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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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13,682 words · ~68 min read
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hello my friends yes it has not been a
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very good day today nope no I have I have not had a
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particularly good day we late um cuz
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we're late yes that's a factor oh yeah
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the other one but also the bit where Amazon terminated our affiliate account
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yeah that that also had something to do with it so uh uh you know what I'm not
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going to spend a lot of time talking about that on the show today I'll just do a quick thing right now basically we
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violated the terms of service there were a couple of things that I didn't realize
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were I interpreted incorrectly and in a
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nutshell Amazon laid the smackdown on
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that and has permanently banned our account well not permanently but they
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have banned our account until such time as all of the videos that reference
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Amazon and um creating a bookmark to
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their site with that part I don't say that so none of my videos have to go
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away sure well whatever yeah all of the videos victory that contain that
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reference that sounds fine then must be removed it's probably okay from the
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channel no big deal and uh then we can
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reapply I mean we still get to keep scrapyard Wars right not they will
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reinstate our account then we can reapply for an account I was like so
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basically no then all right so we're all
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already kind of scratching our heads going well gee I mean how much were we
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really making on Amazon Affiliates uh maybe we could call out something else
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at the end of the video or maybe we can I don't know maybe Amazon could talk to
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us and we could figure out some kind of a solution where hey how about we fix it moving forward and we you know get a new
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tracker link or something like that so stuff but uh nope nope nope that's dead
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so what's the funniest the greatest irony here actually that that I
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personally really appreciated I love irony I was telling this to Brandon the
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other day I was climbing a ladder um in the middle of our late night shoot irony
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ladder um no no no there uh no aluminum
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actually but very nice I like it good thinking thank you um so I was climbing
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a ladder and I was putting up the last sheet of paper on the two and 1 half
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story Windows with this ladder propped
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actually at just above the Midway point
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on something and actually not against anything on the top and I was like well
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if I'm going to die this is going to be the one and I would like for the last
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piece of paper to be the one that I die on because I appreciate irony I I I do I
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love irony if I'm going to die I'd like for it to be in an ironic way um so
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anyway if my Amazon affiliate account is going to be terminated I do appreciate
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that it's in an ironic way and uh already recorded coming out very soon is
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a video called how does lonus Media Group make money honest answers episode
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two uh much of which has been rendered completely
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invalid by the recent uh ruling of
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Amazon Associates Specialist Team who
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has decided that we no longer make money using Amazon Associates junko it's not
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pre-recorded so um there you have it I
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at least appreciate the irony of the situation you know if it all goes to
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hell we can just start Twitch streaming all the time Twitch streaming
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I've heard it's pretty good money we'll just create like a loose
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affiliation of twitch streamers no we we should just get like a actually we have
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the internet connection for it I actually don't really mind to this idea
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uh we should just get every piece of Hardware that like anyone releases and
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just hold it and then for the whole stream uh top donator just gets to pick
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what we build next and we just build the
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computer show them the computer benchmark whatever games they want to
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Benchmark and then the next top donator gets to pick our next build we build it
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we Benchmark it for them they can see what it looks like we can cable manage
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it all that sounds horrifyingly profitable we can cable manage it all we
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can Benchmark all the games that they would want to say they can go like okay
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I've got this build idea it's got all this Hardware in it from all these
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people with this case all that kind of stuff we can give them their thermals we can give them their power draw we can
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give them the performance in the games that they want to play and basically by
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donating like 50 bucks they would effectively get an unparalleled
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on the rig probably Savings in the proc
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it's actually kind of brilliant but Matthew TG brings up an excellent point
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you'd have to have a proper schedule to do Twitch streaming and actually show up
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on time rip yeah but like I mean my stream works
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every time so maybe if I'm managing I
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did replace the power supply in the Stream PC that's actually what I was
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doing before we started today because that the system hard locked
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uh right before we were supposed to go live today and I was just like you know
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what I have replaced every component in this system except the power supply
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which I assumed was fine cuz it's a be quiet! dark Power Pro 850 watt 80 plus
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titanium like it's a completely Overkill
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and actually excellent power supply and so I threw in some uh test bench one
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that is known good and the system hasn't been behaving strangely no it AB it
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notably feels better than I'm I'm not guaranteeing it good yet cuz I I think
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it's other specific things but I people are like I would watch the [ __ ] out of
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that yeah like in the twitch chat it slowly started to become like kind of a
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better idea as I went
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on oh no all right well at any rate uh
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we have some great topics for you guys today on the actual W show not the W
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show where we just build computers um Microsoft makes a bold move into he
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helping server the marijuana business ah
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yes ah yes yes it's a uh you know uh I
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was trying to make a they're stirring the
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pot I guess that's like causing controversy
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oh anyway but how does that relate just shut
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up OverWatch takes the number one say they're lighting the fire yeah yeah yeah
