nigh-impossible

Caring for others that well is nigh-impossible, but it's the unattainable standard a church strives for.

That's why I think the GP's complaints about pointers making safe shared data nigh-impossible in C++ was maybe overstated.

But as a contrast, the American industries where firing is nigh-impossible for performance-related reasons (K-12 education, civil service) by and large perform terribly overall.

But informants who have to be kept secret from the government is another matter – it’s nigh-impossible, even for an expert, to keep such things secret from the NSA and all its collaborators (knowing and unknowing).

Just an example, but up until maybe a generation ago, it was nigh-impossible to get a mortgage on your house if you were black or decided to live in a neighborhood that was less than 95% white.

It would be great in the long run (i.e., when the developer tires of full-time work) if it were open source, but it's nigh-impossible to support oneself with open source applications, so it seems healthier now for it to be a proprietary app.

As far as being objectively good enough, that is an extremely tough call for anyone to make about themselves, because you have biases; if you're really good, you can account some for those, but true objectivity is nigh-impossible.

I would like to go legit this time around, but it's nigh-impossible to find any specific documentation from Microsoft which states, in plain, simple English, how I would go about getting the proper license to cover my use case.

> After all, trying to eradicate advantages-by-birth might be the most futile exercise in human history A 100% inheritance tax would be nigh-impossible in practical terms but in abstract it would go a long way to further the end of creating a society more closely based on merit.