The article should not have delved into this as its a can of worms - stick with the industry, programming and math.
Its funny that the article uses a “chess champion” and a “concert pianist” as examples to to argue that you don’t question their occupations when it comes to being a benefit to mankind or not. I mean, the huge fucking salaries, where does the money come from? from fucking trees?
WTF! Seriously? I predict this will be one of the first article/HN post that has negative publicity for Jane Street .
That logic of the “break” keyword given a parameter is unusual compared to to other languages.
Maybe it was a bad example to use.