• The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100 https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4959650/the-last-programming-project-from-bill-gates-microsoft-basic-for-trs-80-model-100 56 comments 5/12/2023 programming
• [Article from SB Nation, published during the 2018 NFL Draft] If Josh Allen succeeds, the Bills will have outsmarted basically all regular humans and the entirety of math itself https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/4/24/17271686/josh-allen-nfl-draft-2018-stats-analysis-comparisons 205 comments 9/7/2022 nfl
• Sanders Urges House Progressives to Tank Basic Infrastructure Bill https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-infrastructure-house-progressives-tank-bill-nancy-pelosi-2021-9 289 comments 28/9/2021 politics
• California Democrats advance universal basic income bill with no funding mechanism - The bill could cost over $200 billion annually if most California adults received the payments. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/29/california-democrats-advance-universal-basic-income-bill-with-no-funding-mechanism-485048 45 comments 1/5/2021 politics
• Idaho Governor Signs 2 Bills into Law Denying Trans People Basic Rights https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epg9wj/idaho-governor-signs-2-bills-into-law-denying-trans-people-basic-rights 115 comments 1/4/2020 politics
• CalUBI A bill has been proposed to implement universal basic income in california http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billnavclient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ab2712&fbclid=iwar0wuyvj36umyurdl7u4kxydwx_8m0mhpnhoyrnnyzrau_mp3c7xipvfqae 32 comments 22/2/2020 politics
• State Lawmaker Introduces Universal Basic Income Bill; Californians Over 18 Would Get $1K Per Month https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/02/21/california-universal-basic-income-bill-introduced/ 52 comments 21/2/2020 politics
• Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says - On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/16/20867340/bill-de-blasio-2020-new-york-city-nyc-jobs-religion-robot-tax-recode-decode-kara-swisher-podcast 5 comments 16/9/2019 technology
• Bill Belichick on New York Giants: "I think Coach Shurmur’s done a great job down there, really returning to fundamentals, basics, and you can certainly see that in their play in all three phases of the game.” https://giantswire.usatoday.com/2019/08/29/bill-belichick-pat-shurmur-has-done-great-job-new-york-giants/ 145 comments 29/8/2019 nfl
• [Bill Simmons] Jimmy Butler is basically the "Terrell Owens going to the Phillies" after he's been a toxic teammate for every team he had been on. What he has done for Timberwolves as a teammate was completely reprehensible. https://www.theringer.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast/2018/11/12/18087138/jimmy-butler-trade-dallas-cowboys-trubisky-groupies-week-11-lines-with-cousin-sal 80 comments 12/11/2018 nba
• CA Governor Jerry Brown just signed the wildfire bill which is basically a bail out (which customers are paying) for a utility company that caused the fires https://abc7news.com/ca-gov-signs-measure-that-lets-utilities-bill-customers-to-pay-for-wildfire-costs/4304467/ 11 comments 21/9/2018 politics
• The GOP Tax Bill Is Basically Like Throwing Gasoline On The Dumpster Fire That Is the Climate Crisis http://inthesetimes.com/article/20723/gop-tax-bill-senate-climate-environment/ 4 comments 1/12/2017 politics
• ‘Wait, the tax bill is about to pass the Senate?’ — everyone following the Michael Flynn news, basically https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/01/wait-the-tax-bill-is-about-to-pass-the-senate-everyone-following-the-michael-flynn-news-basically/ 153 comments 1/12/2017 politics
• The GOP Can Now Pass a Health Care Bill That’s Basically Just a Blank Piece of Paper http://fortune.com/2017/07/25/health-care-bill-senate-skinny-repeal 48 comments 25/7/2017 politics
• New Bill Would Provide for Basic Human Needs of Incarcerated Women https://eji.org/news/new-bill-recognizes-needs-of-menstruating-and-pregnant-women-in-prison 16 comments 16/7/2017 politics
• Mitch McConnell Is Pissed That Donald Trump Doesn't Have a Basic Grasp of the Health Care Bill http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-beef?mbid=social_facebook 80 comments 28/6/2017 politics
• Trump fumes after NYT report suggests he didn’t know ‘basic elements’ of Senate health care bill https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fumes-nyt-report-suggests-didnt-know-basic-elements-senate-health-care-bill-134459271.html?.tsrc=fauxdal 478 comments 28/6/2017 politics
• Hawaii Proposes Universal Basic Income Bill http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/hawaii-proposes-universal-basic-income-bill-20170616-0018.html 13 comments 17/6/2017 worldnews
• Terrance "Pot Roast" Knighton on his time in New England: “One time, I did an interview and I gave a guy credit...We got in a team meeting and Bill Belichick called me out, basically said to me, ‘You’re not an expert, you’re not a D-line expert, we don’t need you evaluating guys." http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/06/12/knightons-time-in-new-england-included-plenty-of-direction-on-how-to-deal-with-the-media/ 184 comments 12/6/2017 nfl
• Report: Rex Ryan “basically dedicated” the Bills' 2016 season to “resurrecting the reputation” of Rob and gave him the “run of the place.” http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/report-rex-ryan-gave-brother-rob-run-of-the-place-during-bills-disastrous-2016/ 585 comments 10/4/2017 nfl
• The new Republican "healthcare death bill" is basically a tax cut ($600 billion) funded by gutting Medicaid. Period. https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/06/the-gops-obamacare-repeal-bill-is-here-i 4 comments 7/3/2017 politics
