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The people that started bitcoin didn't really think it out very well. The thing they wanted the most was for bitcoin not to be tied to some national currency like the dollar, so it couldn't be 'manipulated'. But the problem is that that makes bitcoin a lousy payment vehicle because it's value is too variable - exactly because it is tied to nothing. Everything's price is going to change everyday. They fundamentally misunderstood that the fact the US gov 'manipulates' the value of the dollar so that is as predictable as they can make it (which admittedly is not perfect but still better than anything else) is exactly what makes the dollar desirable as an exchange currency. So don't hold your breath for bitcoin to become a big payment vehicle. We almost had a social meltdown over 5% inflation for a year and a half. Bitcoin bounces around that much in 10 minutes. There are some cryptos - called 'stable coins' where thy they do peg them to the dollar (or something) to get around that, so then they have no point at all. All that said, as long as you can find someone to buy it from you for more than you paid for it.....

He did most of that early though, by later in the season he was pretty much scuffling across the board, though as noted earlier, he did have a good playoff.

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slight oddity: Apparently the same 5 Wings on the ice for both even strength goals, the Marchand goal against and the Raymond goal for. No +/- for anyone on the team tonight.

If Davis Warren could have gotten a couple of years experience under his belt, he might have turned into a decent QB in the end. A lot of his balls are very well thrown, arm strength is OK, just hasn't learned to go downfield. Also makes you wonder whether if they had just put in a playbook more suited to what he could do well initially and stuck with him from the 1st snap if he might already been further along even within this season.

We had an early "Famous Dave's" in Minneapolis that was better than anything currently available in A^2. But I don't know if FD's has maintained their standards as they've grown, most places don't. For years in A^2 a one old dude ran a tiny hole in the wall with one smoker in a little shack that was probably once a 1940's single island gas station at Kerrytown. Strictly carry out. But he eventually decided to retire and no-one wanted the business. They are now building a multistory bldg on the site (queue up the Joni Mitchell...). There have been a couple of BBQ places come and go in town since then but none seem to stick. Maybe BBQ is tough sell today with the Quinoa and Arugula crowd.

WWP=Wounded Warrior Project. Non-profit that nearly went belly up in 2016. Also. always look beyond the AI summary on anything that potentially changes over time. The algorithm is not very good at discerning obsolete data from current data. I've recently had the AI bot toss up a lot of bad Linux system programming info because it was recapitulating obsoleted info. Supposedly you can try using -AI on your searches. I've been experimenting with that.

I've always thought that was an aspect with Cade that was maybe oversold. He doesn't seem to have the lightning kind of quickness to draw an above average rate of fouls. He did improve from his rookie year to last year, but not much change in FTA so far this year.

Who are Columbus's patrons? I'm as egalitarian as the next guy, but the truth is that most of what makes the more 'beautiful' cities beautiful was rich men or industries that had a local interest and could enforce a level of aesthetic vision at critical points in development history. Almost everything nice in Detroit came out of Dodge, Ford, Fisher and other auto industry vanity projects (and now Dan Gilbert). Pittsburgh was Carnegie and USS, LA is the entertainment industry, NYC the financial money, Chicago was the midwest retail, rail/transport, refining and steel hub. Other than being the state capital and OSU, who or what have been Columbus's big drivers?

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I still have close to zero confidence that Malloy can stick. July->August->Sept he was worse each month which often as not says a guy is not adjusting as pitchers work his weaknesses. He did flash a little in the playoffs though.

Yeah - the 'validation by past trial' is always losing logic. You have to keep proving your bona fides every day no matter who you are. What they say on the Street applies pretty generally: Past results not a guarantee of future performance.

I can see the the logic of it. Despite its other shortcomings some of the RW Dmen can make a good pass or contribute to the rush themselves. On the other hand you have Veleno, who probably should just dump in more often instead of trying to carry it in and getting erased as he usually does. More seriously though, I'd guess it's the combination of the popularity of fast forwards and ever bigger big Dmen which probably make dump and chase a better proposition. If you have the speed, better to dump the puck past a Seider (or Edvinsson) and try to win the race to the puck than let a big Dman just cut you off.

Glum is a misread. The games remain the games, institutional loyalty is what it is, but having been tied to the maze and blue for over 50 yrs by family, education, employment, and residence, I am now more amused/bemused in its sports pretensions and foibles than any capacity I retain to be swept up by the institutionally misfit dog and pony show major college athletics has become, so it would probably be fair to say I no longer meet the definition of a "fan." How about loyal non-fan? (and get off my lawn.......)

May as well add a D that can stop some people while you're wish-listing.

The bloom had faded on Wilmer's rose. Can't win 'em all.

I'd put it this way - he's about as good a player as you will find to do what Hinch wants someone to do. If he were very much better he could nail down a starting gig somewhere.

yup - I'm sure that's also the biggest reason they don't want to park Vierling at 3rd. He's not a great defender there but I believe he'd still be an overall plus player there but they want those IF/OF swing guys.

except that paying $10M to a player is exactly why Saban said he left - as mind blowingly ironic as that statement is coming from an Alabama coach.

In the real world, biology and genetics do not draw black and white lines, culture has to create its own world to do that. And then it masquerades its ignorance as divinely received wisdom.

but that is not the most, or even remotely likely outcome. The cabinet chair would be reduced but all the legislation that created the mandates of the Sec of Ed will just be passed to the departments that inherit the old DOE divisions. People don't really understand how the government works. DOE was not created to enable federal involvement in education, that already existed and will continue to exist if DOE is gone. DOE was created to elevate the public profile the bureau that administered federal education spending to cabinet level. Congress created/creates the spending and the mandates and the programs. Where they are administered and whether they have their own cabinet officer does not affect any of that.

do you suppose the wants to learn 1B?

exactly. K rate up some but not that much - contact rate and power seem OK. I suppose something like if the OPS of the hitters behind him last season was higher than in the past that would be some explanation, but you'd want some reasonable explanation before shelling out the $$

How to lie with large numbers 101. The ratio of 100 to 1 million is ten thousand. If you hire a 'few hundred' people to help tens of millions of people complete a task, you are working pretty efficiently.

There was a reason - that we've pretty much forgotten, that for a couple of thousand years we kept making a big deal about all those dead white Greek guys. They were the ones that pretty much put capital 'T' truth out there as something that is important in and of itself. The Western world has been trying to catch back up to their level of understanding ever since.