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4 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:I can’t fully answer this without violating the thread rules.  At no point in our collective response to the virus have we treated it like a national security threat.  We are barely treating it like a public health problem.  We are approaching it as an economic irritation and inconvenience, which it is, but the lack of a clear and widely accepted plan of attack against the virus is just going to make the economic pain worse down the road. Â
The countries that saw the virus for what it was and acted quickly no longer have any curve to flatten. Â They have isolated outbreaks they can contain because they prepared. Â We did not do that and we are nowhere close to their level of containment capabilities because of it.
In places like Texas, we never even had a curve to flatten...we locked down very early in the viral process.  The infection and death rate on May 1 is the baseline rate for our definition of essential businesses, as we'd been sheltering in place for 5+ weeks by then.  Most geographies tell a similar story.  If you argue the essential business net was too wide, I'd probably agree with that, but our spike has been damn near non-existent.
I can't really square that with the idea that we didn't take it seriously.
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On 5/3/2020 at 5:19 AM, 52-80 said:
Draconian password restrictions. Holy fuck i thought UT EID was the worst, this one is deloitte:
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In order to ensure the privacy of your data we require your new password meet the following requirements:
- Passwords must be at least 10 characters in length.
- You cannot reuse your last 24 passwords.
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Passwords must contain characters from at least three of the following four classes:
- English uppercase letters: A, B, C...Z
- English lowercase letters: a, b, c...z
- Westernized Arabic numerals: 0, 1, 2...9
- Nonalphanumeric (special characters): !, @, #, %, &, *, etc.
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Passwords should not contain:
- Your username
- Your first and/or last name
- Dictionary words with or without (i) numbers or special characters at the beginning or end, or (ii) letters, numbers, or character exchanges (e.g., Summer2017, ?Happyman, H3llofr!end?)
- Words or numbers connected with you such as family names, pet names, birthdays, addresses, or phone numbers
- Common terminology, acronyms, or names associated with the Deloitte Firms or their clients
- Any sequencing of letters and numbers that follow the order of a keyboard (i.e., keyboard walk patterns such as 1234qwerASDF, 1qazXSW@3edc
I'm not sure this one counts as trivial.  Wait until the next time you have to change your password on Best Buy's website.  It required more complication than any other website I've ever used up to and including all my banks, (USAA, Citi) retirement accounts (Schwab, Fidelity), and post tax investment holdings (ETrade).  So, compared to every dollar to my name, my Best Buy account is (theoretically) more secure even though the rewards balance value varies pretty reliably between 4 and 11 dollars.
I've had two security breaches in the last handful of years across my entire life...my Best Buy account ordered an iPad Pro for shipping to Maryland and I had a credit card number compromised by guess who*?
There is a 0% chance I can actually buy something at Best Buy right now without going through the lost password routine and generating another one that meets all their rules that I similarly won't remember. Â If Circuit City still existed, this would cause me to change my buying behavior entirely.
*I can't actually prove Best Buy was at fault, but the story is a lot better if they were.
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On 5/14/2020 at 11:15 AM, Nivek said:
So the wife tells me I am too hard on our oldest boy. Son does what I tell him to do. Later on, the wife complains that the boy wont listen to her and asks for help.
Next day, wife complains how my methods are jut not right even if they are effective. Today she complains that the boy wont listen to her again and asks for help.Not that I miss her or anything, but it’s my weekend with our wife.
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3 hours ago, Iceman said:
This line...WTF does it mean? Â The NCAA runs roughshod over its members, almost arbitrarily enforcing rules and regulations. They are inconsistent as hell, and additionally spineless in the face of real transgressions.
Who’s been running train on the NCAA?
We just watched Missouri get pounded for cooperating and going about the process the way the NCAA wants you to. That as much as anything prompted KU’s general attitude of “fuck off”.
If this were a court of law, KU would cruise, given what’s in the FBI case. It’s not a court of law, so we’ll see.
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2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
Since Texas is reopeningÂ
What is everyone's comfort level of participation?
Level 1 - Still Grocery/Curbside/Booze Only - w/Mask
Level 2 - Retail/Restaurant- w/Mask
Level 3 - Retail/Restaurant/Gym/Hair - w/Mask
Level 4 - I do what I want bitch - No Mask
I guess I'm a 3.5...I'm not keg standing at a football tailgate but since Austin "reopened" I've had a meal/beer with a buddy (no mask) while generally being far apart and paying more attention to hygiene than I would have in January.
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I'm sure variations of this have happened in the last month for a bunch of you, but Saturday night the Chiefs/Texans playoff game was re-airing and was on the living room TV.  I was in and out with shit on the grill, not paying much attention but wife and son were watching.  I walk by with the Chiefs down 24-0 with the ball.
Me: We're gonna need Patrick Mahomes to be Superman here
Son: Yeah, need some points to get back in the game
Wife: Is this a replay?
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16 hours ago, Bartles said:
Anyone know or educated guess if Masters future bets (made in January) will still be in action when the tourney is played in November?
You will probably be refunded, that's what most places I'm aware of have in their rules, but you'll have to check the specifics of the book you used.
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15 minutes ago, Chet Steadman said:
Austinites-Â is Town Lake Trail now closed as of noon or is it still open?
The order reads like it's open as long as you maintain the 6ft social distancing requirement.