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yeah they're lighting the fire under their competitors who are not as
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Progressive they're uh I'm sure we could come up with other things they're uh
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they're um um n that's just straight up
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a reference that's that doesn't refer to anything else all right OverWatch takes
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the number one spot from League of Legends in Korean PC internet cafes AKA
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what are they called bangs PC bongs bongs I think it's bong I could totally
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be wrong Ms korean's not great either if it helps at
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allim um
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I don't know what that is I I believe it means thank you sir oh that's cool uh
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MSI and ASUS allegedly send VGA or video
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card review samples with higher clock speeds than retail with like custom have
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a stuff um well that's cool no wait uh
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now English yeah thank you huh there it
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is um and smaller like processor chips
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May rely on vacuum tube technology which
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is like the last thing I would have expected to be on the end of that
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sentence but sure Microsoft is weeding out the competition oh that's good um
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that one's good what else we got no no one's going to really really oh almost
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no one was after it there's just a whole lot of like # Vape Nation to which all I
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have to say is
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this
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who that's an unexpected sponsor we haven't talked about Discord in a while
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did Nick make this this splash page I
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don't know cuz this is what they're supposed to look
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like last time we talked about Discord it didn't go over very well people
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didn't like it so so Nick made the sponsor page is that
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is that what that has to do with I have no idea no no no I was just because you
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said we haven't talked about them in a while yeah last time we talked them about was made a cribs video that was
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your cribs video I think everyone thought it was a vape Nation video cuz
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apparently everyone's too young to remember cribs really so like all the I
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made one offand reference by spelling it
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the wrong way with my hands for Vape Nation as a joke everyone thought that
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was like supposed the whole point of the video really it was cribs it was not
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Vape Nation you know what the funny thing about that is is I'm too old to
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really know what Vape nation is whereas
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like cribs cribs is like yeah yeah I
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well I remember not watching it cuz it was super CRI yeah but like you knew
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what it was but everyone knew what it was everyone knew it's it's like it's
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like Gravedigger you know like even if
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you have no idea what a monster truck is the odds that you've
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encountered Gravedigger as some point is actually pretty good or like you know
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Michael Jordan it's like even if you don't care about basketball at all you
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know who that guy is it's like MTV Cribs if you don't care about bad reality
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television programming you probably still know what it is or Cam angles and
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there's so many references to cribs I think I literally said crib for one um
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the way like the way the way Burl filmed it was like awesome with like the crazy
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camera angles like the the pulling the camera in and out and like all this
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crazy stuff um he made sure that I said like the lingo that was set on there
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commonly like we got this installed B Legit watched cribs like is no he had he
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had filmed his friend doing a spoof of it or something ah so his friend had
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done a bunch of research and stuff so we were effectively doing a spoof of a spoof yeah like 10 years late yep and
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people didn't get the reference well there you go I guess it also wasn't
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great and like a lot of the comments were like Burl should have hosted this and you are correct but then no one
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would have been able to film it properly right so we weren't really sure how to
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as much as burkel should have hosted it Luke shouldn't have filmed it yeah yes
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yes very much true all right so this is some big news original article here is
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from let's go with the Wall Street Journal article are you posting this in
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the chat sure y I don't think we did that last week it is what it is
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Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for
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26.2 bill million so how this affects
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one of our sponsors today um who was
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actually acquired by LinkedIn this year or late last year late last year I think
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yeah linda.com um probably very little
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according to Microsoft so they've said that LinkedIn will pretty much continue
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to operate as a as an a mostly independent company they're going to
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give them their head so to speak um it's a horse lingo lingo talk and uh yeah so
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blah blah blah LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic buered on connecting the
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world's professionals Microsoft
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CEO together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn as well as Microsoft
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Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on
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the planet so there you have it the
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funny thing to me about Microsoft buying
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a social network is that Microsoft in
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the in the early days like had the best one had the had the best
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had the best online connect
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interconnected social platform and
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completely squandered it like do you remember those piss poor MSN profiles
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that you could create oh yeah that were like websites kind of and they were
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weird kind of like they had an opportunity to take that they had pretty
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much a monopoly on email yep so any
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everyone everyone in their dog had a Hotmail or an adn.com account and all
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this like data mining crap that guys like Facebook and Google have come in
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and captured Microsoft had an opportunity to develop as they went or
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just sit on ass for however long and uh
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acquire LinkedIn for 26 billion do you think you're going to have to have an
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Outlook login for LinkedIn yeah
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really that was the first thing I thought of when I saw that is there
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little bit aggressive about trying to get people to do like Outlook logins and
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whatnot for their stuff hm that's very interesting you know I actually have an
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Outlook login for um for our Office 365
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accounts y but have you noticed that it's like broken it's like rain.
