One needle. Two hundred and fifty thousand pieces of hay. It is in there.
Hold to gather hay, carry it across the yard to the goat, and get paid $0.01 a piece. Spend it on reach, boots, a bigger armful, and the instruments that turn a slow handful into a shift's work. Somewhere under the stack is a needle. Nothing pays out until the goat has eaten what you brought it.
Everything here makes the search faster. Nothing here finds the needle for you.
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The needle is yours. The stack is not, and it never was.
Gather it, carry it to the goat and feed it, spend what it pays. One needle is buried in the stack: dig to it and pick it up by hand.