Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Literally eternity? Then a monkey with a typewriter could get out. But someone who can't Fizzbuzz might *not* get out because they would literally never think of trying all possible solutions, or devise a valid informal iterator for them if they did.

The category “poor countries that seem to produce a lot of coders” is just a list of poor countries with very large populations. Brains suitable for coding are ~evenly distributed while opportunities are not.

"anyone can learn to do it" "Higher than average IQ and passionate interest is all that's needed"

Yes, because "I can't perform the basic mental operations integral to what x *is*, but I have a passion for x" is incoherent. Passion requires some basic degree of ability. If you're arguing you can leverage a lot from there, I agree. But not everyone has even that to start with.

IQ doesn't mean that. It's not like below a certain IQ you can't understand what an integer is. It just makes you faster at learning it. Passion means you'll devote more time to it and therefore learn faster compared to someone of equal ability without that.