So we should assume that a student’s school quality and his/her affluence are 100% correlated because....we’re just too lazy to do anything better?

“should we as a society punish Abigail by allowing UT Austin to use the 7% rule for admittance (and thus deny her entry) even though she was in no way directly responsible for the wrongs that we’re trying to make right?”

If I read that someone was “an officer in every club,” as the author boasts, I’d put her app right at the bottom of the pile. There are people in life who pursue activities because they enjoy them, and there are others who are simply trying to maximize exposure. Colleges already have far too many of the latter.

Or she’ll write blog posts in which she casts herself as being terribly unprivileged relative to the people she is chastising. Great irony.

So everyone is going to be for racism — I mean, affirmative action — in 50 years?

Hey, hey. It’s OK bc it was for minimum wage. Also, she was literally in every musical, an officer in literally every club, and yet for some reason Harvard took a pass so she had to slum it at UVA and remains un-bitter about it to this day.

I tried to write a similar comment, but yours is so much more succinct. This article might the least self-aware piece I have ever read. It made me a tad nauseous to see someone try so hard to establish her own lack of privilege.

Always fun to joke about mass executions based on race. Keep up the contributions!

“In fact I still don’t know what it would be like to feel automatically deserving of something”

Maybe you don’t get it: the people betting on sports and the players competing in them are two different sets of people — except for the rare case of corruption. Meanwhile, back on Wall St., company insiders are allowed to trade their own stock. Analysts with inside information are allowed to tell their clients when…

Big difference is that you were seeing actual PnL. No one sees the actual PnL of touts.

No.

What are you talking about? Sports outcomes are based on an actual human exertion. Stock market outcomes are based on the rise/fall of polls of theoretical value. Which one sounds more arbitrary to you?

Absolutely. Your hourly wage if you are only doing pure arbs will be about $10. Very different story 15 years ago.

The exact same thing is happening in DFS.

I’m thinking more in the online poker boom of the early 2000s [and playing 8 hands at once]. If you weren’t up every month, you just weren’t any good.

That, or just be really good at sports prediction, understand risk, and make a living off it from your home office. it’s certainly the exception, but it does occur.

Eh, poker really doesn’t have the massive swings that sports betting does. A great poker player shouldn’t have any losing months, if he is playing in the right games. Every sports bettor has a ton of losing months on the other hand.

Always good to see the scum exposed. There is literally only one site I know of that forces users to keep accurate records: www.pickmonitor.com. Most people don’t even sell picks there; they just use the platform for performance tracking and analytics. And yes, most of the users are lifetime losing handicappers, just…

Where do all these dogs shit and urinate for three hours? Porta-hydrants?