I've been preaching a basic income or a while now. They need to stop directly manipulating the market and just solve the problem. The problem is making sure people have enough to live. So we translate that to this idea that people have a right to a job or a right to a certain amount of money in a job. A basic income applied to all removes bureaucracy/decisions and eliminates minimum wage, unemployment insurance, social security, medicare, and medicaid. It also brings full employment (as defined by people willing to work). If you are getting enough money to live by just existing, then you can mow my lawn and clean my house every week to get cable TV if you really want it. And I can pay less for it, out of pocket, than I would today.

Correct. To a point. Everyone will have the opportunity to have a job if they elect to take it. There will be millions of penny jobs.

It creates other problems, but there is no question minimum wage creates unemployment.

Unless you are on a Real Time System. But then you KNOW how much processor time you will get and you KNOW how many clock cycles your execution requires.

The problem is simple. People want progress in "time remaining" and you aren't copying "time". So you have to do a translation of non-time to time and that is hardly ever linear.

When most people use more than 2 passwords across all sites, they need to write them down. I know there are tools out there, like hashing for specific sites, but is my 65 yr old mother going to use it? Or are they going to put it in Excel, print it out, and put it in their top drawer?

I forgot to mention that I am 15 years removed from when I learned that stuff.

This is why I never took notes in class. It may sound counter-intuitive. However, by taking notes, I only pay attention to the subject of the notes instead of actually listening to the teacher. I always made it a point to listen to teacher, process the information, and predict where they are going next. When you are at that point, you will likely retain the information. A little follow up on the information a week later can be used to verify that you retained the process/methodology taught. I never tried to memorize the specifics; only fully understand the abstract concepts.

For instance, several months ago I couldn't remember how to do the derivative of something. I remembered simple derivatives and the reasoning behind the limit equation. I didn't remember the limit equation, but I knew how to come up with it. So I came up with it in my head and was like, "ok, I remember that now". Then I applied it to whatever I was trying to figure out. And from there I noticed the easier way to do it.

This is actually how I typically think. I really threw my English teachers for a loop. I would remember what a contextually the most inconsequential part of a chapter, but forget the details about some major revelation.

Like a CD? They are smaller (than the 5.25 floppies) and hold more. And they are dirt cheap.

The "Open Championship" is not referred to as the British Open by most people because it was the first open championship. Everyone has to name themselves around it. When some other organization has their own Dalai Lama, should the real Dalai Lama have to rename himself the "Buddist Dalai Lama"?

Did the start of the Iraq War. 9/11? Election of Obama? Tsunami of 2004? There are some events that transcend the subject matter of the site.

Also, the Catholic Church is historically linked to a whole lot of scientific history. For good or not for good.

A Computer Science degree should have no bearing on code structure or comments. Other sources of information, or likely the lack of real interest in software design, is why they write crappy code.

True Computer Science is nearly useless for front-end web development. You are better off with some art driven usability degree. Frankly, Universities should start Art of Usability degree. It is desperately needed in the field.

Does he remain infallible after stepping down? If so, there will be two infallible people at the same time. Assuming infallible people could exist, is it logically possible for 2 to exist? Or do they simply have to be thinking the same thing about everything? I would assume that this pope would just have to keep his mouth shut as to not potentially conflict with the new pope.

I'm sorry, but residents of NYC use roads just as much as people in rural Kansas. Although they don't use them personally, most of the products they buy, including food, uses those roads. And we both know, people in north Jersey and NYC spend more than people in rural Kansas. Plus food HAS to travel to get to a city. A farmer could produce it on their own.

In my opinion, beaches nor roads should be subsidized. However, roads are more justified. Everyone is GREATLY affected by roads. Not so for beaches. I would bet that 35% of the country never goes to a beach in their lifetime. And the beach will always be there, just that someone else's property will become beachfront. Insurance can cover the lost property.

They are better off subsidizing farms based on the size of the farmed land than subsidizing a specific crop. At least it doesn't twist the food market.

How does arguing about the Federal subsidies of roads and highways counter the argument of subsidizing beaches? People living in and around beaches benefit just as much from subsidized roads and highways. However, you can't say the same about subsidies of beaches.

Beach communities should pay to fortify their beach. And this should be true across the US as to not give one beach an advantage over another. There is plenty demand from tourists to offset the costs. And if the community or someone else can't put up the money to repair it, then it apparently wasn't worth existing for the general public.

That said, I was in the Sandy storm as well. Worse than future subsidies that will come this way were the government interference in pricing. I couldn't get a hot water heater for 3.5 weeks...not because there was a shortage, but because we weren't allowed to be "gouged". I wanted to pay more for the ability to clean shit (literally) off stuff from the basement and take even warm showers. But I wasn't allowed. Similarly, they guaranteed a gas shortage. Pricing is a natural way to prevent a shortage.

If he sells it all, will he be the first all cash billionaire, if only for a minute before he converts them to Treasuries, bonds, and other stocks?