If you wanted to write a quick on off script then using magic variables,etc made sense. Writing something you’ll keep? Don’t use those. When Perl 5 introduced references they could have simplified the syntax though.

The rich will be the people who control the finite resources. If you have land that can be mined you will be rich if you can protect it and sell the thing that is actually limited.

It sounds like this expired each year. So it is 100k extra per year.

An H1B is a three year visa. The new proclamation itself expires after a year unless it's renewed, but it didn't actually adjust any other rules of the visa to my knowledge.

So the one year seems to be the trial policy of the $100K, but it sounds like it's a single payment per visa, then normal visa policy comes into play.

Schools my kids attended encourage getting ahead by offering advanced math classes, some being online

The main advantage is to make the last 10-20 years better by avoiding injury. Maybe you do t even need 10 hours a week for that, more like 5

The biggest danger will be once we have robots that can build themselves and do enough to run power plants, mine, etc ...

Agreed. There is a sandwich place called Jimmy Johns and sometimes they’ll be playing crazy metal music and is kind of fun as long as I’m getting takeout.

They have a friends feed which will also include some adds

True, but what options do we have to lower those payments?

Austerity measures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity)

People will be unhappy though

Based on previous performance, not electing Trump would have helped.

But Elon's first act as efficiency co-czar was to get get Trump elected and he'll now need to trim Trillions just to come out even.

The article does address use of nets