The furniture you make yourself is a) unique and b) not artificially scarce.

Isn't it more likely that you don't know your employer as well as market analysts, but that you do have much more severe cognitive biases?

It's possible that a) diet isn't that hard to figure out and b) gamifying, quantifying, testing, and over-extrapolation from isolated scientific results make people confused and much less effective at making the right decisions consistently, which is the part they really need help with.

The welfare state (in the UK) has existed since people who are now 87 were entering the workforce. It used to be a lot more generous.

There is no test for having worked your whole life needed to get an old age pension. Unemployment benefit claimants get a National Insurance stamp.

> There is no test for having worked your whole life needed to get an old age pension.

Isn't there? I think that you need to have shown at least 10 years of national insurance contributions to get the pension: https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/your-national-insurance...

Granted, 10 years is not "your whole life", but there is a test.

As @underwoodley says, you get a credit if you are unemployed, from https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/your-national-insurance...

You may get National Insurance credits if you can’t work - for example because of illness or disability, or if you’re a carer or you’re unemployed.

The Quora discussion doesn't seem to add much. Just a guy saying 'FreeBSD is rock-solid' and '[for] raw performance, .. nothing beats FreeBSD', without giving any technical details.

Based on Neil Gorsuch having worked for him, the secretive billionaire seems to be Philip Anschutz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz

New Yorker article about 'a secretive mogul's entertainment kingdom': https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/16/the-man-who-ow...

This guy worked for the California office of Homeland Security, now works for Anschutz's company: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbettenhausen

(I don't know anything, and I'm not claiming anything about the GP's allegation or their truthfulness. Just wanted to save others the time of making the same Google searches.)

You should be aware that this is a very questionable documentary and the makers of the documentary who are now the presenters of the TV show have been credibly accused of faking footage and exploiting the subject.

> Some journalists and film critics have cast doubt on the filmmakers motivations. Kyle Buchanan of MovieLine questions why the filmmakers would begin obsessively documenting Nev's online relationship so early on, and argues that it is highly improbable that media-savvy professionals like the Schulmans and Joost would not use the Internet to research Megan and her family before meeting them. Buchanan and others have suggested that the filmmakers likely discovered the fabrications in Wesselman-Pierce's story earlier than is presented in the film and pretended to be fooled only so that they could exploit her story for the documentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)#Authenticity

> You should be aware that this is a very questionable documentary

Your links only talk about the film makers; the phenomenon of cat-fishing is real.

Is it possible that Boulder and San Francisco are actually quite different places?

Funny, I've often heard X programming described as 'not trivially easy'.

Maybe doing widgets is hard? If you just want to draw shapes on the screen there honestly isn't an easier way to do it.

I don't see these programs as fundamentally different. The only material different is that one uses a GOTO and the other uses a while loop.

But I don't think either of these is more intuitive. When you learnt how a GOTO works, you probably learnt immediately afterwards how to use it to loop. This loop is a 'pattern', one which you would have to grok as a single idea before you could write a program like the above. This is similar to learning about a while loop, and then knowing you would need one when you wrote the Python script.