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The Senate is melting down while Pelosi dithers trying to get f**** airplane emissions standards in the House bill. Iām at a total loss.
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@BeddieKU23 said in 2020 Transfer List:
@BShark said in 2020 Transfer List:
@FarmerJayhawk @BeddieKU23 Looks like a better fit than Aiken to me.
Bigger player, 6'4. Also dealt with injury last season. Some really big games, some really bad games. Not a high volume 3 pt shooter
I like what I see here. We can always use more ball handling. The decline in FG% last year is concerning but he wouldnāt need to take as many guarded shots here.
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@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk Gotta have some stipulation for businesses keeping employees paid, right? Otherwise what is the bill doing? This is such a mess.
From what I gather, a bipartisan group (Rubio, Collins, Cardin, Shaheen) did the small business portion and their loans were only eligible for forgiveness if they maintained payroll. I canāt find the text of the amendment to confirm myself but Iāll look again tomorrow.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Glad they agree with my assessment of the study from France. Wasnāt worth much.
@BShark said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
See what @FarmerJayhawk isnt telling you. You need the house and the senate to pass a stimulus package. Yet itās easier to blame Trump.
Dude I literally just blamed Congress for the lack of stimulus. Plenty to go around.
What is Pelosi doiiing jfc.
Iām livid. The Senate bill isnāt perfect. I wanted at bare minimum $2 trillion and open ended commitments but thereās not time to mess around. Instead we have to wait 2+ days for a deal in the House to come together and then the chambers to agree on something.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Take it with a grain of salt. But this is what Trump is hanging his hat on for now
I saw this the other day, and holy moly is this study absolute garbage. Without getting too into the grimy details, essentially the study had no real randomization so it violates every single assumption we make in running RCT's. It's also seriously underpowered (n=36). The outcome is viral load, not whether the patients actually got better, so we don't really know a whole lot beyond that. In about half the days of the study, control patients weren't even tested for virus. That's really bad. At best the study is useless, at worst leads us down a rabbit hole of pursuing treatments that may be really harmful to non-COVID patients (e.g. folks with Lupus who are treated this way).
And so what would the great @FarmerJayhawk do? Lol Where Is your evidence that study is a Joke? I know how you like to throw around your opinion without Any evidence. Oh I forgot when the great @FarmerJayhawk says itās crap itās crap. Lmao
Do a clinical RCT like we do in any science already. Need bare minimum 100 subjects, all tested positive for COVID. Try the treatment, maintain treatment assignment and compliance. Then track outcomes over the course of treatment. You know, basic science.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
See what @FarmerJayhawk isnt telling you. You need the house and the senate to pass a stimulus package. Yet itās easier to blame Trump.
Dude I literally just blamed Congress for the lack of stimulus. Plenty to go around.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk https://apple.news/AbfvdNF6xQBCVotvOwpqLNQ ā
Think itās bad?
It's not good! It'll take days for the House to draft and vote on its bill. Not time we have at the moment. This may be the cabin fever taking hold, but I like Bernie's plan + the Senate plan for business: $2k/month for everyone as long as the pandemic is here and $1.5 trillion in forgivable loans to small businesses (forgiveness if they maintain payroll). Simple, quick, robust enough to avoid mass layoffs.
@DoubleDD said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
Take it with a grain of salt. But this is what Trump is hanging his hat on for now
I saw this the other day, and holy moly is this study absolute garbage. Without getting too into the grimy details, essentially the study had no real randomization so it violates every single assumption we make in running RCT's. It's also seriously underpowered (n=36). The outcome is viral load, not whether the patients actually got better, so we don't really know a whole lot beyond that. In about half the days of the study, control patients weren't even tested for virus. That's really bad. At best the study is useless, at worst leads us down a rabbit hole of pursuing treatments that may be really harmful to non-COVID patients (e.g. folks with Lupus who are treated this way).
@benshawks08 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
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Both parties still pulling this crap. Just get it done!
It's insane. The Senate almost had a deal then Pelosi comes in all LEEEEEROY JEEEEENKINS and could nuke the whole thing.
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Also, thank you for the kind words @benshawks08!
PS Bill is live tweeting the game
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Tyon Grant Foster commits to KU:
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in Tyon Grant Foster commits to KU:
Mitch has made 10 3-pointers (10/30 = 33.3%) in 1,032 minutes played at Kansas. That's an average of one made 3-pointer every 103 minutes. He's not stretching anything at that rate.
The year you might want to focus on is 2017-18 when Mitch played the 4. The other two years, he was primarily at the 5 because of Doke's injuries. He played away from the basket where he had his highest PER, highest offensive rebound rate, and highest block rate, and also his minutes per game and best shooting season.
