all right guys welcome to the WAN Show
it is that time again this week the time that I set aside to spend with you all
of you out there in twitch Twitch
streaming land and oh crap I've got the
tab open on my on my laptop and I'm like 20 seconds behind I can hear myself and
okay I've uh I've managed to make it so that I'm not going crazy anymore which
is nice I am unfortunately without Luke this week
which is which is a real shame but he's basically got some Stuffy's got a deal
with this week and I totally get it so I'm going to hopefully have someone join
me in a short while here and uh you know
it's funny I was planning to have the show go completely smoothly with no
hitches in his absence the way that he claims that it always goes when I'm not
around but I will confess to you now I I
have not yet actually tested uh my
screen share so this is the moment of
truth will I be having H an easy well
not easy I mean you know live streaming is it's very difficult very very
difficult but will I be having a seamless show today or oh look at that
nailed it yes my friend so we've got a lot of great topics for you today
there's been some big news and there's been some little news um researchers
built a 1,000 core processor I'll be talking about that and why it probably
doesn't mean a whole lot to you and won't for for quite some time uh
YouTube's terms of service have been updated uh it's mostly around their
harassment and cyber bullying policy so
that is going to have potentially
huge um ramifications for some YouTubers
out there who are basically making a living out of harassment and cyber bully
uh twitch brings cfaa and trademark claim against bot operators apparently
they are a persistent frustration out is some strong language coming from their
uh senior vice president marketing okay and in much
Huger news that's not necessarily directly purely Tech related but will
absolutely have an effect on technology and how that how that works especially
for Europe an moving forward the UK has
voted to leave the EU it is it is final
but there are some important other notes
about it that we're going to be talking a little bit about later so without
further Ado Let's uh get on Twitch chat
here and see if uh see if wow no one is
complaining that is amazing and here come all the complaints
so let's roll the intro so that I can just you don't even have to watch me
pretending not to read
them square face oh what the heck it's
like four pixels off look at that we're like dancing oh
wait also for some reason we have much darker skin in this one fascinating
tunnel bear fresh books and those are all the same but the
blank ones ah one of these days one of these
days we're going to become a real professional Media company and we're not
going to we're not going to make little mistakes like who am I kidding that's
never happening all right so let's jump right into to our first topic here the
original article here is from n Gadget researchers build a
1,000 core processor that they
call the kilo cor yeah that makes sense so in a
nutshell what a what a kilo core or or a many many core processor would be
optimized for is as you can well imagine
performing many many parallel operations
so that's many many many many small things all at once this is not going to
have pretty much any relevance to you
the person sitting there who wants to play games or um encode video that you
edited or I mean really most of what you
would consider to be a a home use for a computer this is not going to have any
relevance for you um I don't want to say
ever because ever is a really big word but uh for a very very long time because
the limitation of the way that we
currently code software is usually when
it comes to Performance the single-threaded performance of the CPU
or CPUs that are being used to handle the workload it will take an enormous change
in the way that programming is done for something like this hyper low power kilo
cor processor to have much Rel to
someone who wants to even you know General web browsing can consume a lot
of CPU horsepower these days but there
are things that it can be used for sorting through data encryption uh one
of the applicability sort of notes that I have in here is encoding videos but
that is heavily dependent on the codec being used for one thing and for well I
mean how many video streams you're trying to encode so if you could make
a th core processor that is powerful enough for each of the cores to handle
an individual encoding stream holy crap I mean I could see a site like twitch or
like YouTube being all over that kind of
Technology it's like you mean we can have a thousand cores Each of which can
handle an incoming video encoding request from a file upload by itself and
these things can consume uh let's
see7 Watts total I mean the whole thing could run on a AA battery and this is
without the benefit of the latest manufacturing process node so this was
actually built on 32 nanometer technology which is quite archaic at
this point in time though it should be noted that a mere what I don't know four
or five years ago that would have been considered state-ofthe-art so the
processor handles 115 billion instructions per second and
part of what makes it operate so efficiently at the core is that the course transfer data to each other
directly rather than on a shared cache of memory though again it should be
noted that that will only be more efficient for certain workloads where
the cores need to share data directly with each other and where you can build
enough interconnects for the cores to not have to leap over multiple other
cores in order to access another one very very cool so let's just see if
there's uh is there like a picture I can show you or anything like that it looks
like most of the news articles this one's over on bgr.com are just pulling
generic CPU pictures off of Shutterstock
here oo flight attendants and passengers get away with this all the time
fascinating love it thank you for that love those sponsored articles under the
actual article that I'm trying to read all right so the original Source
here is dexerto.com a site that we've
never actually referred to before as far as I'm aware just go ahead and make sure
that's POS so there have been some changes to the
YouTube terms of service that Target harassment now to be clear I don't have
a strong objection to changing terms of
service to prevent cyber bullying um or
harassment and honestly I don't know why we really even call it cyber bullying
bullying is bullying and calling it e bullying it's almost like or cyber
bullying is almost like softening it I mean what's actually you know what would
be considered more adulterous sex or cyber sex you know
what do we consider to be more sport-like
sports or Esports and I don't personally
believe that cyber bullying has the potential to be any less harmful than
any other type of bullying and in fact I think it can make you feel much more
trapped because you can't even escape from it online so anyway YouTube has
