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Coaches & sports staff at the high level you are referring to, are NOT funded by the university budget. They're funded by specific athletic funds that is from sports revenue & that boosters pay into.

This is not an equivalent scenario - you're basically saying that a University should go set up an IT Booster Fund and have interested parties pay into it in order to pay these market rates - which they wouldn't (would you? I sure wouldn't).

"The other problem with the salary comparison is that Alabama taxpayers aren't paying Mr. Saban, and so his salary doesn't take any money away from professors. One of the benefits to come out of the rampant commercialism of college athletics is that media conglomerates and sneaker companies are willing to pay huge sums for the broadcast and apparel rights. Thus, Mr. Saban will be paid out of Alabama's $70 million athletic budget, with little or no impact on academic departments."[0]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160325043141/http://www.wsj.com...

Otherwise WaPo has been good - but obviously slants to D.C. politics.

base64 decode "Where have you been?"

However, that doesn't really address/solve the problem as to why they need to take a down round.

I'd have a hard time believing that, to be honest.

You can always use !g interobang if you want to search google

Actual link.

Journalists deserve to get paid for their work.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/business/fatal-tesla-cr...

I'd also argue that there is a difference between incident and fatality. Incidents are also bad - even if they're not fatal.

This almost feels like the Blu Ray and HD DVD war - yeah, Blu Ray beat HD DVD, but digital beat out both. At what point do self driving cars mean that Uber no longer has a competitive advantage in transportation? Aka if you remove the need to sign up drivers, then you're just competing on cost of a vehicle + overhead as the cost to a customer to switch from Uber to say 'FordNow!' is so low - I just download another app.

Uber is competing with all forms of transportation and to beat everyone there is a long time to try to wait and stay solvent for.

"It’s sort of a lonely job. The adage that it’s lonely — the CEO job is lonely — is accurate in a lot of ways. I’m not looking for any sympathy. You have to recognize that you have blind spots. We all do. Blind spots move, and you want to not just have really bright people around you, but people who will push on you and people to bring out the best in you. People that amplify whatever you’re good at. And then also the people who plug the parts that you’re not and may never be."

Your first paragraph is exactly how I describe Amazon to people. You either love the culture - or you hate it. There are very few people I know who are ambivalent about working there.

It's hard work. It's important work. It's demanding work. It's not for everyone.

A16Z has a lot of in house partners that focus on things other than just investments.

Edit: Just want to say that the top funds do not charge for these services. Some funds do - they invest and then you pay them back a bunch of money for services.

i.e. if you get $10k from BI or can get $12k from working building widgets, you'd have to decide if that time spent making widgets is worth the $2k extra vs the opportunity cost of leisure or painting or whatever.

Their FAQ seems to have a fair amount of information. Though, it was hard to find from the homepage.

Look at his career and I think it's a different story.

I'd also say that as he got older, his athletic ability declined (injuries and age), so in order to continue getting points, he needed to attempt more shots.