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  1. Call it a hunch but UNLVs starting QB (who hails from New York) has a NIL deal thats slightly different from one brokered by the college messageboard admin offering $300/semester and free margaritas from the vegas equivalent of El Arroyo. Im guessing the deal is a tad larger and it comes with implicit expectation of playing for the team, and not given out of charity. Just guessing tho
  2. NIL. It's a woozie it's a wayzee.
  3. all this means is the rules are bullshit. why do we feign this 'student-athlete' pretense against what we already know has been the reality since the beginning of time: elite high school athletes in popular sports go to college to play sports. they pick their college to play sports. colleges recruit them to play sports. they will derive their career earnings from sports. hell, most of them wouldnt qualify for admittance to their colleges if not for sports. for all intents and purposes, these are athletes engaging in an (extremely) commercial enterprise, so they might as well be considered professional, and paid commensurately. thats why i support NIL. the fact that they're not "paid to play" is on-paper de jure vs de facto distinction. if bijan robinson decided he didn't want to risk injury playing in college, so he join the roster but never willingly step on the field, would any donors give him NIL? lets not make pretend here the true nature of the payments. if the UNLV dude didn't get the money that was promised to him, walking away seems appropriate.
  4. narrator: he did not, in fact, hope for the continued success of the program. he rather didn't care about the program at all.
  5. I've complained about this atleast once before but I'll complain again: most software implementation of the mute function is stupid. The icon should say mic, not mute. It'll be colored red when mic is on, and gray/muted when mic is off. That's the color association everyone knows when an A/V equipment is on (or "hot"). Or render some skeuomorphic toggle switch in the On/Off states. ** On the left state, the mic is muted but the icon is red. On the right state, the mic is live but the icon is white, and it still has the crossed line that implies it's off. The design is signaling conflicting things
  6. lol with the vagueness. if you're going to make an accusation, and there are no legal repercussion against it, just fucking lay out the charges. # pls respect my decision
  7. Its actually fine in January, weather is very mild so not particularly cold nor wetter than the rest of the year. Only thing you really lose out on is daylight. Med coastal Spain is always a good escape for weather…but Paris wont be bad. We actually decided to get married during a late Dec trip to Paris and proposed a few months later in Spanish islands (Canaries)
  8. Seems inappropriate to ask private employers to function as an individuals babysitter for a literally lifelong duration. I agree that some people fail to save. If that manifests as a societal problem, the responsibility for a minimal blanket belongs to government. (They launched SSN almost a century ago). FYI, in the nations most idealized as western socialist utopias, employee sponsored pensions are also DC; and the officially endorsed retirement architecture is “three pillar” (just like Americas ‘three-legged stool’): state, employer, and private savings.
  9. I didnt invent the verbiage - “covered” “participate” “participated” etc. Those were lifted from the benefits survey publications for those years. When they switched to the modern compensation survey, the questions were more specific allowing for detailed answers like ‘percentage of workers with *frozen* DBs transitioned to alternate form of pension’. the long term trends in the answer tells me with high confidence that in 1995, the percentage of employees with actively offered DB was 50%, not ‘fuhgetaboutit’
  10. I dont see color or race/racism either.
  11. Tell her the math is easy, you just multiply both numbers by 2 so she needs 4/6 at the end.
  12. Most of merch revenue goes to the team. Liberty Media owns the licensing around "F1" and race names and other properties and gets some licensing money from deals with merchants, but RBR can still sell "ORACLE Red Bull Racing Honda Tag Heuer" t-shirts all day long. Also, the merch king should always be Ferrari, no matter who drives for them and who drives for RBR.
  13. the real problem here is units of cups and fractions instead of using metric and decimals.
  14. 52-80

    Getting old sucks

    Wonder why they spend 8 years in school to perform that when they can do it for free behind the bush in Pease Park
  15. My guess is all the benefits will be retained , at least for a while , because Apple would want to maintain those perks and JPM's business can support it. GS' consumer profitability problem is they have twice the credit loss rate of JPM (unknown how much come from Apple card vs General Motors cards), and very high overhead and operating expenses relative to the revenue due to their smaller scale. JPM can run the card portfolio more efficiently, and probably better at credit assessment and collections.
  16. Opposite, GS is moving away from retail banking. They partnered on this Apple Card thing shortly after launching Marcus. I think theyre deciding the juice is not worth the squeeze.
  17. I think you meant to post this
  18. Prove it.
  19. 3% on Apple goods and select affiliated stores (including Exxon, CVS, and Uber) 2% on everything when you use Apple Pay (meaning both tap-terminals in person and also online shopping!) 1% on everything else Instant feedback in the app on what youve earned which is kinda neat too
  20. The real reason he got shot was for wearing those shoes.
  21. Whatever philosophies and processes Apple uses to ensure good user experience, its amazing. Decided to get the Apple Card on a whim. No annual fees so why not. Application was done through the iPhone Wallet app. Because Apple already has my email and address, all I did was enter birthdate, ssn, and income, and the card was instantly approved — and added to the app to use for Apple Pay. Start to finish it took all of 2 minutes from when I got the idea to when I had a new payment acct on the phone ready to go. When physical card got home, activation of it only needs an NFC tap of the phone…or instead just hit confirm in the app itself. No calling a number and talking to human or robot. No forex fees. Did a few foreign purchases and charge converted to 1% atop of market rate. With a 2% cashback reward, thats a net 1% earned — better than most native cards outside the US. The whole app to manage the account is just so much more pleasant than JPMC/AMEX/etc too… they really nailed the design.
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