Thanks!

Yup. At least I don't remember it as my parents do.

I remember my parents cracking up about this; I didn't get it at the time, but it's pretty damn funny.

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Ummm, after thoughtlessly upvoting your comment, I followed the link you posted and it's definitely not the place they are at. According to the YT description on the video, it's an abandoned mine shaft somewhere in the western US, not in West Virginia.

They still don't seem like my kind of people, but not as bad as your comment makes them out to be.

Ha! I often ask FizzBuzz in interviews if I have a hint that someone's blowing smoke. Often, they'll whiteboard a solution which is a giveaway that they've rehearsed this one (going straight to mod 15 instead of mucking around with 3 and 5 first), but that's no big deal. Where people usually utterly fail is when I ask them how they'd test it.

The vast majority of people end up saying that they'd run it and examine the output or something stupid; relatively few go straight to a unit test, and of those that do, even fewer immediately see that they have to refactor the simple solution to separate application from logic from presentation.

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I had no idea Michaela also refereed 8-Ball. Somehow I'd assumed that a Snooker referee (even a former one) would be above such things. :-)

As always, everything went to hell in the 70s.

By the higher spending brought about by the other workers who were making a relative fortune? It's really not that hard to understand that the economy was helped a lot more by the workers having money to spend than it would've been by Ford being a multiple or two richer than he became.

I love the pointless rationalization by the guy near the end. So husbands should love their wives unconditionally? Presumably because their wives are silent and submissive, right? How does the former cancel out the latter?

Now if we had a government program to get him some work, I'd vote for it.

Lots of helicopters have that capability. I have some book about helicopters from the 80s that has a publicity shot of a pair Sea Stallions or some such refueling in flight.

For the time being, I don't think that's a concern; with all of the incredible progress being shown in using neural networks to replicate (and yes, improve on) human skills, I'm not aware of any real advances in any field related to giving AI any sort of actual will.

What's more concerning to me is how this sort of technology will be put to use to categorize and control people. I'm not talking about shadowy cabals, or even evil corporations--I'm talking about the unintentional consequences of being able to accurately reduce people to a set of metrics and predictable behaviors, and how that may push culture to a bland algorithmic mush rather than the chaotic but vibrant human mess it's always been. Time will tell, I guess.

You said you hate that cops are untrained and that the cop acted improperly. The rest of your comment is suggesting that his actions were possibly justified. What exactly is your point?