It's extremely common in lots of creative and technical fields. It is usually restricted to work related to the employer's field and the employee's function, but one could imagine some employers of folks in the creative arena being a bit more... expansive in their interpretation.

If you mean adding the years of the events to a timeline to match to, I think that's too much information.

In this case, I knew the rough dates of all but one of the events in the list; adding years in a timeline would have given the last away.

I suspect that the later (Win 7+) versions of Windows solitaire (and minesweeper, for that matter) did, in fact, cull the unwinnable games.

I don't know of any algorithm to cull non-winnable Klondike games. Playing deal-1 instead of deal-3, and with unlimited flipping of the stock, the win chance is probably close to 50%, but that still makes 2000 in a row statistically impossible.

My guess is that the poster's mom was actually playing FreeCell, in which nearly every game is winnable and people do get streaks like that.

You don't need an algorithm. You can just record seeds that are solvable. The current version of Klondike in MS Solitaire is winnable unless you play "Random" difficulty.

It’s quite doable, if you don’t mind culling some winnable games too. The object isn’t to have a perfect classifier.

Draw 1 is much more winnable than draw 3. With perfect knowledge (or an infinite undo stack), evidently ~80% of Klondike games are winnable. With imperfect knowledge but good strategy, humans win about 11% of draw 3 games. So given they have implemented a more rudimentary strategy (first come, first serve), 8.5% doesn't seem that low.

If your time is so important that you can't wait for kids to cross the street, get a helicopter.

We have National Monuments and National Historic Sites/Parks for "this isn't nature but should still be a site maintained by the Federal Government".

> If you were breast-fed, you drank raw milk as a child

If people were drinking raw milk directly out of the udder, in a clean environment and blessed with a baby cow's immune system and microbiome, that would be pertinent, but they aren't. Even human breast milk extracted in a clean environment with sanitized tools gets risky very quickly when stored.

I know a number of people who have allergies to some animal products (notably eggs or dairy). Given the growing familiarity with (and catering to) vegan diets, they find it much easier to use "is it vegan" as a shortcut to "can I eat this" rather than interrogate food workers about specific ingredients.

We both must be close to the truth which we will never know. My guess was that he was lactose intolerant.

If I have trillions of monkeys on typewriters generating every possible combination of characters, and then from what they "produce" I carefully select what I want to show everyone who comes to my website, how responsible am I for what my visitors see?

> you're just average SWE on $120k / year and absolutely no money for hiring small army of guards

FWIW, in this instance Adam Back is also a non-secret billionaire, mostly from his public involvement in a number of ventures within the Bitcoin ecosystem. The difference is closer to 1 order of magnitude than the 4 you're proposing.

You are right, but this is not the first investigation.

Also there is massive difference between being rich, or even a super rich and literally hidding $50B under your bedsheet on USB stick.

No one expects that putting a gun to even a super rich person head will buy you a small country. You can kill a billionare, but you cant extract much value out of it other than $100k on their credit card and $500k watch neither of which you can really sell.

Havimg keys to $50B on USB stick is different level of danger.