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I have nothing against the athletes competing or the competition

If I was into one of those sports and was good enough I would want to go compete against the best in the world, even if it meant representing another nation if I didn't qualify in my nation

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Damned right. I'd sacrifice a whole lot to compete - assuming I was into a sport and good enough.

Then again, I've competed on the global stage - to some extent. My business did international work and after we developed the software we sold my business sold software across the globe. Well, we sold hardware that had our software installed on it. We would then support that hardware with various support levels.

No, no... No, it was not open source software. It was very much proprietary! It would only run on hardware signed by us and with a special USB dongle that provided a rotating cryptographic key. If you didn't have those things, the software didn't run. Suffice to say, there was no 'crack' for our software.

I guess that counts on competing at the international level? Kinda?

Well... Hmm... I guess it's also competition when you work towards your doctorate? You're competing the whole time, even for just a place in the program. Being admitted into the MIT grad program is something few people can say, even fewer for mathematics. Then, you've gotta publish. Then, you have to create math that's new and beneficial - it must be both novel and useful to get your doctorate. To get your doctorate, at least in a field like math, you should be the very best person in your field - globally.

So...

Kinda?

LOL I was definitely not ski jumping or figure skating!

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I have some wifi heat map software that will not run without the dongle and I lost the dongle LoL

It has got to be more and more difficult as time passes to create new math that is beneficial

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Well, there's always new stuff out there. The field is constantly changing, even though most people think of math as being pretty static. Most people only understand arithmetic - at best. But, we just had a new telescope get launched into space - maybe you can do the math to predict how well it stays in orbit, proposing something different than what the physicists predicted at the start. There's all sorts of stuff like that.

I'm watching the biathlon. That's where they cross-country ski around a course while stopping to shoot targets along the way.

I'd like to try that. Some of the people who compete are pretty old (by Olympics standards).

I'd fucking love to try the luge and bobsled events.