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  1. 13 hours ago, Gaffords said:

    1 Right now we don't deserve and much less need to be in the playoffs.

    But for sake of conversation, the playoffs would love a resurgent Texas in the playoffs. That's a lot of eyes added to the playoffs.

    I wonder what would happen if we finished off the rest of the season in dominant fashion.

    Clemson wins its conference.

    tOSU losses Michigan in a close one but wins the rest of the day

    Michigan wins the conference but it's a game they are completely flat.

    ND wins out. 

    Georgia struggles in a couple of wins down the stretch but beats alabamq by 10.

    I would be fun to watch ESPN lobby a second SEC 1 loss Alabama over a lossless ND, 1 loss Michigan, and a dominant Texas that hasn't lost since week one.  

    Honestly Alabama could lose 2 or 3 and still be in at this point. 

  2. 18 minutes ago, Viper said:

    He played a great game today. Still a little inaccurate on his throws but he played smart and good enough to win

    Fuck that "good enough to win". They won despite giving up 45 points. He played a nearly flawless game.

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  3. 18 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    So Sumlin turned them in or did I misread that? Please let that be the case that he was the one. 

    Yes, that's the best part. Transfers need to give some kind of "mitigating circumstances" to get a waiver to play right away. These aren't reported to the NCAA but to the new school. So it was Sumlin that decided to leak this to the press.

     

    Info from here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/08/21/texas-am-faces-ncaa-scrutiny-former-player-eligibility-jimbo-fisher/1052434002/

     

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    It’s quite possible Marchiol’s account might otherwise not have come to light. He did not contact the NCAA. He included the allegations as part of a statement he sent to the compliance office at Arizona, where Sumlin is the coach and Marchiol is enrolled and practicing with the football team, in his request for an NCAA waiver that would allow him to play instead of sitting out the upcoming season.

  4. 1 hour ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    It's being reported as a straight guilty plea with no cooperation language in the plea with 3-5 years in prison..... So let's assume he's not cooperating.  Implications?  Obviously, Cohen's been told he'll be pardoned but what's in it for the Mueller team?  Just a skin on the wall?

     

    Cohen charges aren't being brought by Mueller. They handed off the current set of Cohen crimes to NY because it isn't directly related to the Russia investigation. 

  5. 45 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    The model should be more premium seats and better value for fans.  No one wants to pay money to sit on shitty end zone bleachers like aggy has.  Not in the era where everyone has a flat screen and every game is televised.  

    Agreed. The "biggest stadium" era is over now that the in-home experience is so good. Improving the quality of the fan experience at the game is much more important than stadium size.

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  6. I avoid the target date funds personally but for most people make sense. The .15 ER is 4 times higher than .04 for the all-market Vanguard, but that is misleading since .11 is already such a small amount. What that buys you compared to building the same allocation yourself is the automatic rebalancing. Not everyone wants to set a reminder to rebalance constantly. I do it, but for most people the target date fund lets you set it and forget it for a relatively low price.

  7. 34 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    If you came across 500k of unexpected cash and were pretty convinced a crash was right around the corner, what Vanguard funds would you be eyeing?

    If you are convinced there is a crash coming, cash or VGLT (long-maturity treasuries).

  8. After a couple of years of hype, big companies are losing interest.

     

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-31/blockchain-once-seen-as-a-corporate-cure-all-suffers-slowdown

    Blockchain, Once Seen as a Corporate Cure-All, Suffers Slowdown

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    July 31, 2018, 5:05 AM PDT
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      Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year
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      The pullback could hurt IBM and Microsoft, analyst says
    Corporate America’s love affair with all things blockchain may be cooling.
     
     

    A number of software projects based on the distributed ledger technology will be wound down this year, according to Forrester Research Inc. And some companies pushing ahead with pilot tests are scaling back their ambitions and timelines. In 90 percent of cases, the experiments will never become part of a company’s operations, the firm estimates.

     
     

    Even Nasdaq Inc., a high-profile champion of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, hasn’t moved as quickly as hoped. The exchange operator, which talked in 2016 about deploying blockchain for voting in shareholder meetings and private-company stock issuance, isn’t using the technology in any widely deployed projects yet.

    “The expectation was we’d quickly find use cases,” Magnus Haglind, Nasdaq’s senior vice president and head of product management for market technology, said in an interview. “But introducing new technologies requires broad collaboration with industry participants, and it all takes time.”

    Blockchain is designed to provide a tamper-proof digital ledger -- a groundbreaking means of tracking products, payments and customers. But the much-ballyhooed technology has proven difficult to adopt in real-life situations. As companies try to ramp up projects across their businesses, they’re hitting problems with performance, oversight and operations.

    Hype Versus Reality

    “The disconnect between the hype and the reality is significant -- I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Rajesh Kandaswamy, an analyst at Gartner Inc. “In terms of actual production use, it’s very rare.”

    That could be bad news for makers of blockchain software and services, which include International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp. They’re aiming to make billions on cloud services that help run supply chains, send and receive payments, and interact with customers. Now their projections -- and investors’ expectations -- may need to be tempered.

    “Blockchain is supposed to be an important future revenue stream for IBM, Microsoft and others in equipment sales, cloud services and consulting,” said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates. “If it materializes more slowly, analysts will have to make downward revisions.”

    IBM, which has more than 1,500 employees working on blockchain, said it’s still seeing strong demand. But growing competition could affect how much it can charge clients, according to Jerry Cuomo, vice president of blockchain technologies at IBM.

    Microsoft also remains upbeat. “We see tremendous momentum and progress in the enterprise blockchain marketplace,” the company said in a statement. “We remain committed to developing cutting-edge technology and working side-by-side with industry leaders to ensure business of all types realize this value.”

    So far, IBM and Microsoft have grabbed 51 percent of the more than $700 million market for blockchain products and services, WinterGreen Research Inc. estimated earlier this year.

    For a large swath of companies, blockchain remains an exotic fruit. Only 1 percent of chief information officers said they had any kind of blockchain adoption in their organizations, and only 8 percent said they were in short-term planning or active experimentation with the technology, according to a Gartner study. Nearly 80 percent of CIOs said they had no interest in the technology.

     
     
     
  9. 4 minutes ago, satyanash said:

    The Stampede: Recruiting scoop from Stars at Night...

    "As we’ve been reporting, there will be some twists and turns in this recruitment, but Texas really hit a home run on this visit"

     

     

    Wow that is some fucking insightful shit right there. Please take my money.

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