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Everything posted by Nice Guy Eddie
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The vehicle is telling me it's the right rear tire that has a fault. No idea if that is right or not. Ford is selling the sensor for ~$80 each but I assume that cheaper alternatives are out there. Sucks that I just bought new tires a few months ago and didn't even think of this at the time. This is the first time in my 55 years that I've had a TPMS error. most of me vehicles in those years didn't have TPMS.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Nice Guy Eddie replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
OpenAI could easily start to price their non-base ChatGPT models at a per transaction (token) level. that's how it works with agents. You can set it up to auto-refill your balance, along with a monthly maximums. Heavy ChatGPT users will complain. However if their ChatGPT usage is creating a work product, tough that their workforce will cost them more than $200 per month. not to mention that OpenAI can keep going back to the private markets to raise more funds. I imagine that we won't see OpenAI come close to an IPO until they're out of their heavy growth phases. The IPO era is over but that's a separate topic. -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Nice Guy Eddie replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
Say that someone is sitting on a large (or small) capital gain on crypto. If Sen. Lummis' language is kept, it would exempt <$200 transactions from reporting the sale as a capital gain. Now if you have $2m in capital gains, that's a long haul to not report the capital gains across many many transactions but it legally eliminates the tax owed. Of course if someone thinks that BTC is going to 10x, you don't want to spend $15 on a burger that will eventually effectively cost you $150. -
Thanks. I will check out the tool, or see if AutoZones offer its usage for free. I'm a fan of seeing the tire pressure on my dashboard so it would eventually bother me not seeing it especially on road trips.
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Ford Explorer 2017. One of the wheels is throwing a warning that the tire pressure monitoring system has failed on one wheel. It's definitely not working according to the dashboard. Ford Quicklane quoted me $250 over the phone. I'm completely unfamiliar with these systems. Is $250 reasonable?
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Nice Guy Eddie replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Been screwing around more and more with AI agents. Basic training classes that mainly demonstrate the potential. I know we mostly hear hype regarding them but they're the real deal. As soon as more major software packages and email systems embrace them, corp America is going be transformed. Given that I've never known a VP or CFO to not want to lower headcount/cost, they will quickly grab onto tech that will increase productivity per worker. If someone's main role is working with transactions and/or dealing with customers via email/chat, start learning a new skill ASAP. -
Was a bill really required to allow Texans to spend gold and silver? I'm assuming this doesn't require companies, stores, vendors, whatever accept gold. Hell, some places don't even accept cash these days. Greg Abbott has morphed from entertaining the ideas of the fringes to mainly focusing on the fringes. Crazy how he's surpassed Rick Perry.
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Nice Guy Eddie replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
I believe that we're due for another BTC pop. Perhaps closer to 125. caveat: if there are negative, external events, then it could easily drop as well. -
Maybe I was blinded because I was a kid, but those game seemed to mean more then. At a minimum they meant more to me. Can’t recall when I last watched or even checked out an all star game box score. If I had a ticket, I would go for the first few innings.
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This Land Is Mine! public lands (NPS, BLM, NFS, etc.)
Nice Guy Eddie replied to mchookem's topic in Cloak Room
Guarantee that if we sold off trillions of dollars of national land, whatever President/party that is in power would want to immediately give it back as a tax refund and not really touch the debt. I recall when GWB inherited a roughly balanced/maybe slight surplus, he said that Americans knew how to spend their money better than DC so let’s run up a deficit with tax breaks and a foreign war. and with the tax refund, the gop would give 95% of it to wealthy folks. Trickle down and all. -
This Land Is Mine! public lands (NPS, BLM, NFS, etc.)
Nice Guy Eddie replied to mchookem's topic in Cloak Room
I’m pessimistic about the growing movement to sell federal land to states if not private industry. Like @Kyrie Eleison stated many regions don’t have much federal land so this is a non issue for them. Second this is an idea that may only need to succeed once then the land would be privatized forever. ive seen a few billionaires (wanna be) types argue that the US is sitting on trillions of dollars of land value that could be sold to pay off the national debt. Maybe there’s partial accuracy in that, but pawning your assets is a big step in eventual downfalls of organizations. -
‘79 series between the pirates and orioles stands out in mind as when I started to appreciate baseball.
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It's Houston 2-3pm. Hearing the thunderstorms rolling in. Time to get to wherever you need to be for the next few hours.
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I'm always so annoyed that when the state GOP officials want to provide tax relief, they only focus on property tax. Which further strangles local govt and schools, forcing them to be more dependent on the growing state of Texas govt. And Texas does it best to refuse federal funds. If Abbott or Patrick want to lower taxes, they should only have the right to change the state sales tax. If they want to lower tax revenue, they should start with state tax revenue first. I don't even see why or how they should have control of local taxes. Believe the sales tax rate has been 6.25% (state level) since 1990. If it was those nasty Dems that took it up to 6.25%, why hasn't the GOP brought it down. Funny how there's never a peep out of them to touch their funds.
