Generally I agree with the sentiment, for one major reason: debugability/dev loops.
Inevitably you're going to end up having to debug that each of those steps is correct, for that you'll find it a lot easier to break it out.. and the next person who has to do it will as well.
I do think the example is somewhat loaded though, rename "result" to "top5ActiveUserNames" would do a lot there.
I'm not sure Bitcoin won.. it just continues being a ponzi scheme that you can make money in.
You can also accept that certain things and be happy in life either way. Don't need to chase get rich schemes. Some are more privileged than others in being able to do this.
Donated. Thank you and everyone else on the PyPy team.
I use PyPy regularly on an app of mine, and very often when I need to do some compute heavy load. Typically over 5x faster than CPython. It makes some stuff that takes impossibly long with CPython (nobody wants to wait 5 minutes...), to returning a response in a few seconds.
Correlation is not causation? A better guess would be that businesses are choosing places where the next generation of employees wants to live and work... happens to be cities on the coasts that also have public transit systems.