange to attack someone you were living...
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Published 4 months ago

Google hires laid-off Microsoft evangelist. He then writes a blog post bashing Microsoft.
As some of you may already know, Don Dodge was a former Microsoft “evangelist” who evidently had connections. The instant he announced being fired from Microsoft, it was featured as a prominent story on Techcrunch and other news venues. I for one would never have heard about him if he...
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Published 4 months ago

Microsoft Bing Cashback Fail
It was recently “discovered” (or really just blogged about) by competing website bountii.com that Bing was using a hilariously insecure method for recording “Cashback” purchases. The cashback program is simply where Microsoft pays you a percentage for searching and shopping through Bing....
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Published 4 months ago

Free Google Wave Invites
I just received 20 “invitations” for Google Wave. Anyone want one? Update: Only 4 left. Priority will be given to frequent readers who ask for one. Update2: No more invitations left for now. 25 comments | Donate
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Published 5 months ago

How to find the average sale price of items on Ebay
If you are looking for a good deal on Ebay, how do you know how much you should pay? Ebay’s “search completed listings” is fairly useless. It only lasts 15 days, and often comes up with no results. Looking at other active listings are also useless if no one is selling the same item. The...
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Published 5 months ago

OKCupid Dating Racism: OKCupid Confirms It
I don’t like to pull the “I told you so” card, but when you have so many people, telling you otherwise, you simply have to. A short summary: Last week, OKCupid, an online dating website showed a diagram of message reply rates by males to females arranged by race. They left out the axis...
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Published 5 months ago

OKCupid dating statistics shows racism very much alive
Update: See the new statistics here OkCupid is a free dating website that is interesting for releasing statistics on its users. Today they finally touched upon the subject of religion and race. You can see some statistics here, but they left the most interesting portion out as a teaser for next...
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Published 6 months ago

A Bigger Hard Drive Is Not Always Faster
Everyone knows that rotation speed affects the speed of your hard drive. For example 7200 RPM is faster than 5200 RPM. Some people know that “bigger” (more capacity) hard drives of the same size means faster. If you have more data packed into a smaller area, it is logical that it would take...
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Published 6 months ago