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Since wealth inequality is showing zero signs of decreasing, we are going to turn to more and more policies like rent stabilizations. Poor people will continue to make up more and more of the voting public. Wealthy people should recognize that they will eventually have one of two outcomes: either the govt will take some of your wealth via taxation, or the mob will take all of your wealth, maybe your life, when they show up on your doorstep with guns. Of course there is a growing movement to only allow voting by those with a positive income tax payment. Surprisingly even some poor MAGA are supportive of losing their personal right to vote away. So odd.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
Nice Guy Eddie replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Weekday afternoon games are the best. I get that some fans can't make them, but it also opens up games to fans that nights are tough, especially with school aged kids in the summer. They're also bad ass in taking off work with friends and enjoying a beer at 1pm on a Wed. Finally I like the idea of giving the ball players a slight break in the flight schedule so every flight isn't red eye flight. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Nice Guy Eddie replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
I'm more and more impressed with AI every week. However, it's still be unable to perform some data analytic tasks that I've thrown at it. Perhaps I'm using the wrong models, or need to enhance the prompts. For example, I struggle to get AI to recognize that one data set has Eddie Smith and another is Eddie M. Smith, and to consider them the same. And that the first name field may have the middle initial in it as well. (Note in my limited data, I don't have currently have anyone with duplicate first and last names.) I also find that data hallucinations are less likely now. I've run through some training that demonstrates that you can apply steps to validate an answer perhaps even using a different model to validate. If Gemini tells you that Napoleon ruled New Zealand, you can ask OpenAI to validate the answer. If found to false or questionable, either model can be re-asked the question and validated again. The downside of answer validation is time/cost. -
I've never believed in the wisdom of rent control. I get it that it helps renters but it also creates an artificial marketplace that harms others as well. People can't afford a new place because a landlord needs higher rents to cover the fact that another tenant has been paying $200/mo for the last 40 years. Of course, my understanding is that new NYC rent control apartments stopped in the 70s, and those tenants at the time were grandfathered in. Very few of them remain. Their stories are crazy so they often get repeated and believed to be widespread. Rent stabilization is the current system that makes more sense. However it still creates an artificial marketplace that eventually gets out of line when its controlled by politicians who answer to said tenants. Who wants to vote for a politicians who indirectly raised your rent. Stabilization can also lead to subpar living conditions as the apt owner has less incentive to improve the building. Since they have limited availability to sign new tenants, they will do the bare minimum required perhaps even waiting to be forced to do so by the authorities.
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Yesterday I stumbled onto the new Peter Thiel interview on the NY Times. watch/listen Not that I didn't think this before, but he's even weirder than I thought. He has this core belief that the world became stagnant after Los Alamos '45 or perhaps the Moon landing in '69. Even to a point that the internet and now AI wasn't as big of a deal. He's also comes across as very fixated that we haven't discovered more (any?) cures or treatment for dementia. Either he had just finished reading an article about that so it was top of mind, or I have to wonder if he has a personal fear that is his near-term future. I will psychoanalyze him further in that some in his position of wealth, power and arrogance can get very upset when they recognize their mortality. I'm ~2 years younger than Thiel, and it's a sobering fact in your mid-50s that your highly productive years are behind you and/or quickly ending. You have to accept that the world now belongs to younger people. Life isn't over but you won't be around to experience 50 years from now. I hadn't realized that he hasn't made any political donations since the '22 cycle due to disillusionment of MAGA.
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Usually not worth using cards on transactions that effectively force you to cover the vendors credit card fees. Sign up bonuses strategies excluded, in my experience these types of transactions usually reward you 1-2% max. I have a BoA card that I can get 1.75% on random categories but that doesn’t cover the credit card fee on my prop tax bill. Spending 2.2% to earn 1.75% is bad math. credit card companies got wise to some of the creative strategies used 20+ years ago. I remember when they allowed cash advances with a capped fee and an extended 0% interest. In the early 2000s, I withdrew $40k for something like a $500 fee. No interest for ~2 years. I stuck it in a 18 month CD earning about 4%. I just had to muscle up the monthly payments. The good old days of using my credit score to earn passive income.
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The Trump administration is holding up the paramount sale until they settle with Trump. Perfectly normal behavior.
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Trump now has personal control over many business decisions by US Steel as part of the agreement to let Nippon Steel purchase them. Perfectly normal for a president to take over a private company. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-golden-share-us-steel-nippon-merger.html The new business charter does state that power is retained by the federal govt after Trump leave office but presumably there’s nothing stopping Trump from transferring that power to himself or his family. Or he can decide to reward himself whatever distribution he wants. It reminds me when Obama gave himself power over many businesses in his 8 years. Oh wait, that never happened.
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Since most of these “agents” are corrections officers, they’re following their training. If you’re extracting a disruptive prisoner from a cell, you overwhelm them with force.
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I’ve read that most of these new ICE workers are current corrections officers who have been deputized. ICE likes to present them as long time ICE agents, police, ATF, etc. but in reality most of those individuals would want nothing to do with this work. Instead they recruiting men who work in jails and prison and annually earn less than $50K. they have no real training in law enforcement and frankly couldn’t get a job in law enforcement so they’re basically mercenary bounty hunters at this point.
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