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23 minutes ago, Digdogger said:
The chances of the doctor and nurse laughing at your micropenis during the procedure is nearly 100%
Hey that sanitizer stuff is cold. I’m not normally like this, I swear.
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22 minutes ago, utee94 said:
Laptops and displays all manufactured in China. Dell, HP, Lenovo. Same 4 or 5 ODMs with assembly lines side by side for each brand.
Even if you moved assembly, what's the list of internal components that are manufactured anywhere other than China? Â The processor and...?
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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:
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Deaths are based on actual cases, not confirmed cases. There's no reason that higher testing should lead to higher deaths. What higher testing should do is lower the known death rate as we increase the denominator.
Right, but we’re testing more ANd the virus is spreading, so it’s hard to say how much the contribution is from each. We’re still not an incubation period away from when we got serious about doing something. I don’t think the death rate lowers for another week or two, and it could still accelerate in the meantime as the problem has gotten more widespread.
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3 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:
Obviously the 18,477 cases is not accurate due to lack of testing but am I correct in assuming the 64 serious or critical cases is likely close to accurate?  Surely there aren’t many that are hospitalized in critical condition and not tested.Â
ÂIf so that number seems very positive, even more so when you consider how many cases there really are.Â
Sick people or deaths is probably a lagging indicator, but if the explosion of positives due to higher testing doesn't manifest in a higher body count oner the next week - 10 days, that's probably very positive.
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On 3/11/2020 at 10:25 AM, ztejas said:
I put $400 on Golden State repeating in 2018 in February for something like -170.Â
The Rockets series got interesting.Â
I had them also...think I laid like -200. Jumped in relatively late in the season.
If the NBA doesn’t play 82 games it’s going to cost me money. I have the Jazz over at -105 that was looking dicey, even before all their players were dying...but I also have a Nets under at +150 that is solid. Shortened season would have both refunded.
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47 minutes ago, Bartles said:
The sports sites should start posting blank brackets from past years to see how good everyone's memory is. Obviously no money on it because cheating would be pretty easy. I'd probably still have a ton of red ink, even in the later rounds.
I could probably bat a pretty high percentage on final fours and work backward, and I’d imagine I’d remember a good chunk of the big upsets...but yeah, I’d still miss a ton of games. If they don’t make the 2nd weekend, who remembers 8/9 and 7/10 winners, for example.
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I do. Â I'm currently sweating the shit out of a Utah Jazz over.
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I know Craig a little bit. Professionally, the highest compliment I can pay him is if I’m road tripping and Texas is playing KU in anything...I’ll listen to his call of the game.
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On 2/26/2020 at 7:23 PM, Godzillatron said:
I grew up with Braum’s - as a kid and even into college it was a good, inexpensive burger, fries and shake. Visiting family years later tried it and now it’s outright trash. Not sure if my standards went up or they went downhill, likely a little of both.Â
Braum’s was my first job, and I’d still eat it when I went back after I moved away. It fell off a cliff in the early 00s. I’m assuming they had to slash costs at some point...it’s nowhere near what it was.
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5 hours ago, Js1 said:
Yep.
Win 2/3, finish 19-12 (9-9)
Win one in the Big 12 tournament
20-12 - in
I don’t even think that’s a bubble team, that’s comfortably in.
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After the loss in Austin last night, West Virginia is 2-19 in its last 21 Big 12 road games. Is that bad? It sounds bad.
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I’m in.
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12 hours ago, longhornmatt said:
And to further illustrate how wrong that take was, DeMarre Carroll was the only NBA guy on that Missouri team, so they actually beat a lot of teams that had more talent and better athletes.  That includes beating a good Kansas team with a bunch of pros, OU the year Blake Griffin won national player of the year, Calipari’s Memphis team with Tyreke Evans and the best recruits Worldwide Wes could buy in the Sweet 16, Marquette with Jimmy Butler, Wes Matthews and a couple of other pros in the 2nd round, etc. Â
Jhawk’s memory is too harsh, but the answer is somewhere in the middle. He built a good team the year of the E8 but in other seasons he generally had mediocre teams that struggled against the top half of the conference, including 1-9 against KU (only pros to speak of were freshmen). Mizzou fans were getting really anxious and his seat was getting warm, so he jumped at getting out of there. What Haith did with the leftovers in his first year didn’t help the view of Anderson in hindsight.
On the old board, I was one of the guys saying Shaka shouldn’t run havoc at Texas if the goal is being better than Barnes was, and I used Anderson’s top/bottom conference record splits to explain my reasoning...teams with decent guards had mostly figured it out.
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11 hours ago, Lobo said:
That's what the tomato is for. You probably put ketchup on your pizza, too. Â
Whataburger spicy ketchup >>>>> tomato.
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1 hour ago, Jhawk said:
either either way, our defense is the elite of the elite. Baylor has a great defense, ours is borderline generationally great.Â
I would wait for the season to play out. Â Texas Tech's DE rating improved during their tournament run by more than KU's current edge on Baylor.
There is a lot of basketball left before we start bestowing historical greatness on anybody.
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On 2/16/2020 at 11:56 AM, longhornmatt said:
Was the strength and conditioning lady getting fired by KU and that’s how we hired her?  If not, WTF was she thinking leaving KU for Shaka?
KU switched the structural philosophy, so she went from reporting to Bill Self to reporting to somebody in the medical school.
The football guy left, too.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
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As I read the story, she's 6.