made some changes to the terms in
cases where harassment crosses the line
into a malicious attack it can be reported and will be removed so this is
referring specifically to a video that a user would upload so harassment may
include abusive videos comments and messages revealing someone's personal
information which is great I mean doxing
is never okay maliciously recording someone without their consent that's
interesting how do you determine that it is
malicious and I mean what does that do for an awful lot of YouTube videos that
are just like this person fail look how stupid
they are that's uh that's that's interesting
that could have serious ramifications for Content that it will be uploaded and
a lot of content that's already on the site making hurtful and negative
comments and videos about another person deliberately posting content in order to
humiliate at someone unwanted
sexualization which encompasses sexual harassment or sexual bullying in any
form and incitement to harass other
users or creators interesting note is that uh
what's what's that channel called Drama alert yeah or something yeah K yeah
drama alert got a new host within
minutes minutes of this announcement hours of this announcement hi Nick
welcome to the show hello everyone um that's partially due to that and
partially due to the fact that he's just a really you know remember hold on we're
uploading this to YouTube no personal attacks okay no harassment allegedly not
a very nice personed um and a lot of
people have been posting videos essentially attacking him so it's like a
two-fold thing I think with that but yes they did replace their host funny how
funny how swords can have two edges on them it I mean it cuts both ways as the
kids say actually I think that's a somewhat dated expression which kids the
70-year-old kids oh come on I'm not 70 anyway you
can report people that are breaking the new and updated terms of service using
YouTube's reporting tool speaking of which I actually need to deal with a
false flag on one of our stupid videos
uh yeah every um every it's uh basically
it's like just you know no this isn't valid um especially once you're once
you're a uh verified verified YouTuber
it's it's pretty simple to deal with a lot of those types of reports but uh
every once in a while someone will say that our video needs closed
captioning um which that would be nice
yeah yeah but we've looked into it before it's just really expensive for no
there saying it needs it some videos legally must have closed captioning um
if they've been uploaded as broadcast television in the United States then
they they must be closed captioned so for us it's just a matter of going no
actually it doesn't I think also in Canada if it's supposed to be used as
like a public resource yeah then I think it has to have close captioning as well
so there's there's some there's some terms of servy funny stuff that you know
every once in a while happens but uh
this is this is pretty potentially pretty far reaching I mean fortunately
it doesn't have an impact on us but what it does do is it highlights for us and I
mean really for any online content creator once again the uh powerlessness
that we have I mean on the one hand you
think yeah you know internet video you know kind of freedom of expression say
whatever say whatever you want but at the end of the day what people have to
realize is that youtube.com is Google's playground and
if you want to play in Google's Play ground you got to play by Google's rules
and while this again doesn't affect us
because we don't harass or bully people on the lus tech tips Channel because a
well okay there are certain manufacturers that you could argue that I wasn't very nice to their product but
that's not personal that's the product um but these terms are pretty open-ended
yep and that's like my huge concern with it is what are they going to constitute
as bullying are they going to constitute satire as bullying yeah because that's a
massive concern and I think that you know I'm not like a someone who's like
oh this is the beginning of the end for YouTube or anything but it brings up a
lot of concerning questions um and censorship is often the lead to the
death of a platform um so I think that as long as YouTube has the resources in
place to actually handle this properly and they're just going to make sure that
they review everything before they do it unlike their copyright system um they
don't have a great history of doing this uh as long as they handle it properly I
think it's a good thing for the platform because let's be honest lately there has
been a lot of questionable content on the platform um but it has a huge
potential to go bad with that said they are making strides towards improving
these things for example um it used to be that if someone filed a copyright
claim against you your monetization got
pulled even though the video might stay up during the appeal period but your
monetization got pulled so um for example the monetization would go to the
the person who was claiming it right I don't think so in some situations I
think if it was like uh someone who Auto detection of Music yes but depending on
what it was sometimes Monet and I've had monetization just pulled for other
reasons okay during a dispute or an
appeal period for example um this is this is actually a great example it's an
older one now but I'm just going to I'm going to pull up the video because this
was I was so freaking mad about this at
the time obviously it's water under the bridge at this point I love my YouTube
overlords um we love you please don't shut us down yeah please don't please
don't shut down my channel but check this out so this is one of my older
videos this is back from uh 2012 and I
have no idea how loud this is for you guys but this is my unboxing of the
original razor blade so let's go ahead and full screen this
baby yeah check that out it was a what was it a 15 17 something like that yeah
it was a big old thing it had like this weird weird uh this was called the
switchblade interface so razor blade thin and light
gaming notebook featuring and you guys can't read all the way over here because
we're covering it here I'll just move us featuring switchblade unboxing so what
happened with this video was that YouTube actually flagged it
automatically for Dangerous content containing
weapons so I'm going to pull up um I'm
yeah yeah so I'm going to pull up the the analytics for this video and I'll
I'll explain exactly why I was so upset
about it so the way that my compensation structure worked at NCI at the time was
um I had a monthly quota for how many videos I had to make mhm um so I think
it was as high as 45 at one time 45
unboxings was like my quota and I got a flat rate and it was it was very little
it was like $10 per unboxing or something like that like it was it was a
pretty low r or like $15 or something um but remember the production values
weren't what they are now it was like it was one shot me and my wife camera okay