• Tyrod Taylor - How a little basic game theory could have saved the Buffalo Bills from a costly, embarrassing mistake http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2017/01/contracts-american-football?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/ 24 comments 12/1/2017 nfl
• He spent a year in jail and lost his business, but they had the wrong Carlos: Carlos Ortega spent a year in jail, ran up almost $300,000 in legal bills and lost his livelihood — all over a basic transcription error and what his lawyers say was an overzealous South Florida prosecutor http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article98056167.html 17 comments 8/9/2016 politics
• Bill Gates: “I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a year from the U.S. government to fund basic research alone...Now, as a percentage of the government budget, that’s not gigantic… This is not an unachievable amount of money.” http://www.salon.com/2015/10/29/bill_gates_the_private_sector_is_completely_inept_partner/ 66 comments 31/10/2015 politics
• Right wing talking point: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush had basically the same policy on Iraq. Rated False. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/16/facebook-posts/meme-says-bill-clinton-george-w-bush-had-basically/ 12 comments 16/6/2015 politics
• A controversial bill could require couples to prove they don't have certain diseases, including STD's before getting a marriage license. Under this new provision, if a person has a disease that can passed to another person, they basically won't be able to get married in Oklahoma. http://www.newson6.com/story/28133846/proposed-bill-couples-must-prove-they-dont-have-stds-before-marriage-in-ok 13 comments 18/2/2015 politics
• Researchers Find Factors Tied To Voting Restriction Bills Are 'Basically All Racial' http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/study-finds-voting-restrictions-linked-to-minority-turnout 173 comments 20/12/2013 politics
• A draft bill from the Republican-led House Committee on Science would force the US National Science Foundation to document how its basic science grants benefit the country. Many scientists object that this is tantamount to asking them to predict the future. http://www.nature.com/news/republican-proposal-puts-national-interest-requirement-on-us-science-agency-1.14102 474 comments 6/11/2013 science
• The U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world not to have some form of universal healthcare for all its citizens, generally because conservatives view it as a form of socialism or redistribution of wealth (as if basic insurance, where one person pays another's bills, isn't). http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/60778-tornoes-take-on-healthcare 286 comments 11/10/2013 politics
• AZ Gov Jan Brewer signed a bill that basically wipes out Libertarian and other third-party candidates, boosting their signature requirements to unattainable levels. http://xrepublic.tv/node/3876 6 comments 21/6/2013 politics
• Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize so much as a penny more in spending. It merely allows the Treasury to borrow the money to pay the bills that previous Congresses and presidents have already incurred. If Boehner can’t or won’t handle that basic responsibility, he needs to resign. http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/11/27/no-speaker-boehner-some-things-have-no-pricetag/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog 125 comments 28/11/2012 politics
• House bill basically provides Israel with a blank check drawn on the U.S. taxpayer to maintain its “qualitative military edge” over all of its neighbors combined. http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/05/16/house-passes-stealth-legislation/?? 51 comments 19/5/2012 politics
• SOPA bill's sponsor says, basically, Reddit is full of shit. http://news.yahoo.com/fears-sopa-unfounded-says-bills-sponsor-113339814.html 3 comments 9/1/2012 technology
• Florida judge "has basically struck down the entire health care bill." Full text of his decision. http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/default.aspx 32 comments 31/1/2011 politics
• Bill Gates: "What the f*k do you idiots think you’re doing? Is this thing REALLY 8 F*ing BASIC’s?” http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/04/30/123910.aspx 179 comments 27/8/2009 programming
• 32 million adults lack basic literacy skills to read medicine bottles or utility bills or fill out job applications http://www.proliteracy.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=610 9 comments 25/6/2009 reddit.com
• Thomas Friedman on Obama: "In so many ways he's off to a terrific start. The stimulus plan has all this pork and what not, but basically on the renewable industry is fantastic . The stimulus bill has reinvigorated and relaunched the whole renewable industry in America. It's hugely important" [VIDEO] http://fora.tv/2009/03/05/thomas_friedman_s_obama_administration_update#thomas_friedman_judges_obamas_first_moves_as_president 4 comments 12/3/2009 politics
• Bill would bar teachings counter to democracy: "Bill basically says, 'You're here. Adopt American values. If you want a different culture, then fine, go back to that culture." http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/breakingnews/82833.php 6 comments 17/4/2008 politics
• Hawaii just became the first US state to pass a bill supporting basic income — here's the man behind it http://www.businessinsider.com/man-behind-hawaii-basic-income-bill-2017-7 13 comments 6/7/2017 politics
• I bet you thought that if you bought a house, you actually own it and can, with reasonable exceptions, do with it what you want. Section 304 of Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill says, basically, that your house belongs to the state http://www.americanissuesproject.org/blogs/aip/archive/2009/07/08/if-you-don-t-hate-the-cap-and-trade-bill-let-me-show-you-section-304.aspx 8 comments 8/7/2009 politics