Mitch played almost exclusively at the 5 in 17-18, backing up Doke. Only other big on the roster was Silvio and he didnāt play hardly at all until the regular season was about over.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in 2020 Transfer List:
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Tyon Grant Foster commits to KU:
@Marco said in Tyon Grant Foster commits to KU:
@BShark said in Tyon Grant Foster commits to KU:
@Texas-Hawk-10 https://indianhills.prestosports.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/grant-foster_tyon_nqkj ā
Those were his fr state when he was injured and barely played. He was a lot better this year.
I got you @BShark the guy is going to play well for us, contribute bigtime. He's going to get PT, no doubt.
Who does he play over next season? Out of Ochai, Braun, Enaruna, Lightfoot, and Wilson, who does he play ahead of?
Enaruna, Lightfoot, Wilson. I donāt think Mitch plays that much. Heāll be the third string center (probably under 10 MPG)
@Texas-Hawk-10 Dotson is all of $3. The $5 players are Sherron, Devonte, Frank, and T Rob
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in KU Team Picking Thinger:
@FarmerJayhawk said in KU Team Picking Thinger:
Sherron, Dot, Jackson, Marcus, Doke
I think yours would be $16 so gotta swap someone else out, but was my first thought was that group until I added it up and swapped in Chalmers for Dotson.
5 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 14. We good
Sherron, Dot, Jackson, Marcus, Doke
@jayballer73 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
A Friend out of Wichita said at a Walmart there they bought meat , got up to the registar and found for every meat item they purchased - -it had to be rung up on a separate transaction. - -I really don't get the purpose of that.
Another words IF you bought 8 different kinds of meat - -they have to ring up 8 transactions - what the hell is the purpose of that?
To limit panic buying. I was at my store earlier and they had 0 beef in stock. Really irritating. Itās not the best way of doing it. Maybe one of the worst, honestly.
@HighEliteMajor oh hey, good to see you back! Hope you and yours are well!
But man, if you have us losing to LSU... ;)
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in 2021 Recruiting:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2021 Recruiting:
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What's his baseball future like since he says he's playing both at KU? Is he an MLB prospect?
Good question! I don't think he's a MLB guy, especially given we don't know if the draft will go ahead in June. Kardell might be drafted though.
@benshawks08 said in Insider Trading:
@FarmerJayhawk But why would there be incentive for someone to share inside information? Doesnāt the value of that information decrease the more people who know it? Iām confused what you think I got right! Your ceo example just gives me even more reservations because again the person at the top with the most power, influence, and information about a company has an advantage over say a worker who is invested in their own company. If the ceo starts selling doesnāt that devalue the stock for the worker down the chain who has shares? And if the ceo were to share that information widely, who would buy the stock sheās trying to unload?
I am really trying to understand this and am doing some extra reading on the google machine but I still end up thinking insider trading is bad and what these politicians did especially so. Didnāt their actions lead to the increase in market volatility? Again. I am an English major reading articles on twitter and the rest of the internet for my information so I could be off here. (I did win my class stock market game in 5th grade...)
You're good! I'm enjoying the conversation. I think you're asking the right questions, which is in some ways more important that getting the right answers.
My point with the CEO scenario was basically a decision: would you rather the CEO be forthcoming and dump the stock or hang onto it, maintain everything is fine, then have the thing crater all the sudden? The overarching point is more information is good. The idea is nobody would buy the stock since the company is failing, so the market is accomplishing its purpose, which is to value companies accurately and trade those values on an open market where you and I can participate.
Re: the politicians, the volume they sold off probably didn't do much to the market. If they would've done their civic duty and communicated the right amount of risk, the market would've reacted and people could've moved before the circuit breakers went off. I think only Burr is on the hook. Loeffler, Inhofe, DiFi, and Johnson have solid reasons they showed up. The former 3 have their assets in blind trusts and Johnson sold equity in his privately held firm, which would've taken months, if not years, to complete.
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@benshawks08 said in Insider Trading:
@FarmerJayhawk Ok admittedly Iām a bit of a finance dullard but if someone is selling stocks they know are about to drop isnāt the victim whoever buys it? If that buyer is another mutual fund, arenāt all the investors in that fund hurt? If itās just an individual, isnāt that individual now less likely to invest in the future and doesnāt that cause the public to lose faith in the āfairnessā of the overall market as a whole?