sometimes there were two shots if you made a mistake sometimes there weren't
two shots if I made a mistake so let's be careful with how we say the two shs
ended up in the video back in the day if lonus made a mistake sometimes it was
the person behind the camera waving frantically going stop stop stop and
then the shot would cut and then you'd come back and go okay actually uh yeah I
was wrong it's actually this and they would just leave that in the video so for all you new viewers out there if you
think it's bad now yeah um so let's go let's pull up my
analytics for this video here and uh and I will show you guys why I was so upset
because okay so I got a flat rate for the videos that I made and then what I
also got was a cut of the YouTube
AdSense so that was how we ended up with
ads on the videos so here are the first
um I don't know however many days this is like 20 20 days some of this video it
got pulled immediately because of the word
switchblade and in the first five days
for me in 2012 okay like 70 80,000 views like how
many views is this about 80 to 990,000
views in the first week was unheard of
that was a big deal that was like huge for me um also the cpms I believe were
higher on the platform at the time and and a variety of other reasons why this
was really upsetting but I it just got pulled it just got completely pulled I
got nothing for it and even though like my appeal was like yo this is clearly a
laptop computer and nothing to do with razors nothing to do with blades and
nothing to do with switchblade knives um hey put this back but they
would just turn the monetization off and it's just gone poof so the point of that
really long story was they're improving they're getting better true but
uh it's not perfect yet and uh and I
totally totally hope that they don't screw this up all right speaking of
screwing things up the original article here is from polygon and I'll let uh
I'll let Nick go ahead and introduce this topic here haven't even read this
one you haven't read this one okay this is a Colton topic that's fine we'll jump
into this one that's cool um so last Friday twitch filed a lawsuit against
seven individuals organizations that are in business of selling Bots uh these
Bots are designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts
of twitch streamers uh they are a persistent frustration in the words of
their marketing senior vice president Matthew dietro uh uh and they have
announced that they are now creating a very real problem on the platform so
these Bots have been used to deny deny streamers Partnerships or harass other
broadcasters and twitch employs techn technological solutions that detect and
remove false viewer or Bots currently um so the lawsuit represents a third layer
in their strategy against bots here and
uh yeah among the allegations there are federal trademark infringement unfair
competition cyber squatting fraud breach of contract and torous interference so
they're seeking injunctions against the bot makers including the transfer of the
possession of their domains they're ordering barring payment processors from
uh providing them with service and restitution legal fees and punitive
damages I mean Bots are a huge problem
for pretty much any platform that is
trying to monetize uh views or ad Impressions
because I mean there are a reason that I
don't know if you know this but the the Google AdSense terms of service
basically do not care why bot traffic is
viewing ads on your site so this is like a really scary thing this is not
actually why we lost our Google um our Google AdSense account that had to do
with people posting uh racy images on
the Forum pictures lewd pictures on the Forum that like buried in a thread of
you know four was like a 400 page desktop wallpaper thread and it's like
you know you need to be moding
like yeah yeah it is what it is so that's that's why you don't see Google
ads on the Linus Tech tips for anymore but but this is an interesting
interesting fact is that their terms of service don't give a crap why there are
Bots viewing them or why there are Bots clicking on the ads they are going to go
after you with a shoot first ask questions later approach you'll get cut
off and you will it will be up to you to prove prove that someone else was
maliciously coding Bots and creating
bots to browse and click on your ads so like that because it really it hurts the
value of Google's product for that for their purposes that approach makes sense
because if the burden of proof is on them and they have no way to prove
whether or not it was you that was botting because let's be honest they don't nope then they can never take it
away so as soon as they put the burden of proof on you that allows them to actually take it away in any case that
there's Bing and the reason why Bing is a huge issue is because like Ela said
when you're trying to sell a product like an ad if there are rumors out there
even that you know some of the ads are being boted the advertisers are coming
after you and going why am I paying you for nothing yeah paying for absolutely
nothing I mean with twitch it's more complicated because I mean you can't
just go you know oh twitch streamer X Y
or Z you know uh yo you're banned from
the platform until because I mean malicious actions towards twitch
streamers that have nothing to do with them you know so common you know whether
it's as as silly as you know fake pizza
deliveries or you know getting into a
much more malicious territory things like swatting um this is a huge thing
it's something about that community that
thinks you know trolling the onair personality is somehow appropriate
so for twitch to come in and start going heavy-handed like anyone who has Bots
viewing their stream you know you're you're banned you're cut off your partnership you know your your
subscriber revenue is getting withheld I mean that would be grossly unfair yeah
so the the the issue is so multifaceted
on Twitch too because as a new viewer to
a game you're going to click on probably one of the top broadcast asers within
that game category so if someone's botting they're not only trying to get
more ad Revenue by displaying a higher view count they might even just be trying to get more exposure to get
featured or or whatever it is so yeah it's just such a I mean like
what I'm trying to say is maybe the person who's botting isn't even doing it
maliciously maybe they're trying to help the content creator in their own
Disturbed way which is terrible by the way yes please don't do that that's like
the worst thing yeah yeah click fraud
um view fraud any kind of any kind of fraud is so hard for a content creator
especially a smaller one I mean for
actually this is a great opportunity for me to get into um to get into what
happened with our Amazon Associates account but anytime a content creator
runs a fowl of a much larger entity
whether we're talking about Google Amazon twitch owned by Amazon um
