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by yupper32 5y ago
Sports are important. Being competitive is important. Having hobbies is important. Taking time to do something other than "real life" responsibilities is important. Much of this relies on the inspiration people get from watching t
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by yupper32 5y ago
In the case of Biles, even saying "The top 1" might be understating it.
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> Winning the birth lottery to be smart enough to get the lucrative programming or dev job, is also luck. I literally said I was lucky in that same sentence. Come on now...
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by yupper32 5y ago
I think you just invented VCs.
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by yupper32 5y ago
Just to be clear, calling Biles and Phelps (during his time) the top 1% of their field is the understatement of the century.
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by yupper32 5y ago
Why care about luck? Luck and the family you were born into are two of the big things you can't change. Doesn't matter how much you acknowledge it, it won't change. Putting in the hard (and smart) work and persevering is all
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by yupper32 5y ago
If you think "benefiting society" is how the US government chooses to fund things, I've got a bridge to sell you :)
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> I think Olympic athletes get government funding in the US as well. This is incorrect. "Unlike other national Olympic organizations, [Team USA] receives no government funds. It pays for its operations and helps fund athletes and th
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by yupper32 5y ago
It's exhausting to have to remind people in this thread that I'm talking about way more than the money maker sports. There's not "far too much money" in professional swimming or track & field. Killing the colleg
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by yupper32 5y ago
I don't know what more to tell you. If you want to compete at a high level in the US you often need to fulfill that long list of requirements a few posts above, unless it's a very niche sport. You can also play pickup basketball d
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Its society's problem to solve. We shouldn't do away with college sports without a replacement avenue for people to get into high level sports. Most people who want to do away with college sports seem okay with killing their profe
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by yupper32 5y ago
Because everyone else you're competing against is taking it seriously. Please try to step back and understand why people take it seriously and truly care about sports. You don't seem to understand and don't seem to be actuall
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> We don't subsidise aspiring people in most other fields Yes we do. It's called merit based scholarships.
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by yupper32 5y ago
You're getting bogged down in the details of my example. I know a good amount of people who played D1 sports. One went pro and is competing in the Olympics this year. The others used their degrees to get "normal" jobs when th
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by yupper32 5y ago
Who needs those sports balls on the television, right?
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So in-state tuition at UB would be around $4850 instead of $5200 without sports. Out-of-state would be around $13,750 vs $14,100. Would life be significantly better without sports at UB, if students were given back a few hundred dollars? Wo
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by yupper32 5y ago
NBA? Sure. NFL? Yeah. They can probably fund and figure out the logistics for an operation like this. What about all the other sports? At the moment, we've figured out a way to elevate less lucrative sports like track & field or sw
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by yupper32 5y ago
This would end up killing a bunch of smaller sports, and hurting the larger ones. NCAA covers a massive number of sports. The vast majority of those who go pro in any US sport, first go through an NCAA team. Think about a scenario in the cu
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by yupper32 5y ago
Of all the times to be name dropping Google execs, responding to an article about Google execs is one of them.
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by yupper32 5y ago
> I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack If you don't know if they're working, don't fucking slack them. How about you check their calendar or send an email. Slack is not
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They have an inclinometer, so they know which way is down.
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by yupper32 5y ago
Sorry, I meant that this is self inflicted by the national parks. They know how to run a permit system and if the spaces are actually over crowded they can implement more of these systems across their parks and areas.
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by yupper32 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Americans like nature too much? We protect it too much, including with rangers? We have specific landmarks that are absolutely amazing and popular? If you want to see specific landmarks
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by yupper32 5y ago
I can't read the article, but how is this actually a problem? Set up a permit system and call it a day. They already do that for popular trails/activities.
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by yupper32 5y ago
> Children with phones don't socialize face to face with other children. Where in the world did you pull this out from?
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> I don't like giving cell phones to kids younger than 12 or 13 because childhood should be free of a lot of the technology we use today. The future is technology. You're holding them back, socially and technology skills wise,
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by yupper32 5y ago
> Flight got cancelled? Send me a text, email, whatever. They have all of my information. Text me a link. Airlines always do it for me. Well, at least in the last handful of years I've been flying.
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We've already solved it. There's a service on some airline that I forget that lets you even stream videos (Netflix, Youtube, etc) from the plane without issue. It was absolutely amazing. Gogo, the one that absolutely sucks, locked
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> You're saying that from the perspective of someone who's not currently stranded at an airport. I'm saying it from the perspective of someone who has been stranded at an airport. It's very easy to chill tf out for a
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That's what I put "and" and not "or" after that part of the sentence. Weather is a big one that they don't usually pay out for. You need to be prepared for that to happen, either by being okay with the airport

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