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onmicrosoft.com and it's separate from my other Outlook logins that I can't it
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gave me one for mine and it's the same broken mess yeah and I legit I have to
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look up the source email every time I need to log in cuz I don't remember what it is I've spent like a couple email
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I've couple emails I've spent a couple of emails which is now a unit of time um
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we're like ammo I've got 10 emails today got spend
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them right going throw a couple
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here it's like the these bits are going to run out if we send too many
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emails um I've spent like a couple hours
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on a couple of occasions trying to figure out how to fix it cuz there's
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like a wizard but the wizard just doesn't work at all like somehow I ended
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up on like azir or something oh wow what
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what is this I just want it to be at my
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domain that okay just forget it um there
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they're weird about the email stuff so so how much do you wish you'd invested
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in LinkedIn at this point it was approved at 50% above the current market
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value for LinkedIn shares sick so the
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transaction was unanimously unanimously approved by the board of directors of
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both LinkedIn and Microsoft and it's expected to close this calendar
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year tell me
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something do you see and we should we
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should we should straw pull this because I want to hear from from you guys do you
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see a way that your engagement on
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LinkedIn could somehow affect your
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decision to I know where you're going no I don't I personally think LinkedIn is
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just this stupid super weird kind of
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circle jerk so every social media platform
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basically but in like a uniquely weird
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way where like people feel obligated to
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have an account H you know what I mean it's it's
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not like Facebook where they're like ah I'm on there cuz
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like like there's certain friends or like a specific group like I have two
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groups on Facebook that I care about one of them is a a group that a bunch of my
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friends have where we just link music to each other right and it's just basically
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a jukebox now y okay and then the other group is like a gaming group of friends
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that I have sure that's why I still have my Facebook a lot of people have like a
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reason or two to still have it LinkedIn is just like just most people just feel
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like they should well because it's your
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D it's like it's your resume now yeah yeah like I actually it's funny I didn't
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create a LinkedIn until I was thinking
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about leaving MC the reason I probably have one it's so I can show off my
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little gamification thing I I did the corsera course and got gamification
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certified and was like well I can put it
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there I don't think I've updated it since then I was just like me there we
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go I I guess another thing I'd be really curious to hear about because to a
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greater extent like an employer how an employer would use it um no no I want to
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know who all has an account cuz to a greater extent than something like
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Snapchat or Instagram or Twitter I can see a reason for pretty much everyone in
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their dog to have one even if it's just because they kind of feel like they have
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to like Facebook's kind of like that to me where even before I had other social
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media platforms that I used to promote the YouTube videos cuz quite quite
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frankly I'm not much of a a natural
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social media interactor like I like
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talking to you guys but if I could do that in some other way then I would
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prefer that like just spontaneously posting the the the meal that I'm about
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to eat or the product that I'm working on is not something that comes naturally
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it's something that I kind of do when I'm not that busy yeah it's really weird
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like I don't yeah but even before I did all that stuff even before it was kind
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of my job I had a Facebook account and I
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believe I had my LinkedIn account okay so those are the ones that are just you
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kind of have to have it CU everyone everyone has it at least from my perspective I don't think I had a
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LinkedIn account until the corsera thing
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for gamification I might have just like made one so that someone didn't steal my name
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or something right or my login handle or whatever I often do that with a lot of
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different things I sure wish I had done that on a lot of things yeah especially
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like now that I'm a little bit more of a prominent internet personality gamer
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dude people just snatch it up like I I get tweets all the time hey I was
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playing a game with you the other night I'm like so I was out of the country the
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other night I like super forgot my laptop and had no internet
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so no you weren't I have seen a lus tech
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with the little bunny thing really in a game that I have played what game I
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think it was Counterstrike it was not you oh okay I know it wasn't have you on
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my thing it was not you and like they didn't know that it was me oh really oh
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I see yeah so I was like uh this is
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weird cuz I know that's not I know that's not
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actually lonus but he doesn't know that this is me at all so this is a very
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weird situation so Microsoft is um is
