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[quote]how about the Sheetz in sunnyside with no gas pumps [/quote] Damn kids nowadays don't know how good they have it. When I was there sunnyside was for gettin piss-drunk and little else (stay inside the snow fence!). Good food was a pepproni roll from the old sunnyside superette....

Watching outside reaction to all this has been very interesting. Apparently a lot of people out there thought Dana was actually a damn fine coach, compared to a majority of the WVU fanbase that thought he was pretty damn average, and was much more prone to under-perform the talent on the team tha...

[quote]very seldom a P5 school is as cheap as WVU[/quote] How so? I think we were solidly middle of the road in terms of Dana's salary. Something like #30 on the list of coaching salaries this year....

[link=(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWS5xDEJsq8)]Witcher 3 Blood & Wine - Beauclair Medley[/link]...

Wife is from eastern PA, so I know how awesome a good Wegmans can be. The big one in Lansdale, PA is a great example. Living in SC for awhile now, I thought Publix and/or Wegmans (depending on the location) was the pinnacle. That was until the first Lowes (small chain based out of NC) in the midl...

[quote]It's not a bunch of Wall Street types writing code though, it's a bunch of nerds like Kurzweil. So yeah, they can use tools that silicon valley creates for them but they can't create anything and that's encouraging to me.[/quote] Seriously not trying to be a dick, but you couldn't be more ...

[quote]Too much money is on the line with R&D, and someone will create it behind closed doors regardless, unintentionally or not.[/quote] This scares me - the fact that it will most likely, from things I have read, happen behind closed doors, and the scariest part of all, is that there is decent ...

Yeah, the book I referenced earlier is basically a plea for someone to do something to try to put safeguards in place, and thankfully more and more high profile people like Musk are preaching the dangers of AGI/ASI....

Our Final Invention is a good cautionary book on AI. Talks a bit about Kurzweil and his notoriously optimistic predictions on AGI/ASI and what it will mean for humanity....

I know its been a long arse time since I watched the original Ghost in the Shell, but from what I can remember this looks to be about as true-to-the-source a live action adaptation as you could ever hope for (whitewashing controversy aside). Each trailer I have watched, there has been an iconic scen...