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Any decent barber ship I needed to be at before it opened (usually 7 AM). Otherwise, the wait was just too long. I'll never go back.

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You gotta find ones that do appointments. Yeah I’d never sit and wait if that’s the only option.

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The Ridge wallet

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I have one of the carbon fiber versions, I like it a lot. But I recommend trying one of the knock offs on Amazon first. Way cheaper and they might be just as good.

All of her facial proportions are kinda off.

Well, the Veterans Administration (as an example) serves:

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anyone who was in the military at any point

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So I would assume most people aren’t raising their hands here. :lol:

As someone who never served, I’m not sure I’m in a position to split hairs here even if I felt inclined to (and I don’t, service is service to me).

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You can save the beer toast, I don't drink with people like you. Whatever you think Charlie said, he didn't. You even bringing it up shows the lie about liberal empathy.

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I mostly agree with you about the myth of liberal empathy but you brought up Kirk, not him. :lol:

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The 50 year 'rates' are also going to be higher than 15 or 30 year rates.

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Significantly higher. And nobody seems to be mentioning this.

30 year fixed has about double the rate of 15 year fixed. No sane bank actually wants an asset with a 50 year maturity, so the rate will likely be double the 30 year rate.

Imagine agreeing to pay 12% on a mortgage of, what 400K on average…for 50 years.

It’s a garbage idea for a product and I have no idea why we (collectively, not just the OT) are even discussing this.

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A contractor charges you thousands upfront for agreed upon renovations to your house. Then shows up only a few times and does the shittiest job possible... then sues you for the remaining balance.

I'd think you'd be in the right to negotiate less.

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If your contract said “just come do some ambiguously-defined contractor stuff and if I need to terminate you I’ll pay you anyway”, I’d say you probably don’t have much to stand on.

And understand, I’m not saying LSU shouldn’t contest this and try to pay as little as possible, I’m saying Kelly isn’t exactly wrong for asking for what was in his contract.

Tim Cook’s final act at Apple really will be to gay it up as much as possible and charge people an arm and a leg for it.

Seriously, this is Southpark parody ridiculous level of gay.

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Comparing fully realized AGI (as described by its proponents which could be bullshite to increase their stock price) to cameras and phones is like comparing nuclear bombs to machine guns and cruise missiles.

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I’ll take it a step further.

It would be like people in the 1850s using alchemy to create nuclear bombs.

The AI “experts” don’t actually know how these things will function…let alone what the applications are and will be. And “what will be” is coming super fast.

The “it will be fine crowd” might be right, and I hope they are. But they’re definitely not thinking this through and that’s troubling.

When cameras were created, the people building and designing could explain exactly how they function.

When phone were created, the people building and designing could explain exactly how they function.

There are a lot of people building LLMs that have no idea how they do what they do. And we’re not even talking about generalized AI at this point.

The concern is warranted.