Where did you see 'Single-payer or you all die broke' or 'Let the market do its job' in the summary, or TFA for that matter?

Follow the bouncing ball, children.

Because the calculator does the actual work instead of you. You can treat it like a black box and ace a test full of questions you don't understand.

liberate tutamae ex inferis

And how many extra shooting sprees are possible because the general population is so heavily armed?

Right. The New Deal and Great Society and Obamacare are exactly like slavery.

It sounds like they could instead just print "example.com/foo" and let you figure it out yourself.

Yes - multiple someones, in this case.

TFA already points out that there are existing solutions to this problem... sure, they're expensive, but when their example of the finance industry is involved, people will happily pay six, seven figures to get an edge over the competition anyways. If it's not worth the cost, you probably don't need that level of precision. Nice to improve the system, but how much benefit will anyone see from it?

Of course. I loved reading Byte when I was five.

They're already working on the Shi'a.

Steve Jobs would like to loudly announce that his competitor's product has a feature he won't ever implement.

No, it also has Extra Punctuation.

Now all they need to do is stop selling the processors with all cores guaranteed to work and watch sales skyrocket as people buy half a dozen dual-cores in the hopes of getting one that wasn't damaged. And whoever buys the most CPU's every day gets a working one for free...

If you have a full-time job you like and do consulting work on the side, why would you be applying for another job? If you hate your job, it's probably worth a code sample or two to get a better one.