<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>About 20 years ago I joined a large company in California, where non-compete clauses are essentially disallowed.&lt;p&gt;A few years later, I moved to the company&amp;#x27;s offices in Washington State, where non-competes &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; allowed. Before the move I emailed HR and asked if I needed to sign the WA state employment agreement (with that non-compete clause) and they said &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;. I saved that email.&lt;p&gt;Forward a decade, I resigned to work for a competitor.&lt;p&gt;That exit interview was &lt;i&gt;fun&lt;/i&gt;. :-)&lt;p&gt;[I was working on completely different stuff at the new company. I do take NDAs and trade secrets seriously].</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/ftc-cracks-down-companies-impose-harmful-noncompete-restrictions-thousands-workers</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>FTC seems to be down right now, but The Archive has it already:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230104170101&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;press-releases&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;ftc-cracks-down-companies-impose-harmful-noncompete-restrictions-thousands-workers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;20230104170101&amp;#x2F;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.go...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/ftc-cracks-down-companies-impose-harmful-noncompete-restrictions-thousands-workers</url></story>