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If you want my real takeaway it's this: at some 4th rate college in the UK with 3000 students and that has only been a university for 6 years, a staffer in the journalism school sent out a memo saying don't use ALL CAPs in your messages to students. The professors and students both laughed off this suggestion. Yet some idiot decided this was still worthy of a new thread. Great job.

What the fuck is a "university lecturer"?

Is everyone in this thread a millionaire yet?

Looking forward to her being grilled on CSPAN for 8 hours over this.

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

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

Not pretty but a win is a win. On to Cincinnati.

Seems like he made the right choice. If he hadn't transferred he would have been put in the game today and lose his last year of eligibility.

Calling my shot: Michael Dickson to win Rookie of the Year.

UCLA suspends 6 players for Week 1, including Soso Jamabo. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2792862-soso-jamabo-among-6-ucla-football-players-suspended-for-opener-vs-cincinnati

"Tell the Navy to go Fuck themselves" seems like a ... not ideal campaign slogan for San Diego county.

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/

95% chance of Hunter win per 538 (before this story of course).

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.

Following up, this is my new favorite comedy. I'm just sad it took me so long to hear about it. More people need to be watching this.

Looking at 2019 recruiting, how is UCLA ranked 84th on 247? Shouldn't Chip Kelly + UCLA be a recruiting powerhouse? They are 10th in the Pac12 somehow.

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.

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.

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

If you follow the statements of Trump's top immigration advisors, the focus was always going to be on legal immigrants. They see an Asian CEO in Silicon Valley as more of a problem than an undocumented Mexican farmworker.

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 By Olga Kharif July 31, 2018, 5:05 AM PDT Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year 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.