It is at many HFT firms, including mine. You will be paid your base salary for some number of months to not work at a competitor, even if you don't have a signed offer for a competitor and just want to sit around
> It is at many HFT firms, including mine. You will be paid your base salary for some number of months to not work at a competitor, even if you don't have a signed offer for a competitor and just want to sit around
That's called "garden leave" and it's completely different from non-compete agreements as discussed by this bill.
A garden leave is a form of compensated non-compete. The entire point is that you’re paying a former employee to not compete (in this case to literally not work).
Garden leave is just a (usually?) legal (or at least contractual) requirement associated with non-compete agreements in some jurisdictions. Unsurprisingly, it was originally a British term, although it meant something different.
> "Garden leave" wasn't a common term when I was in HFT in NYC. It was just called a "non-compete" (possibly confusingly).
The terms are used somewhat interchangeably in colloquial use, because (at least as of now) the distinction isn't meaningful for most people. The point is that garden leave isn't targeted by this bill.
The first bill outlaws all non-competes and garden leave would fall under it. The most they could do is offer it as a form of severance where you get to sit on your butt for 6 months conditionally.
The second bill would allow for garden leave aka compensated non-competes. It just codifies the "don't try any non-compensated/good faith aspect".
I don't think that is true, or at least I have not seen that anywhere. My understanding is this bill removes any kind of non-competes. It was already basically unenforcible to have an unpaid non-compete in New York (through common law)
I can't speak for UT, but for Quake, other aspects of the game, such as movement and item/map control have a very big, if not bigger impact on performance than aim. Players with good movement and map control can often outperform players who have godlike aim.
Higher TTK ensures that players with good movement and map control can have the stack and weapons required to out-live and out-damage better aimers in a fight.