speaking of much larger entities it can be so hard and I
understand the reasons for this I mean you got you got to think about it like a
program like um you know an Amazon Associates or like the Creator
management team at a company like Google which is like you know so there's
alphabet and then there's Google and then there's YouTube and then there's
like sales and marketing and content
acquisition and content development and then there's this tiny little team like
talent management and there are literally millions of creators in some
cases at least hundreds of thousands that much we know for sure so for even
someone like me where I would like to think that I'm fairly significant I
think I'm in the top 500 and change of
YouTubers um let's say top 600 to be
safe even for me getting in touch with a partner manager took until about a year
in change ago just to give you guys some
idea that was how long it took them to reach out to me get this they reached out to me about the Techquickie channel
did I tell you that yeah they weren't actually reaching out about the lonus
tech tips Channel we completely slipped through the cracks let's be fair though
the like the contact email on that on
that channel is extremely messy so like
it's possible no no I would have noticed it's possible I get notifications on my
phone for every email all right all right I would have noticed okay I I was
like wow they talked to me oh be still
my heart so um so especially for a small
content creator anytime so okay anyway it's really small teams managing this
stuff they only have so much bandwidth to manually review things so a lot of
this stuff is done by automated systems and to get someone to review it has to
be done in a priority fashion so so if you have 500 subscribers on YouTube Good
Luck like I lost my channel four and a half years ago took me over a month to
get it back it took YouTube literally five years to ever get in touch with me
about anything um and when uh so getting into the
Amazon thing when I was found to be in
breach of Amazon's Associates terms of service my appeal process was basically
yo can we talk about this on the phone yo no no
um Good Luck elsewhere so it is so it
can be pretty tough now with that said so so leading back into because you know
we consider ourselves to be something of a of a key online
video program when it comes to technology um and I know a few people
who know a few people who know a few people who were willing to stick their
necks out on my behalf um I do actually
have some news to share uh as far as the whole Amazon thing goes um so last week
I did announce that Amazon Associates
our Amazon links were were dead our
account was dead and everything was dead um since that time I have managed to get
on the phone with someone and it looks like we are going to work together to
move forward I've actually got some some notes that uh that I put together about
sort of what what has exactly G on so it
was pointed out to me that anyone is allowed even unless you've been found to
be like clearly maliciously abusing the
program um anyone is allowed to change their business model and to a compliant
business model and reapply um so we've actually been
approved as of yesterday morning for a
new account um and you know here's what
I have to say to you guys this does mean there will be a new ID uh you won't have
seen that anywhere yet because we're working very carefully to go through our
everything and make sure that all of our practices all of our editors know you
know how to call it out correctly um you know all of our writers know how to call
it out correctly so we want to make sure that we are 100% above board because I
do not imagine for a second that I have
a a longer a longer leash than uh you
know about this uh if if we were to ever
violate the the terms of the agreement again um but here's what I'll say if
you're a Creator out there who is using the Amazon Associates program or if
you're looking into the Amazon Associates program CU honestly in spite
of the stress that I've gone through in the last week uh I still highly
recommend participating in the program it is a great great program it's a great
way to make additional Revenue without compromising any integrity that's one of
the things that I love about it is that because Amazon carries everything I can
recommend something on Amazon without there being any conflict yeah because
they carry everything cuz they carry everything I I don't care if you buy the LG G5 or the you know OnePlus 3 I don't
give a crap just just go buy it there buy one yeah buy buy both um so here's
what I'll say carefully study the terms of the agreement carefully clicking on
all of the hyperlinks within the terms of the agreement because there are
subterms of the agreement within the terms of the agreement review them all
uh some of it is kind of vaguely worded
but I understand why they do this and it's to prevent abuse you can't cover
every eventuality I get that so some of the
terminology does seem a little gray but here's the advice that I and this is my
personal advice this is not coming from Amazon I'm making it very clear that I'm
not affiliated with Amazon in any way other than that I am a participant in
the Amazon Associates program that's something that they they say that you're
supposed to say so right there you go it's in the terms of service um the way
to read it is keeping in mind the spirit of the agreement which is that you are
to show your viewers or your audience applicable products on Amazon especially
ones that you like or recommend and you are to provide them with a means to
quickly buy it by clicking on a link that you provide them so if you keep
that in mind while you read through it the rules are much easier to understand
so uh there you have it uh we have we have learned our lesson um we were
extraord arily lucky that we have some friends of some friends who were who
were very generous to put their necks out and vouch for us being good people
who were not maliciously abusing the program so huge shout out to uh to all
the people who quietly helped us with this thank you for that and uh look
forward to seeing more Amazon links under our videos moving
forward yay yay and another uh thing is
one of the people that I was talking to about it said like some of the people
that work in that program are are like people from all walks of life all stages
of life so some of them like don't
necessarily I guess understand the newer
relations and stuff right so like keep
in mind that you have to just live within the terms as they're there and
and then some just in case so yeah lesson learned and uh it was a good one
Speaking of lesson learned I wonder what lessons will be
learned from this are origal Source here
is from the bbc.com
the United Kingdom is no longer part of
the European Union holy actual freaking
crap asterisk it's going to take like at
least two years and the referendum is not
technically legally binding although anyone in the House of Commons that goes