And o get that the whole idea of the stock market is trying to invest in stocks you think will do well and sell ones you think might drop. But I guess Iām more afraid of corporate greed than I am of regulation. That seems to be the big crux of it right? I know specifically in this instance with the senators we have examples of the failings of government certainly working to invalidate my own point.
Side note: it is very refreshing to disagree with and question someone and for the dialogue to stay friendly and informative.
Right! This is why we need more information out there, not less. With inside information, the incentive becomes to share more widely. Fund managers that acquire said information become more in demand, and eventually it becomes an industry standard. Or, if a CEO knows his firm is going to tank in a year, she should be able to dump the stock immediately and signal the market the stock is going bad. Instead, she has to hold the stock and wait for it to tank or resign, then sell off if the plan is to calm the market. Any firm that uses insider information against its customers won't last long. For example, Goldman Sachs prohibits all its employees from trading individual stocks to give customers certainty they aren't getting sold a bag of goods. To my knowledge, Japan, India, and Hong Kong either allow insider trading or really don't enforce a ban and have very liquid markets with high volume, so maybe it doesn't? But it's also hard to know the counterfactual about what would happen if they outlawed it with serious penalties. My guess is prices would change over the long run and become less accurate valuations of each stock, but ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
@benshawks08 said in Insider Trading:
I would say the public is the victim much like the environment in my example. Itās a big victim that is difficult to attribute acute damage but the overall damage over time is apparent. Insider trading leads to more inequity as it allows the rich and powerful to mitigate losses and get in early on gains that normal folks canāt. And while there will always be inequity, once it gets to a certain point it becomes unsustainable.
I'm not sure that's the case at all. Information asymmetries are some of the most severe market failures (see Akerlof's Market for Lemons) and criminalizing acting on information reduces the amount of information in the market and distorts the value of securities. If big mutual funds are allowed to trade based on insider information, that's a good thing; your average investor doesn't day trade the market, they do the smart thing and get into mutual funds. If these fund managers can trade off ALL the information available, not just what you can get publicly, investors are better off. If a small investor isn't wise enough to invest in products that actually work, I see no role for the SEC in protecting them. Again, my list of things people shouldn't be allowed to do with their own money is VERY short.
If, for example, the folks at Enron who knew the company was cratering all sold, the market would've sniffed out the fraud a lot sooner. Government is just too slow to keep up most of the time. It would also incentivize firms to push out more news to investors, given the law won't protect their clean or dirty laundry anymore. It will get out eventually and people will act (since it's legal).
@benshawks08 said in Insider Trading:
@FarmerJayhawk For me the example you gave is exactly why I think insider trading is bad. The example with counting shoppers at Walmart could technically be done by anyone with the creativity and drive to do so while getting a text from the waltons is totally based on power and connections. Just in my gut one feels like working for an advantage where the other doesnāt.
Personally, Iām against giving people who already are privileged with so many advantages over normal folks even greater advantages. But thatās my bleeding heart lefty liberal that drove HEM mad. I recognize that the world and life are inherently unfair but that doesnāt mean we canāt create rules to try and make it at least a little more fair.
Itās like golf restricting club makers to build new clubs within a certain tolerance. If they didnāt regulate materials, constructions, and tolerances, the game would be completely different and likely not be able to exist anymore as balls would go further and further requiring courses to get longer and longer in a game that already has an environmental sustainability problem.
Right, thereās just no victim like in the golf example. If anything, the externalities are positive. So Iād rather the SEC go after real crimes and not spin its wheels on these cases that are really hard to prosecute because thereās nobody that can really say they got screwed.
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in 2020 Transfer List:
@FarmerJayhawk said in 2020 Transfer List:
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in 2020 Transfer List:
Why do we want Bryce Aiken again? He's 6'0'' and doesn't play defense. He averages more turnovers than assists and doesn't rebound. Career 34.7% from 3. He's Charlie Moore with slightly better shooting and worse passing and rebounding.
Carton and Bruner seem decent but I don't think either guy moves the needle that much for us.
Because he's an elite scorer and shooter. 40% from 3 his last full season, 87% from the line. Assists would obviously go up because he's surrounded by a lot better players. We need scoring on next year's squad, and he'd be electric.
Ya, I'm not buying that his assists are going to go up just because he's surrounded by better players. Charlie Moore's assist percentage at Cal (27.4) went way down when he came to Kansas (16.0) and then shot back up again when he transferred to DePaul (34.3). His assists might go up, but it's not a given.
