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Light on content but had a neat riddle (I actually "solved" or guessed it pats self on back)

"You're standing on the surface of the Earth," Musk begins, according to the book. "You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?"

Answer in the article.



This riddle doesn't look hard at all (solved it nearly instantly after reading it), but I'm not sure I could provide an instant answer during such stressful conditions as mentioned in the article.


That's what I thought when I first read it (how easy) but then realized that under stress, expecting an impossible mind teaser, a nervous applicant might mess it up.


Depends if where you started is based on coordinates or a location on the ice, and how long it takes you to walk the distance.

I would do nearly anything to work for him in cali.




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