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"$400 a day" and "up to $400 a day" are pretty different. Seems like a decent enough way to make a living though, if he can make it at all consistent over a co
by nebulous1 9y ago
"$400 a day" and "up to $400 a day" are pretty different.
Seems like a decent enough way to make a living though, if he can make it at all consistent over a couple of weeks. Given the article it seems pretty unfair for the NY Post to call him a "hustler". He sounds honest in his dealings with people.
- wahern 9y agoThe article title is more than unfair, it drips with prejudice and, well, racism. When you make the same kind of living from the privacy of a Manhattan apartment by playing rich tycoons, you're a sage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/wall-street-s-best-kept-secret-is-russian-chess-master-lev-alburt The title is clearly clickbait. I'll leave it to the scholars at prestigious universities to bicker about why it works as clickbait. As for the title itself, let's just call a spade a spade.
- sndean 9y agoYeah, I probably should've submitted it with a more pleasant title. "Bobby Fischer of Union Square" or something like that.
- bdcravens 9y agoGenerally speaking, HN prefers you submit with original title, though this may fall under "linkbait": > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
- basseq 9y agoGiven the article it seems pretty unfair for the NY Post to call him a "hustler". Hell, they even quote someone who says he's not a hustler: “I stuck with T.C. because he taught me rather than hustled me.”