against it is probably committing like career political suicide so it's
probably pretty much almost wow like definitely going to happen unbelievable
so I mean there there's a lot of incredible
stuff here like if you guys were like me you were probably glued to your phone
last night uh just looking at all the
mindblowing stats around this and and all the speculation going on but here's
a few key ones
71.8% of eligible voters attended
I have never I mean I know that it broke
UK records but I mean does that does
that break every record it's like yeah
people cared holy crap and and and
that's with like extreme weather conditions like flooding happening yeah
so if like the weather was all good we probably would have been closer to like
75 or 80% unbelievable unheard of and
and even more crazy is just how divided
the country was so in the end it was a mere 52 to 48% vote it was incredibly
close um England was just a touch higher
uh on the leave side of things Wales was right there in the thick of things at
the average 52 and a half voted leave 47
a half stay uh Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU
which is going to have some very interesting ramifications for the
Scotland uh England relationship over the next little bit uh with Scotland
going as far as to say uh yo um we might
have actually you know done the wrong thing
when we stayed in the UK a little while ago we might be uh refering referendum
again um this is interesting okay no uh
one of my uh one of my one of my favorite keka over there sent me this
Wikipedia article on the Quebec referendum which was actually another uh
quit I guess we could call it when when Quebec voted on whether to leave Canada
and become an independent country for the first time um this was on October
30th 1995 and 93.5 2% of people turned
out to vote oh my goodness um the no option carried by 50.5% so yes there
have been closer and um like
50.5 yeah I had forgotten how close that was so okay all right thanks a prime you
you got me there you got me there wow um I I should I should have studied up my
Canadian history better so what does all
this mean first let's talk a little bit about what being a member of the EU has
meant in in purely technological terms um cheaper airfares um easier uh easier
studying and traveling and living abroad
on the mainland in mainland Europe um
cheaper uh cell phone cheaper cell phone
service so the way that the EU has cracked down on roaming charges within
uh European union members has been a huge benefit to EU countries I have I
have been to the EU um and traveling
over borders extraordinarily easy very
very cool essentially what the EU does the
European Union does is turn the partner countries into a single market
so they're essentially eliminating borders in a lot of ways for goods
Services people money um especially with
the Euro which was implemented what like 10 15 years ago something like that I
can't remember when the Euro got implemented but it wasn't like it was
not it was in my adult lifetime is like
I remember going to Paris and there still being Franks when I graduated high
school uh oh whatever um so it began
after World War II and it was all about economic
cooperation um and has and has become more than that so the overall goal is to
boost trade create jobs lower prices all right so why then did United Kingdom
residents vote to leave so they claimed they were being held back said it would
imposed too many rules on businesses and charged billions of pounds per year in
membership fees for a little return uh wanted Britain to take back full control
of its borders and reduce the number of people coming to work and live in the
country because that's one of the thing as much as many Britain have been
enjoying uh you know going and working or living
over the uh the English Channel there well the same is true of anyone else who
wants to go and live in the UK they also
objected to the move towards what they saw as the creation of a United States
of of Europe so to speak to the membership fees there was like a note
that I read where I think in
201415 you know the fiscal year 20145 um the the UK was charged
something like 8.8 billion pounds in
membership fees and they were able to trace back about 5.5 billion pounds uh
of actual benefit for UK citizens or UK
residents um so that includes stuff like University grants housing grants Etc um
so there's a significant cost to them um
for actually being a part of the union and that cost is essentially absorbed by
some of the other members of the Union that contribute a bit less
so yeah I can I mean empirically I can
kind of understand the argument there but that's looking at that one statistic
in a vacuum and ignoring you know the free trade that it allows the free
travel the free you knowe movement and you know what but there's a lot of
people who don't give a crap about that that's true and for them whatever if
they just want to stay in leads or wherever and and live out their life
there then maybe it's better for them to just have a UK so uh here's a few
interesting interesting tidbits the pound has fallen to its lowest since or
fell I don't know if it stayed there actually I haven't looked recently but it fell to its lowest since
1985 um fun fact um our our
amazon.co.uk uh affiliate uh payouts haven't been cashed in a really long
time I heard yeah so so we actually like
just lost uh like like a really long time I know so we just lost like a lot a
couple ,000 lb or something I think a lot yeah a lot I don't know how much
exactly but it's a lot I don't know how much exactly but it's like it's like not
insignificant so thanks for that brexit
um the treasury forecaster rise between 7 and 1.1% in mortgage borrowing cost so
like that might not seem significant but I think it works out to somewhere around
1,000 pounds a year extra ouch and like
possibly years added to your mortgage so like compound interest dog that's
sucks like yeah where the hell did this
come from emergency pun the EU now has
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random question yes this is I was thinking this when you were doing this
spot if you had had to open a restaurant what kind of a restaurant would you open
I would open a food restaurant and it's
great because uh food restaurant American Dad actually has an episode
where the main character Stan opens what he calls the food restaurant or his food
restaurant and his food restaurant is stupid and I wouldn't open a food
restaurant like that because his served like I I don't know what it's like
chocolate dipped chicken wings or whatever like just just dumb stuff um so
my food restaurant would be kind of like
um kind of like what I think restaurants like Whit spot try to do where they'll
have like a chicken teriyaki dish and they'll have like a fish and chips and
they'll have like a a butter chicken so like a variety restaurant they have a
variety except the problem is that they do everything in sort of this super
non-authentic uh pandering to to you
