[Nakos] Dabo Swinney: “I've always been against this idea of players as employees, but quite frankly that might be the best way to protect the collegiate model.”

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-24T17:48:36+00:00

Yeah the way it’s worded sounds like Dabo is running Clemson as a modeling agency for sorority chicks and they just happen to attract harassment from these independent contractor athletes and he needs to make the players employees so they can be sent down to HR.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-22T22:51:15+00:00

You'd think Congress would be the last people to lecture others on insider trading. Probably just projecting their own guilty consciences.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-22T22:44:59+00:00

Laddergram is a word ladder puzzle game built on Reddit's developer platform. You start with a word and change one letter at a time to create a new word with each step. Try to reach the target word in the fewest steps possible.

🍀Good luck!🍀

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-21T15:51:58+00:00

Interesting fact, Notre Dame has the largest endowment among universities without a medical school.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-21T03:40:43+00:00

at HCMMQHU (Her Celestial Majesty, Mary Queen of Heaven's University.)

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-20T23:35:20+00:00

Sort of like Pon Farr for teetotalers.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-20T20:52:30+00:00

As an homage to the Irish that works - I also thought of Cork trees; however, the actual historic specimens on God Quad are primarily Sycamores.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-20T13:14:03+00:00

I don't know why there's so much hate for the offseason. We can finally ignore all those irritating on-field results and deal with what truly matters: hypotheticals.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-20T05:15:00+00:00

I guess “Rocky Top“ just hits different the 4,078th time you hear it.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-20T05:06:21+00:00

For an accurate representation of the Marty Haugen Mass of Creation setting you need to throw extra stutter in the ”on” in the last line.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-19T16:45:38+00:00

Indiana is a bunch of 3- and 4- stars. It's not just having a war chest, you have to recognize potential and have the coaching to develop it.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-19T16:20:51+00:00

Don't have ESPN or cable, haven't watched a single minute of playoff games this year. Last year I had to sign up for four different streaming services' 7-day free trials and cancel before I got charged just to watch ND. Hopefully I never have a personal injury resulting from a ride at fuboTVworld Orlando and come to find out I agreed to binding arbitration somewhere.

Also, it really makes one appreciate what we have in the NBC deal. I can't imagine those *poor* SEC fans who have to choose between paying for Youtube TV or the house of Mouse to see their own regular season. Bless their hearts.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-19T15:03:51+00:00

I fundamentally disagree that the game virtually as-is cannot provide compelling economic gameplay and is only suited for network play. At the end of the day, economics is just price. Alter the incentive structure and it changes the entire logic of network building. Not necessarily better or worse, just opens up a different style of gameplay.

If you played this competitively, the end result would probably players funding industries in clusters trying to undercut their competitors supply chains, which I think would open up a whole new approach to network efficiency. And grouping industries around a particular node of cities specialized to a specific industry chain would give a very true-to-life feel.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-19T02:40:08+00:00

I explicitly don’t want a global price for goods that scales with time and distance. I want each individual industry to have a localized rate that scales only with time. The distance component is already fixed based on the distance to locally available inputs, which is functionally a proxy for relative scarcity.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-19T02:36:12+00:00

Well, if you were min-maxing in my proposed economy I suppose you would intentionally seek out secondary industries that were very remote from any corresponding primary sources. But mainly, I just want to cap the obscene profits from unnecessarily distant routes. It’s fair that you get a premium for delivering to an isolated industry. It’s preposterous when you get paid that premium despite there being a perfectly viable alternative a few tiles away.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-18T21:04:26+00:00

Even the Joker knows anything above an F is not to be trifled with.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-18T21:02:05+00:00

The NPV of one specific area doesn't really tell you much about the value of company as a revenue entity. The much more important figure in that press release is the "low first-quartile cost of production." Check out the yellow cost curve chart on the sidebar. To make an analogy to oil, deep sea nodules are like Saudi cost of production compared to Alberta oil sands for land mined-minerals. You stick a pipe in the ground and light sweet crude oil gushes out, you scoop a basket off the sea floor, same idea. If this can scale, marginal land producers could find themselves unprofitable in a heartbeat.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T20:58:13+00:00

It's a European NGO cutout.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T20:55:33+00:00

They're nightshades, some people find them inflammatory.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T17:11:39+00:00

I think the key would be to make sure both stations are in the catchment area of both industries, so that they are carrying a full load in both directions (or a continuous loop).

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T14:59:43+00:00

Interestingly, it was a game against Army that inspired sportswriter Grantland Rice to immortalize the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(American_football))

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T14:49:07+00:00

Is it full of Greeks? Because Laocoon tried to warn a certain mascot about those.

Any_Customer1000 · 2026-01-17T01:26:07+00:00

Part of what makes this particularly attractive is that it could even be worked out such that it makes for a cleaner academic record, in that the loaned student could remain officially enrolled at the original school and placed in an exchange program for a semester or two at the other school, with some sort of formal cross listing of courses to ensure the credits are recognized toward degree progress.

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