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60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone.
A Minneapolis guaranteed basic income program found that after a year of giving recipients $500 a month, they were more financially secure and didn't work less.
Me, when I started programming again in the 2010s—after a 25-year gap—I turned instead to newer languages like Python and JavaScript. Every once in a while, though, I’ll hunt down an ...
Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language, Altair ...
Meanwhile in Mountain View, 160 families will be selected for a basic income program that is expected to provide $500 a month for 12-24 months starting in May or June. Perhaps the most notable ...
Over 100 basic income pilots in the US have offered no-strings-attached cash payments to low-income families. Aimed at combating poverty, GBI faces political challenges and funding constraints ...
A computer program in BASIC was developed following methods used by Birch (1948) to calculate life table parameters for an arthropod from experimental data. Actual data were presented as an example ...