In this case, Fanatic is the long-form version of the word "fan" used in the expression "sports fan".
> Fanatics, Inc. is an American sports platform that consists of several businesses, including licensed sports merchandise, trading cards and collectibles, sports betting, special events, and live commerce.
I thought this, but random updates and changes for my apps in dev mode got too annoying; switching to full root has made my apps stable and turned off the prompts to upgrade the OS. It was worth it.
Do they even expose much cross users? One of my sports apps has a Family Plan, and my "family" is three other players who organized ourselves on FB. We split the cost evenly and it saves us like 50% each. I don't even know their names.
Sure, if nothing is done. The trust fund redeeming its bonds is little different than the congress appropriating money for Social Security benefits; both come out of the current revenue of the USG. When the trust fund no longer has any bonds to redeem, there's nothing stopping congress from continuing to transfer money into Social Security to pay benefits at existing levels. They'll just have to vote on it rather than it happening automatically.
My rule of thumb is that every not-heavy product has about $7 of shipping costs baked in somewhere. For cheap items, there isn't enough markup to cover those costs, so they are usually higher priced than at retail. If it's $50 or more, there usually is, and the amazon price will be competitive or better than retail.
For heavy things the shipping ding is bigger, but they also usually cost at least $30. No one bothers to sell $5 items like 50lb bags of basic sand on amazon.
Generally yes, if you want to use a Customer Relationship Management system like Salesforce. Customer names, contact information, and info about what they bought from you is table stakes data for CRM is it not?
Yep. Nor does it prevent states from passing laws putting individual liability on guards who so flagrantly violate inmate rights. It's just not something that the Feds can do.
> $10000+ for a ticket that originally costs around 2k should be illegal. Most of these tickets will go unsold I'm sure.
I'm not so sure. See this article in the Washington Post where multiple season pass holders they talked to sold their seats for $5k+ quite quickly: "His tickets fetched more than $8,000 each within the first few hours of going up."
Alma and Rocky if you want fully free or have a lot of machines. RHEL if you are okay with registering with them; they give ten machines free access to their updates for each Registered account in their system.
RHEL is definitely the most stable major distribution. Alma and Rocky are essentially downstream clones of RHEL.
I know this is a common argument, but I would love to see some hard data about expenditures on administrative staff in Universities. Every time I look for this, I find that the expenditures on administrators has mostly gone up in the Health Care sectors of Higher Education. Instructional, student affairs and research administrators are up modestly.
Do you have any sources or citations to support the broad claims about increases in administrators or broad surplus revenue? As non-profits, if tuition is going up and all other fund sources are flat, then expenditures have to go up as well, there is no owner's profit to absorb excess revenue.
The best data I has is from the Education department, see the last part of this chart (Expenditure per full-time-equivalent student in constant 2022-23 dollars):
One-time taxes are dumb. The organizers of this tax should have the confidence of their arguments to make them permanent, or they shouldn't do it at all.
This remains a matter of active debate, and there is no law that requires or enshrines it. It's a legitimate opinion to hold, that a company should maximize shareholder returns, but it is not in any way a requirement to do so.
GLP-1s are the gateway drug to this whole world. It's not hard to rationalize that they are safe, and approved, but too expensive. If your insurance stops paying, or will never authorize it in the first place, going gray market may be the only choice to stay on a drug that works for you.
Of course, once you are placing an order, it's only one more add-to-cart click to add something completely untested to your order.
Probably just the iPad, unless you are not at all price sensitive. $350 ($299 refurbished) vs $600 is a big uplift; you can almost buy two iPads for the price of an iPad Air. For just PDF viewing, any Apple CPU is performant enough.
> Just pointing out that nonprofits do not have to balance revenues and expenditures at all. This is not a mere technical detail. Profit cannot inure to owners with nonprofits as it can with for-profits, but this does not prevent the organization from building up a surplus over time, nor does it prevent them from paying employees very handsomely. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to have almost one hundred universities with endowments over a billion dollars.
I'm not an expert in non-profit accounting, but my general understanding is that it's not generally allowed to divert non-profit revenue into reserves at scale. The billions of endowments all come from non-budgeted and one-time gifts to the university.
> That's fair, but I suppose there's more to it than that. Any number of datasets point to the cost of admin rising far above the cost of faculty or maintenance; and a lot of them actually show on an inflation-adjusted basis that schools are spending less now on instruction than they did a decade or two ago. So perhaps there's enough truth to the idea that you're getting substantially less education per dollar than you used to.
All the above statements are true, but they all rely on the same error. Money spent by a university on research administration, or healthcare administration has zero relevance to the amount of money spent on Instructional administration. In order to make the argument that the cost of admin has gone up to the detriment of instruction, you'd want to exclude the administrative staff dedicated to non-instructional tasks.
As an example, if UCLA opens a new hospital in SoCal (not near any current UCLA undergraduates), they must staff that hospital with thousands of medical professionals. Sure, you can say the doctors are faculty, but you are still hiring thousands of nurses, technicians, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc. That makes the administrative cost of the University go up, but the Instruction is exactly the same.
Similarly, if UCLA gets a $100 million dollar grant for graduate-level AI research, they're going to have to hire quite a few staff members to administer that grant, to pay the researchers and grad students who are funded by that grant, to purchase and manage the computers full of GPUs, to build the building for the people and the datacenters for the servers, and to file the mountains of audit paperwork that the federal government requires in order to get the money and show that there wasn't any Waste, Fraud, or Abuse. All of the staff (AKA administrators) that make that happen now show up as an administrative cost of the University, and end up in a naive calculation of "increases in administration at UCLA", despite the fact that all of their salaries are paid (legitimately) by the $100 million grant that UCLA received, and instruction is completely unaffected by this.
This is why I like the expense data from the Education Department. It at least tries to break out the expenses related to non-Instructional things (Research, Hospitals, etc.) There may be an interesting discussion to be had as to whether Universities are spending more on Instruction or Student Services per-head in real dollars, but I pretty much never see intelligent discussion rooted in those numbers; instead it's the common, "Harvard has 4x the administrative staff today that it did in 1980. Outrageous!"
I wouldn't think so. Hospitals do some teaching and research, but they also administer huge amounts of prescription drugs, physician salaries (both teaching and non-teaching), durable medical equipment, supplies, marketing, home health services, etc.
> Fanatics, Inc. is an American sports platform that consists of several businesses, including licensed sports merchandise, trading cards and collectibles, sports betting, special events, and live commerce.
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