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hoping to kind of bring it all together but it looks like most of you would not
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have LinkedIn effect your inclination to use Office 365 or Microsoft cloud
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services I spelled that wrong and I'm also going to have a look at how many of
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you actually have LinkedIn accounts whoa that was at I did not see
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that one coming age range though so are
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you guys I mean okay we we'll go to we'll go to Twitch chat for this just
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because I don't want to do a whole formal straw P we spent a lot of time on this topic already but is this something
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that you you don't have one because you feel too young for it or what exactly is
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the what exactly is the deal here um I'm going to go ahead and let
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twitch chat kind of got people saying it's creepy got other people saying get
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a job you darn kids yeah I've got a lot of you just saying yeah you're you're
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young and don't feel like you need one a lot of people posting their ages
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um apparently they haven't gone to hiding your personal information on the
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internet school I mean that's okay I mean the likelihood of uh someone screen
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scraping all of this information and tying it back to your account and and
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doxing you is very low and the odds of you actually being honest about it alen
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watching we have 67,000 years old okay
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that's cool that's that's good um although on that subject I actually
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don't know if this is in our topics for this week but um there was uh I was
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reading an article about a um shoot you
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know what why don't you take the next one and I'll see if I can find this because it was it was really interesting
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figure out what it is I'm going to jump a fair amount then all the way down to
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OverWatch taking the number one spot from League of Legends in Korean PC bong
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hopefully I'm saying that correctly I'm
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going to post the article in the chat which you're almost definitely not going
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to be able to read some of you will be able to but not that many considering it
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is super noted English um one of the main reasons why I find this interesting
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before I even go into the article at all which I'm pretty sure is just going to
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say that it is now being played more
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than League of Legends is that this is great I love this so much my personal
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opinion on OverWatch as some people have seen on Twitter is that it's kind of
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okay and that the only reason why I actually care about it is that my
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friends play the game itself I find
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rather uninteresting and I actually technically prefer Team Fortress um but
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this is a full price game that isn't free to play it has some
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microtransactions but it's an extremely small part of the game uh League of
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Legends is a free-to-play game that is Skins are a really big deal and you
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can't get them for free in OverWatch you can get the skins for free for sure you
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can just get more of them if you pay some money it's kind cool to see a game that
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you just have to buy and doesn't rely on this other stuff working well cuz
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hopefully more of those will happen well you'll have to elaborate on that I mean
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why do you care about non-free to-play games being popular I find that a lot of
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free to-play games are low quality and
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push extremely hard to try to form game
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mechanics around the idea of you spending money um I'm not saying League
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of Legends does that League of Legends is is actually one of the lowest offenders in terms of free-to-play games
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at all which is great they're doing great um and I would be way more happy
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if OverWatch beat anyone else because I
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don't feel like League of Legends is being that that aggressive with it but
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yeah I don't know I'm just happy that a paid game is working so well because
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usually paid games are just built around being good games so that more people buy
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them instead of being addictive games so
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that more people pay microtransaction
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fees yeah I don't think there's actually a ton to add from the article itself
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OverWatch took the spot by 0.3% of total playtime Countrywide so
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it's narrow and it's like a super hot
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new title yes just kind of throwing that out there it's it's sort of like it's
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it's the the sexy new girlfriend or boyfriend the infatuation is strong um
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like pretty much everyone I know oh
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super important note did you add this or did someone else add this uh Nick added
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it apparently you can play for free in a lot of the PC BNS so they probably have
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accounts tied to the computers yeah which is a huge reason that more people
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would be playing it so maybe not quite as cool as I thought but given the
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choice to play one free game versus another free game people are choosing to
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play OverWatch instead when I was in Taiwan people were playing with their
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own accounts so and like a huge amount of
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people were playing OverWatch there to the point where had like a big mural on
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the internet cafe sign if you want to see a super cool video on that uh coming
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soon I'm not going to say when yeah actually don't know exactly when I do
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clarify how like PCS for overwat apparently you just like Signet yeah and
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it's on your you can just ah okay it's
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not that's very cool okay they can't
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hear you so we should probably be summarizing rather than um or you could