He might be an elite shooter, he's not an elite scorer. His career average is 16.8 points with 40.6/34.7/85.3 shooting splits. Nobody who barely eclipses 40% shooting from the field in the ivy league is going to be an elite scorer in the B12. In his best season, he averaged 22.2 points with 43.4/39.8/85.5 shooting splits, and he attempted more than 15 field goals per game. That 39.8% from 3 is the best-case scenario, and he won't get near the volume on Kansas that he did on Harvard.
So a guy whose only value to us would be shooting 3-pointers, might shoot 39.8% on low-volume while not doing much else and being a liability on defense. I think that ends up being a net negative for us. Like why even bother? Let's just play the guys we have now. We have good players. If you want to give Aiken the 0 mpg that we were going to give Jossell next season then that's fine I guess.
Using career numbers is weird for Aiken because heās really only been a full time starter for one year.
Aiken is a much better player than Moore. Last full season he was 8 points better from 3, 5 points better from 2, 6 better from the line. Ends up a 10 point difference in TS% on really high volume. Iāll take that every day. His TO% was less than Moore with much higher usage. All while defenses were keying on him every night. For a team that will struggle some on offense, why not add one of the best scorers out there? Heāll have a lower 2 point% just because he scores a lot off the bounce. Heāll get much better looks at KU.
Iām less worried about defense. Self is an elite defensive coach, and if he can get Isaiah Moss of all people to develop into a decent defender he can get Aiken to defend.
Shooting is like pitching in baseball. You think you have enough, add one more.
@benshawks08 said in Insider Trading:
@FarmerJayhawk $10,000 a table doesnāt seem like ānormal folksā to me. But maybe thatās just me. Iām interested to know more about why you think insider trading should be legal. Specifically in a situation like this where politicians are getting access to possibly classified information (certainly no available to normal folks). You believe they should be able to profit on info like that? Just curious why?
That figure is for the big donors who book the venue (the Capitol Hill Club aināt cheap), and pay for the food and drink. Normal folks just buy tickets and go. Itās a good way for all the Congressional delegationās staffs to connect and reminisce about home.
On insider trading, a couple reasons. First, Iām reflexively against criminalizing activity with no victim. Second, insider trading makes the market more efficient. The stock market is just an aggregation of expectations about a company. If people have solid information about that figure, shouldnāt it be priced in? Third, itās incredibly hard to prosecute because defining inside knowledge is a very fuzzy line. If you went out and really studied a company and got non-public information (say you hired a bunch of people to count how many customers came into a Walmart) thatās not insider trading even though you acquired information not available to the public. But if the Waltonās texted you to sell since their sales were weak (same information) you could not trade based on that. So weāre saying the same, non-public information is sometimes legal, sometimes not. Some studies show that about 1/4 of all M&A deals have some level of insider dealing. Iām fine with that (yay profits!) and nobody really gets screwed, so if we legalize it itās one less victimless crime on the books and probably makes the market run more efficiently.
@benshawks08 itās bad. I think everyone jumped on Sen. Burr (who isnāt particularly wealthy) too quick. He was talking to the NC State Society, which is for normal folks. I went to the KS Society banquet last year (Self spoke, it was great, the bar ran out too quick though). Also, Iām not opposed to insider trading, in fact I think it should be legalized.
Loeffler is out saying the transactions occurred before the briefing and her assets are managed blind, so weāll see if thatās true. Johnson just sold equity in his company, which is privately held so thatās fine. So weāre left with Feinstein, Burr, and Inhofe. Burrās defense was pretty weak, havenāt heard from the others.
BUT! If you know the risk to both blood and treasure and donāt communicate that to the public as a UNITED STATES SENATOR, you ought to really take a look in the mirror and ask yourself if you really have your constituentsā best interests at heart.
So I guess my position is I donāt care about the stocks, but the lack of communication about the real risk is really, really bad.
Towns down to dook (ew) and Ohio St. It'll be OSU.
@KirkIsMyHinrich said in 2020 Transfer List:
Why do we want Bryce Aiken again? He's 6'0'' and doesn't play defense. He averages more turnovers than assists and doesn't rebound. Career 34.7% from 3. He's Charlie Moore with slightly better shooting and worse passing and rebounding.
Carton and Bruner seem decent but I don't think either guy moves the needle that much for us.
Because he's an elite scorer and shooter. 40% from 3 his last full season, 87% from the line. Assists would obviously go up because he's surrounded by a lot better players. We need scoring on next year's squad, and he'd be electric.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk I can't believe they were doing that!
More evidence people need to take this very seriously!
@BShark said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@FarmerJayhawk on no, that's devastating.
Hoping itās just one of those small town rumors. My Grandma wouldāve been exposed. Sheās 80. A remarkably healthy 80, but still 80.
