throwaway9324

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by throwaway9324 11y ago
Since I'm going to give up my HN activities after this I'll humor you with a response. While the line between amateur and professional sports have been blurred there are still very real differences. Amateur athletes aren't we
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
College football is amateur i.e. not professional. You can go down any sport and find divisions that aren't paid very well, likewise you can find obscure sports that consider themselves professional but aren't very well paid eithe
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I've realized that this is pretty useless to discuss on HN, with downvotes and anecdotal evidence.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
This is kind of an exception though when it comes to popular team sports and far as I know E-sport is still far from even those relatively bad pay and terms.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
It's plenty of different from other pro sports. The "pro" part largely means getting paid more than it takes to sustain the activity. With some exceptions like pro boxing which isn't exactly a poster boy for ethical prac
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
For reference the height restriction in Paris between 1977 and 2008 was 102 feet for the center and 121 feet further out.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I think you're missing one thing though. Recognition makes it possible for more people, which otherwise wouldn't or couldn't, to have that same experience.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I'm not sure how hard it is to say "[copyright claim] is not valid". It's kind of hard to discuss thing if you come up with your own meaning of things.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
You guys make me feel old. http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BOXES/chrome
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
Correction, E-3 visa i.e. H-1B for Australians. E-2 is if you want to start a business. Not available to, as in the article, Russians though.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
When it comes to visas everyone wants to be special. Unfortunately the international recognized way of being special is having a bachelors degree. If that wasn't a requirement it would probably be even harder skilled workers to get vis
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
That isn't really about the "term of protection" though, but rather the validity of the copyright claim.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
It's still a copyright issue. Despite what people like yourself say, copyright doesn't do a very good job of protecting creators.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
"I just think that its term of protection is long since expired." Why do you think that, it hasn't been 95 years since 1935, or is that a suggestion? "I think things like literature, theater, and so on have considerable
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
"I suspect she started out with the thesis [...] are "oppressed"" The article wasn't about being oppressed, so much as being disempowered. "But they really aren't." Ok. So why aren't they disempo
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
People havn't been paying attention. This market isn't about selling an 8$ thing for 9, 12 or 15. It's about selling a 1$ thing for 10 and a 4$ thing for 40. Which they probably are with the accessories.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
Or just don't live in a police state where cops randomly pull you over, bystanders do nothing and random people come up with excuses.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I fail to see how screening of healthy, relatively young, people would be "data driven".
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I can't help thinking that his comments are seen as "channel-flooding" because he has been isolated. Not only is his comment frequently relegated to the bottom of the page, but people who share his opinions[0] either don&#x27
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
What does that even mean? Every encryption system that works is "super-hard". Maybe everyone using SSH is a suspected agent now.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I find this unremarkable. It's good advice for sure and most people would casually agree with it, but it's not consistent with what YC is doing nor preaching. That doesn't give the advice much weight in my opinion.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
If there's anything that is class-warfare it's not adopting the very proven model of municipality networks. Of course government doing something good doesn't sit right with 'those who can afford'.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I disagree. People who practice critical thinking, like at least some Humanities courses do, become better at it. I think the idea that things are equally good or bad everywhere in large stems from a lack of practice of/in critical thi
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
Plenty of Americans work without a work permit and overstay their visa.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
If there's anything that's worrying it's how eager people are to misunderstand the article in favor of their own preconceived notions. This isn't about competing with SV as a startup hub, but about European companies bei
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
"In reality, gentrification is short term bad, long term good." I would say the opposite. Most of the good effects of gentrification happens in the beginning. Then time becomes a more important factor than gentrification itself. I
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
If you must use an analogy it's a good idea to keep it close to the original act. In this case that could be "accessing the teachers office via keypad". House suggests another level of privacy.
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I've always thought that the biggest unfairness in US computer law is that you're judged for what you could have done and not what you did. I think it's largely because those who made these laws where told how dangerous compu
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
I think more of the business potential of these companies require bad things compared to other companies. Most companies have some sort of core business and the things that in part end up being bad for other are second to that. With DIFM co
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by throwaway9324 11y ago
Many of these companies aspire to things that are great for themselves, like controlling markets and integrating vertically, but not so great for everyone else.

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