Recent content by melt

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    ***Official 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Thread***

    Yea, the Illini are a puzzling team. They have some weird losses on their schedule, like losing @ Penn State, and Maryland at home. They also barely got by OSU in the Big 10 tournament. They were down to Nebraska and Wisconsin by double digits in both of their other tournament games before...
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    Saturday tournament schedule

    Do you have Max (formerly HBO Max)? They have the non-CBS games on their app. Alternatively, the NCAA March Madness site let's you watch for free for about 2 hours if you don't have any regular cable subscriptions. If you do have cable, then you can log in with your provider info and stream...
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    *** Official Pittsburgh vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    Absolutely no one is doing anything right.
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    *** Official Pittsburgh vs IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    hope this is just nerves and we can start making a shot
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    Quick look at Pitt

    Pitt is who I wanted us to play, I don't like it when we play good defensive teams like MSU. Clones will lock them up on the defensive side, and Pitt's D won't be able to slow us down enough. Clones win by 8.
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    Why not re-rank today, 1/24

    I think Kansas has it easier by a little. Texas's last four games are ISU, @Baylor, @TCU, and KU. Depending on how healthy TCU is, I think there's 1-2 losses in that group for Texas. Especially since it's 4 tough games in a row. KU gets two easy games at home with WVU and TTech before that...
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    *** Official #11 IOWA STATE vs West Virginia Game(Day) Thread ***

    I have a bad feeling about this game. All the things WVU does well are the things ISU struggles with. They play good D and get the to FT line a lot. Lipsey has to stay composed and not turn it over a billion times. If Clones can get a lot of turnovers and some transition baskets, then I...
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    49ers - Brock Purdy - Still and Always #1

    Sucks that Breece Hall was injured because we might've seen both Purdy and Hall in the running for ORotY.
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    Can we talk about Osun Osunniyi?

    Osunniyi was the piece we were missing last year. The offense just flows so much better when he's out there. When Jones subs in we struggle so much more on offense. Love this guy.
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    *** Official #7 Texas (SAMSUBA) vs #12 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    Yea Rice is #10 and he really seemed to have some issues with ball control. Seemed to dribble out really wide and away from his body, lost control a couple of times. It was weird.
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    *** Official #14 IOWA STATE vs #2 Kansas Game(Day) Thread ***

    Hopefully that gets grill out of his funk.
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    Roth IRA vs 529

    Huh didn’t know that. Good to know.
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    Roth IRA vs 529

    An early withdraw from a Roth incurs a 10% penalty plus taxes anyway. If you think you’re going to need this money when they’re 18, you’d be throwing a ton of money away paying those penalties. I’d say either do a 529, or if you’re really worried about that, then just put it in a regular...
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    Cryptocurrency

    You don't directly. An intermediary converts it to dollars before it's sent to the utility company. Nearly everything I have ever seen where you pay in bitcoin, or whatever crypto you want, is not actually accepting crypto, it's getting exchanged into dollars first. When Tesla was actually...
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    Cryptocurrency

    This reads more like people are creating more wallets and spreading their BTC around. Article mentions that the wallets holding lots of BTC has declined. Number of wallets is fairly meaningless because anyone can make a wallet for free. I can go out and make 1,000 wallets if I really wanted...