know Midwestern you know white people
sort of way it's like you're trying butter chicken if you didn't actually want to eat butter chicken yeah exactly
so so my food restaurant would be kind
of like a like an allar All-Star team
yeah so it would it would kind of have it would have meals yeah so I don't
actually know that we would do family style dishes I think it would be individual individual meals and I would
want those individual meals to like like it would I would kind of say okay we're
going to have a larger than normal kitchen we're going to have to kind of
absorb some some operating overhead there um going to have to have a couple
different chefs with different backgrounds yep you'll have to have a little bit of background I think you'll
have to bring in some Consultants whenever you want to introduce a new dish because you're not going to expect
your you know cinjun specialist to all of a sudden be able to whip up an
amazing thae dish but I would say okay
let's absorb some extra operating overhead here and let's be able to put
together kind of set set meals so that
any group people can come and dine and
you know if I'm going out with you know
um like a like a Taiwanese partner or something I can take them there and they
can get some you know some dims or some
you know Singaporean style H and chicken or whatever and I can have a burger and
both of those things will legitimately be somewhat authentic and good that
would be the objective of my restaurant okay what would your restaurant be I I'm
curious now I don't I don't think this is very on topic but that's okay I'm
curious that's okay I mean it's a similar Thing Luke and I actually talked
about this like a while ago and essentially what we came up with was
like there's very like Americanized
dishes in each culture yep so like sweet
and sour pork from Chinese food chicken teriyaki californ chicken California
roll essentially having like Canadian
food just being like the variety of
other cultures of food that we all bring together and call Canadian food because
we have a lot of awesome cultures here with a lot of awesome food yeah that's true especially Vancouver it's great
actually there was another great restaurant idea that I had a while back
um I would want it to be like an icebreaker restaurant I think I'd call
it ice breakers um and the idea around
here they think it was a hockey themed restaurant a hockey themed sports bar
Ice Breakers with a z like we serve only Club Seal you know
um wow so my restaurant actually this
was another really good idea I thought that I had every dish would be really
awkward to eat so like a plate of
spaghetti that is one long noodle right
um and the idea would be that you would go there with a date yeah knowing that
no one is going to be able to perfectly
consume every meal without getting something dribbling down their ARM or on
their chin or whatever there's like an ad uh that somebody pretty much like did
that really except what it was was they were like okay were going to pair these
people up and then the person like they had to feed each other the food so they
found like food that both people liked and they had to feed each other the food
on like a first date so it was like awkward but not essentially fun um
people in the chat are just spamming rx480 I don't know what I'm supposed to
say about it yeah there's rumors yeah which we can't talk about so here's the
thing um actually this is this is a good topic uh why aren't we talking about RX
480 because we do talk about pre-release Hardware rumors very frequently yeah so
we're not talking about it because we know the
answer we can talk about rumors when we
don't know the answer but once we've signed a non-disclosure agreement that
says we are going to independently evaluate the product that is not going
to affect the way that we look at this product but we are not going to say
anything about it until such time as the
broad release of information is allowed to go out as specified by in this case
AMD um so once we've signed that we can't talk about it until it's time to
talk about it so a lot of people have asked you know why is it that every Tech
channel has a video on the GTX 1080 at exactly the same time that is why and
some people wonder why embargos are in place and they're like oh this is you
know it must be because companies are paying people to do a review or
something like that it's so that there's Fair competition in the review Market
it's so that we don't get an advantage from being lus Tech tips and having you
know 2.7 whatever subscribers um or that weed a card first
or that we don't end up with a disadvantage because we're in Canada
California and our card gets you know held by Customs for 3 days or something
like that so by having usually it's anywhere from about 5 on the very low
end which is very frustrating uh anywhere from about 5 to about 12 days
usually that's how long you have with a product so that allows enough time for
something to go wrong like you know for someone's kid to to get sick and need
some chicken soup or whatever um for something to go wrong and for you to
still get your your coverage out at the same time as everyone else apparently I
said 2.7 subscribers thank you twitch chat 2.7 million subscribers I think you
said 2.7 whatever subscribers so you you you didn't remember it was Millions but
you knew it was something so good job I mean I thought it might be billions and
then SP speaking of good job cable
company overcharges might be even worse than you realize the original article
here is from RS Technica man I love those guys look at that flying sheet of
money and the other flying sheet of money and the other flying sheets of
money but this image is not about Freedom this image is about getting
fleeced by your cable provider especially if you're an American not
that I believe for a second that it's any better anywhere else so a senate
report Compares billing and and service records and finds massive overcharges
who the cable companies oh my goodness who would have thought not Charter and
its new subsidiary Time Warner Cable have apparently been overcharging
customers at least 7.2 million per year
for equipment and service the investigation is found so Time Warner
Cable overbuild customers Nationwide and estimated
$639,950 how did they get an estimate that goes right down to the single
dollar anyway between January and April
of this year uh and these problems are
bad because neither company had been issuing automatic refunds or credits to
overcharged customers so during the six and a halfe
time period examined by the committee TWC and Charter made no effort to trace
equipment overages to their origin unless customers specifically asked them
to and did not provide notice or refunds
to customers Comcast has in the past overcharged customers but they do a much
better job at issuing refunds apparently than Time Warner cable Comcast told the
subcommittee that it only had a billing error rate of.
