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  2. Cash out refi? To be clear that would be cashing out equity. I’ve never heard of a retail financial product that monetizes rate differentials.
  3. You can still just pay the fine, but you can't do a drivers safety course on those.
  4. Oh...yeah...if you're looking for someone to posit humanity's perfect record on that front, I sure ain't your guy. No argument here. Just suggesting that there's at least a CHANCE for a moral check with humans driving the bus (some days....those chances are much lower than we would like, but they still qualify as a "chance"). As compared to a machine, which doesn't care. "It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear."
  5. Well, maybe Barry Switzer.
  6. I caught an 84 in a 70 last week. Thanks Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
  7. I need to have this one go away. I’ve got a … volatile history and I would prefer not to impact my insurance rates further.
  8. Yes, because, "intelligence with no humanity or morality" has been something we have wonderfully avoided for the last 7,000 years of civilization.
  9. Someone addressed this before but the general coordination/athleticism of these ostriches is shocking. Pro women’s soccer is clearly slower and less skilled than the men’s game but they at least play the sport capably.
  10. "We're on the fence about whether or not your Surly Horns references are a positive thing."
  11. Fighting traffic tickets is almost always an exercise in futility.
  12. You and my old man would have gotten along great
  13. They must have some special kind of math in Georgia.
  14. With that physique it's hard to believe he was a high school QB and a college safety and not an offensive lineman.
  15. Do you work for Rolling Stone?
  16. And yet the Switch 2 is the fastest selling console in the US in history. They do have the benefit of mostly backwards compatibility with the first one.
  17. The video shows a man capable of enjoying life and happiness. I wouldn't trade that for memories of my career (such as it is). I think I'd celebrate the happiness rather than lament the lost memory. It's not common in my experience. I'm glad for Willis. All we can really hope for is for things to go as well as they can under whatever circumstances await us.
  18. You can't just pay the fine or are you fighting it?
  19. Tex Long

    Getting old sucks

    Had my first bit of cancerous skin cut off when I was - estimating here - 30, which would be 1973. Since then, I've long since lost count, but I'd guess probably 40 or so times. Mostly forehead, top of head, neck... although couple on face, one elbow, one back of hand. Almost all basal cell, few squamous cell. Last two or three semiannual trips to Dermo, been clean. So far, so good.
  20. PSG? Was Donnarumma there?
  21. I remember the original implementation from which this baby toy sprang. Those things gave nunchucks a good run for the money on self inflicted body injuries.
  22. That's true enough. But,if you create goals with no moral guardrails, MANY (most?) people will at least still operate using their internal moral guardrails. Even low-grade morons will do so. AI has no such built-in, pre-existing guardrails. Again, Asimov illustrated the risk 80 years ago with his Three Laws of Robotics having to be imbedded in the hardware of AI. We are not doing so now (and of course, even the Three Laws themselves made for some interesting writing about the conundrums and logic puzzles they could lead to). The fact that we're plunging headfirst into a world of "hey, intelligence with no humanity or morality, create and implement a path forward to solve problem X" is perilous as shit.
  23. I haven't been to Schoepf's in 15+ years. If I decide to get off 35 there, I'll go to Miller's instead. Did I read somewhere that Schoepf's is under new ownership now?
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