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by jgwil2 5y ago
Could you elaborate?
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Well yeah, the tennis example is pretty limited as an analogy because it's the players themselves, their parents, and maybe coaches who do the investing. Also, flattening the payouts is better if you want more people playing tennis pro
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> But this ultimately leads to the ATP tour being solidified and newcomers being barred from entry as now the player ranked 250 is now earning an income that they can afford much better training than outsiders. No, it would make it more
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> Back in 2019, Rafael Nadal earned $16 million in prize money playing tennis. Gael Monfils, in ninth place, earned $3 million. > These are the kind of sharp income disparities that lead Elizabeth Warren to say the economy is rigged.
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Every season except summer is getting shorter(washingtonpost.com)
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> > Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing. > strike me as incredibly weird, almost like a verbal version of the uncann
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Not OP but most Western European countries have a public broadcasting company that can be a good source (e.g. France 24 for French, DW for German) if you are learning one of those languages.
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GP originally said "across the Pacific Ocean," hence my comment. GP has since been corrected to "Atlantic Ocean," but I can no longer edit or delete this comment.
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Pacific?
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Sounds like cheeser is a pretty good equivalent to pusher, although it does actually take a pretty high skill level to beat a good pusher in tennis. In that sense they're a good test of your level. Sounds like scrubs are just complaine
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by jgwil2 5y ago
That's true, that's why I say pushers have a lower ceiling. But it takes an awful lot of time, practice, skill and conditioning to get to higher tiers of the game, so even modestly skilled pushers can beat up on a lot of people.
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Interesting that in video gaming, there's a derogatory term for people who eschew the "cheap" moves, whereas in tennis, the derogatory term ("pusher") refers to the players who embrace the "cheap" moves. P
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Yeah, I'm seeing some issues with Code by Petzold citing comments that are talking about e.g. Code Complete or just code in general, but with such a generic name (and given the forum) it's actually pretty impressive to me that
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If you have a hypothetical country with a huge swath of empty land, and a single city with the population density of Hong Kong, the population density of that country will appear to be low, but in fact all the people living in the country l
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There's also a book about him by the same title.
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Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28523946
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> Anyway, calling the US system "anti-democratic" is absurd It was clear from the context that I was talking about the Senate bias towards rural states, not the overall system. > I'm not sure how to have a reasonable co
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> The Democrats completely ignored rural and blue-collar America for a decade and then for 5 years after that, lambasted them as racists, white supremacists, and the cause of virtually every social ill and historical moral failure in our
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My point is that Republicans are in a position to offend urban voters without loss of power, and part of that is due to the Senate, along with the other things listed. It seems like your position is that Democrats should have to compromis
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Most people organize their days such that the first thing they do when they wake up is go to work, and most people also start work in the mornings.
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> The "right" balance of representation between rural and urban voters is a subjective question No, in representative democracy, it isn't subjective at all. Each voter should be represented equally. > the fact that one
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Immersion, but since that isn't feasible for most people, traditional textbooks with a teacher, Mango Languages or similar software, consuming media in the target language, etc. And ideally in combination with each other so you're
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Right... there have never been governments that oppressed the majority of their citizens.
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> It's not an "ad hominem attack" to point out someone's apparent lack of experience with the subject of their comment. It is if, as the other comment did, you just claim I don't know what I'm talking about
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They're not a democracy so they don't really have to justify anything.
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> they decided to go out of their way to alienate rural voters This is beside the point. Rural voters are overrepresented by the structure of the Senate. You could argue that Democrats have used poor political tactics, but the fact is
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Do explain. Edit: I've been clear about my reasoning; you have just resorted to ad hominem attacks on my understanding or emotional intelligence. If you don't have any actual counterargument, I'll consider the debate to be ov
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"Romanes eunt domus" was the original sentence, corrected to "Romani ite domum."
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How do British people pronounce the date that they write as 15 September, 2021? Americans write the date the same way we pronounce it (September 15), but this leads to the unfortunate mm/dd/yy style of abreviation.
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Do you claim that a two month old can unambiguously express being distressed by the sight of a parent wearing a mask? We're talking about a child who is too young to even smile. Their only way of expressing themselves is by crying, and

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