3% Comcast told them so it must be true
Time Warner Cable will begin investigating the overcharges only if
customers bring it to their attention so if you're a Time Warner Cable customer
give them a ring over there and I don't mean this kind of ring I mean the kind
of ring that goes yo dog SU
I mean I have a feeling that you would have to sit on like a hold for at least
two hours to get through to them well yeah there's that yeah you end up
suffering more than the $4 that you probably individually got overcharged
anyway going forward both companies will apparently provide customers with a
notice if they are overcharged that's good I wish we could
overcharge by like 7 million and just
chill with it yeah I also like I'd be
down it actually I wouldn't be down that would be totally wrong but it would be
totally wrong but it would be dope if it wasn't that was like that was the thing
that blew my mind with the uh Charter and Time Warner Cable merger or whatever
MH um where the Time Warner Cable CEO
apparently had it written into his contract that he got some obscene amount
of money should ownership of the company change three months later he was already
putting pen to paper for a change of ownership of the
company he was totally interested in bettering
the company yeah no conflict of interest
there whatsoever whatsoever you know it's funny how many inherent conflicts
of interest exist in the world um I mean
and and this is all like sanctioned stuff like you recently oh are we able
to talk about that sorry your big thing
that happened recently that's been very exciting for you and kind of crazy oh uh
like have you been are you out are you out didn't tell anyone oh okay okay we
don't have to talk about that um so am I out I what that's the
terminology okay um I'm moving I'm not
changing my sexuality or something like that which is what it sounded like you
were saying I'm moving that's the the
big news so when you deal with a realtor
okay whether you're buying whether you're leasing whatever the case may be
when you deal with a realtor ultimately there exists as far as I can
tell an inherent conflict of interest
and to be clear I have met some very good Realtors very good people but there
is an inherent conflict of interest because the seller or the leaser not the
leasy or um sell e whatever I don't care
you guys get the point so the seller or whoever's leasing the property pays the
realtor fees they they pay that sort of
on top of the or or out of the amount
not on top of sorry out of the negotiated rate that the buyer ends up
agreeing to pay so the way it works is
that let's say hypothetically a house is uh
$440,000 for example let's say hypothetically so what would happen is a
typical real estate agent uh commission is I think somewhere in the one
to quite a bit more than one I think as high as like three or 4% yeah can't
remember exact I it depends on market conditions like in Vancouver right now I
think it's somewhere in the 1 to four whereas you know if housing prices were
closer to1 or $200,000 it would probably be a little higher um cl to 5 to eight
so basically what happens is the seller is responsible for paying that to their
realtor that they have entered a a
covenant with or whatever the case may be to represent them so that Realtor
ultimately like there's this code of ethics or whatever which is great for
people who actually abide by those types of codes but I've certainly met those
who don't uh there's this code of ethics that says that they have to represent
you and blah blah blah but the fact of the matter is they get paid no matter
what and they get paid by the seller they get paid more if the rate is higher
so okay if they're representing the seller then that's great but there's a
realtor potentially and often in in many cases for the buyer as well who also
gets paid by the seller who also gets
paid a proportion of the amount that the property sells for and who the selling
realtor has to split the commission with
if there's a buying realtor present so this creates all kinds of conflicts like
choosing a buyer which you're not supposed to do based on them being
self-represented in which case the the Sellers realtor takes the entire
commission versus another buyer who has a realtor who is sticking up for their
best interest there's dual agency which is like the the most broken thing ever
where one realtor represents both par becoming super illegal in like most of
Canada because it's incredibly messed up not here yet that's for sure um where
basically there's these negotiating there's these negotiators on both side
both of whom it is in their best interest to flip through properties as
quickly as possible at as high a rate as possible and I to believe as a buyer
especially that this is somehow in my best
interest good luck fortunately my realtor is actually the dad of someone
that my wife went to high school with and like their families know each other
and so there's there's some trust there um and he is he has not he has not
steered me wrong um which is which is good but anyway uh let's move on to this
fantastic article over here on polygon Counter Strike player files suit against
valve over illegal gambling surrounding
CS go very interesting I mean it was a
matter of time yeah before skins and
match I mean you've already got match fixing so you're as close to real
gambling as you can be before being declared real gambling that only adults
can participate in you know age of majority and all that stuff that goes
along with normal gambling sites and gambling participation and gambling
establishments there was also something that happened recently
um I'm trying to find
it something along the lines of one of the betting sites had a deal with a
streamer where they would tell him like when he was going to win so that he
would bet higher on those and then like freak out when he won um essentially
just the scummiest thing I've ever heard of so creating more glamour around the
practice of of betting um so Connecticut
resident Michael John McLoud has filed a suit currently seeking class action
status and I don't actually see that being a difficult thing to achieve here
against valve and three skin gambling and selling sites and the complaint
alleges that valve knowingly allowed and has been complicit in creating
sustaining and facilitating a market where players and third party tra third
uh and excuse me where players and third parties trade weapon skins it continues
that they knowingly allowed supported Andor sponsored illegal gambling by
allowing millions of Americans to link their individual steam accounts to third