Christ. Iāve been informed a communion assistant at my home church back home tested positive after serving communion Sunday. 28% of the countyās population is over 65.
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@rockchalkwyo said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
@FarmerJayhawk I remember what he tweeted out when he made is return official. Something to the effect of unfinished business. Well heās got more unfinished business from this year than last. But itās a dream. He gains nothing of having another year of college. Go make money while you can.
I canāt disagree. All about how much he values winning in college.
@jayballer73 said in 2020 Transfer List:
we want this guy?
I do for sure. This dude can play. No idea if thereās any interest from either side or not yet.
@jayballer73 said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
@FarmerJayhawk said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
@jayballer73 said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
Ok , everyone in favor of ONE more year from Devon = = PLEASE stand up now lol - -just kidding but would sure be nice lol - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
Not even BSāing, the lack of pre-draft process might push him back. Itās not likely or even probably he comes back, but itās a lot more likely now than a month ago.
Well ,you just never no. Like you I'm just kind of messing but hey couldn't hurt to wish . In reality has he improved his outside shot enough for that transition ? - -Has he taken better care of the ball ? less to's/loose ? - -I remember those were two things the information he was told he needed to work on.
Yeah, doesnāt hurt a thing to imagine! Heās still not a great shooter or passer. I donāt know if he can really do a lot else to improve in college but I think his choice is go cash checks or be an all time great in college. I donāt know for sure what heāll do but itās a harder choice now than a couple weeks ago.
Self on Scott VanPeltās podcast. 11/10 worth a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-need-more-fruit/id1494246435?i=1000468825593 ā
@jayballer73 said in A Fifth Year for Doke?:
Ok , everyone in favor of ONE more year from Devon = = PLEASE stand up now lol - -just kidding but would sure be nice lol - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
Not even BSāing, the lack of pre-draft process might push him back. Itās not likely or even probably he comes back, but itās a lot more likely now than a month ago.
@jayballer73 said in 2020 Transfer List:
Ok so here is the question, seen this tossed around a little. - How seriously does anyone think Hut would consider transferring to KU ?
Didn't pay it a lot of thought , did my typical trolling of other boards checking out different aticles. Of course the best was the UK board. - -A lot of talk. One poster said he probably shouldn't say anything but HE KNEW why Hurt WAS transferring out. - -And of Course got pounded people asking him why?
His answer was it was all in some leaked video/audio something to that effect, Hurt said that he didn't feel he had been treated right. - -Has taken his Duke profile pic down I guess. A lot of UK fans saying that they thought that he would end up transferring to KU. I don't know just a lot of talk about him coming here, how KU was a heavy lean for him in the beginning and such. Someone had mentioned that he had talked to KU staff ( would that be tampering if KU had talked to him ) - again just asking I dunno.
There was some said he would be perfect fit for Gonzaga - - maybe Minnesota , but most talked more either KU or Gonzaga - then some said Gonzaga was loaded at the 4 - -KU would be looking for. a stretch 4 Kind of funny kind of went hand in hand with the way to early 2021 rankings.
Baylor 4th - - KU 8th an ( article saying KU would be looking around for a stretch 4, falls right in line for Hurt ) but he wouldn't be eligible next year right ? - - Texas Tech 15th & West Virginia 17th for 2021.
Soo could this become a serious thing or some people just blowin smoke ? - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
Hurt isnāt coming to KU, and probably not even leaving Dook barring the immediate eligibility rule being in effect for next year.
@Crimsonorblue22 said in 2020 Transfer List:
Somebody said Caleb grille was transferring? I thought isu was his dream school. Would he come back home? WSU. Read it on a WSU site, š¤·āāļø
Yep, he is in the portal.
I've been thinking I'd much rather add Aiken:
Aiken, Thompson, Garrett, Braun/Wilson/Enaruna/TGF, McCormack. That team can shoot the lights out
@approxinfinity said in Differentiating fact from opinion on COVID-19:
@BShark as @bskeet said (I think) this is a game of prisoners dilemma. If the other guy goes feral then you may want to at least have a plan for that.
Itās definitely a classic run. You see someone with a lot of TP, you might think they know something you donāt so you get more, and on it goes.
Donāt think Hurt is going anywhere. But these are strange times and could see it happening. Also, KU isnāt really in on Towns from what I gather
Be smart. Understand the risk. Donāt panic. Weāll come out the other end. Maybe with a cough. Idk
@Crimsonorblue22 said in Games on tv:
We had a game blog going last night, ou 3 ot. @FarmerJayhawk ruined it for us though!š¤£
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