party websites that's that's interesting
because I mean you know there's plenty of legitimate uses for valves login
credentials being valid on a thirdparty website like oh say for example I don't
know Linus Tech tips Forum where you can use your steam credentials and all the
encryption and account management is done over on valve side we never even
get it we just get a hash or a token or whatever and you can use your your valve
two-factor authentication all that good stuff um so there's plenty of legit uses
for that but I can see where kind of coming from here uh in the Esports
gambling economy this is further further allegations Skins are like casino chips
that have monetary value outside the game itself because of the ability to
convert them directly into cash it also alleges that some third party CSCO
websites don't require age verification which allows miners to bet as
well Bloomberg has reported that CSCO skin gambling is currently a$2 billion
industry so in some valve owns the
league sells the casino chips and
receives a piece of the casino's income stream through foreign websites in order
to maintain the charade that valve is not promoting and profiting from online gambling
wow uh oh I mean I'm not a legal
expert we should get like that should be added to our lower third actually just
permanently not a lawyer next to next to my Twitter handle it should just say not
not a lawyer at Linus Tech Linus Tech yeah um but I got to say that sounds
from just a sort of like a rational reasonable person who's been observing
kind of this weird environment over the last few years that sounds not quite
bulletproof but pretty
compelling yeah it's not great everyone everyone
twitch shats like sell your skins sell your skins now get out I
honestly since it's the Tulip bubble of the 1800s or whatever since this whole
thing began I mean I was always kind of
questioning it because it's like huh don't you normally have to get like
licenses to gamble and stuff yeah it's
like pretty tightly regulated in Canada you have to spend a certain amount of
your income on anti-gambling advertisement like this is a really
tightly regulated industry B deal like a
huge deal and you know they've they've gotten away with it for so long just
because I think people don't really understand like the people who would
come after them don't really understand what's happening so this might shed a
bit more light on that um because yeah
it is not a good thing in my opinion I mean it's just it's so
accessible cuz it's literally using something that you get as a drop
potentially in a game that you've paid for and you're playing to get you tied
into into it mhm and whether valve agrees or not that they are quote
unquote facilitating it I mean I think there's an argument to be made there
again not a lawyer don't understand law
very well at all M but I think that there is an argument to be made against
valve in this situation so we'll be interesting to see what
happens that's for sure to be clear no means no you said you didn't know the
law very well I'm just making sure you're at least aware of
that I'm just I'm going to have all sorts of stuff on my Twitter
about yeah I'm just I'm not oh yeah you
can you can find him at Nick LMG or something like that is that is that
right or is there an underscore in there no that sounds Nick LMG all right so
Microsoft will use steam to sell Windows games not just its own store wow a move
for Microsoft that actually looks like they actually care very nice original
article here is from RS Technica um and
a couple of their latest um blah blah blah blah blah blah a couple of their
latest games so Forza 6 Apex and Killer Instinct have done well on the store but
Quantum break did not so maybe they're
kind of going oh gee maybe we don't have to be the only store that sells our
games maybe we could give someone else a cut although valve does take a very significant cut um but Phil Spencer said
Microsoft will ship games on Steam again and noted that while some game releases
have done well in Windows store um Quantum break wasn't our best PC release
and Gears of War Ultimate Edition was okay
awesome I'm excited because I almost
play nothing that isn't on Steam it is
so convenient it's like it's prohibitive to not have your game on Steam
nowadays it just feels like steam is the way to game I mean I guess there's
blizzard Battle.net or whatever but still you can still
technically launch those games through Steam you just have to yeah actually set
it up yeah um we've got a a couple other sort of Rapid FY topics here uh SanDisk
made an iPhone case with built-in storage up to 128 gigs of extra storage
all it does is bulk up the phone surprisingly little actually not that
badly and instead of investing in additional $300 or whatever it is to get
an iPhone with that amount of storage you can just have a bumper case on it
that has a little bit more bulk at the bottom by the lightning connector so
that there can be a power pass through and so that it can have a data interface to that storage and
off you go the one problem with this is that you will be limited to USB 2 speeds
but uh it requ requires a companion app
um it can only store certain things it backs up your camera roll uh does
password protect your photos and any files that have that that are on there
so that's nice uh and you can also get a battery pack on it for an extra 40 bucks
yeah 1,00 milliamp battery pack I mean that will turn your iPhone 6s into like
a bit of a brick but uh 32 gigs of storage is 60 bucks uh 64 gigs is 100
and 128 is 130 see this by the way apple
is how pricing for additional flash storage should
work yeah g yeah it's kind of messed up um
yeah I guess there's I don't know there's like some iPhone 7 rumors or
something I'm not really sure how much I care about that uh there were a couple
other things that I thought were pretty pretty interesting where did they go uh
you know what now let's call that it for the day thanks for watching W show and a
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byebye thanks for watching why is everyone talking about g2a what they do
I mean I'm sure like they're the same as always and
people are posting videos about it like they have forever and nothing's going to
happen like forever unless there's been
a change which I don't think there has
right yeah okay people wanted us to talk
about iPhone 7 okay um fine
um iPhone 7 rumors expected to be a revision of iPhone 6 wow is that really
a note on this okay forget it it doesn't have a
headphone jack that's the rumor
surprise