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just come over here and talk into speak directly into the microphone uh he's he
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G us a finger so I guess we're explaining it okay so apparently you can
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log into your own account so that you have your own name and your own friends
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list and all that kind of stuff but the purchase of OverWatch is somehow tied to
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the PC bong so you can play for free which is cool yeah apparently uh League
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of Legends is more is more popular again as of as of more recent stats but it's
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still noteworthy given that this is the first time it's happened in four years
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that anything has overtaken League of Legends so essentially what happens is
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like the PC bongs work to deal with blizzard where they're like oh yeah we're just going to let everyone use the
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game and they pay like a lump Su to Blizzard then people play pay hourly to
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use it on their own account yeah okay so Gizmodo I'll go ahead and
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post this in the chat I'm already ready Gizmodo says Facebook will start
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tracking which stores you walk into
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awesome um awesome the data well awesome
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for Facebook oh okay the data mining is
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strong with this one yes Facebook wants to show advertisers that their ads make
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you visit their physical stores and buy
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their stuff so to do this they'll use the phone's location services to track
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whether people actually walk into a store after seeing an ad this is
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interesting because
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now that Facebook has said that they plan to do this I have to assume that
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they already know that the result is going to be a positive one or they
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probably wouldn't have brought it up so
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that no one asks them about it you're thinking they already did it i'm oh come
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on Facebook takes like probably 10 to
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15% off of my daily battery life it's doing something and it sure as hell
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isn't doing anything with me actually opening the Facebook is intense yeah um
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so it's called the local awareness feature and businesses can include a map
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with their ad to show users where the closest store is in case the user wants
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something immediately so the advertising business
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won't be able to see you individually they'll just be able to match visits
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with the number of people that saw their ad so early results from the feature
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have been good for businesses apparently French retailer El cler says it's
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reached 1.5 million people within 10 km
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12% of clicks led to a visit within a week so okay but the metric I want to
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see is the foot traffic change not that right because they might
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have gone anyway yeah I want to see the increased amount of foot traffic that happened because of this that's the only
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metric that really matters there well I don't even know what Ela cler is because
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if it's like a grocery store then the odds of you going to a grocery store
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within a week are pretty good um let's
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have let's have a look at the heck what this is so
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um sports gear why is there an ad for TV
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wait what oh maybe they maybe no I think they're a
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sponsor enter the competition no I don't want to enter the competition what do
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they do they sell nesty so are they just like a big Walmart kind of thing I don't
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know online store high-tech wine they
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have everything it's a supermarket okay so
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it's a supermarket yeah a bunch of people are saying it's a supermarket so basically a marketer at a supermarket
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thinks it's interesting that that percentage of people who
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clicked on the ad went to a store I mean this is kind of a correlation causation
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argument don't you think I would argue that if you clicked on a coupon or
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something for ELA cler the odds were
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excellent that you were already planning a trip there because it's a grocery
27:53
store and you're just taking advantage of a deal I'll bounce back in one second but I seriously think that's why I want
27:59
to see the the foot traffic numbers right like like I don't really care
28:03
about your clicks how many people actually made it into the store cuz that's what matters to me if I'm A store
28:06
owner right interesting I mean these guys are
28:10
advertising in huge volume 12% of clicks
28:14
so 180,000 led to a visit within a week so 12% of 180,000 is what like almost
28:21
20,000 people almost 20,000 visits based
28:24
on your Facebook app tracking where you're going that is some creepy stuff
28:29
right there I am I am not a huge fan of
28:32
this to be very clear when I said that's cool at the beginning I meant that's
28:37
cool in terms of that is a very uh interesting use of
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Technology um and that is very very sort
28:45
of clever advertising not that's cool I want my Facebook app tracking me because
28:50
quite honestly the only reason I even have Facebook installed on my phone is
28:54
because Facebook has been burying any
28:58
content that's not posted natively to their platform so for example if I sent
29:03
out a tweet like oh this
29:07
Stormtrooper uh keychain dude ad is so
29:10
cool go check it out on amaz excuse me not Amazon somewhere else I guess uh go
29:15
check it out wherever else if I posted that to Twitter the way I had it set up
29:18
in the past is I would just have that tweet waterfall to the Facebook page
29:22
well Facebook actually started actively blocking the waterfalling of our YouTube
29:28
video posts because it was working and then stopped so now we have to manually
29:33
post video releases there and what I realized they've been doing once I
29:37
started posting stuff natively to Facebook is they've been burying any
29:41
anything that waterfall from another platform so you can actually see right
29:44
on every Facebook post what the reach is and you can obviously see publicly
29:48
visible data like likes and comments
29:52
and I started posting stuff that I just
29:56
I and I mean I mean don't take this the wrong way I mean you know keep hitting
30:01
that like button on Facebook or commenting or whatever but like I was
30:04
posting stuff that I really didn't think was very interesting on uh on Facebook
30:10
like uh here what's what's a good example I posted like a picture of a
30:13
graphics card um yeah here we go a
30:17
picture of an evj graphics card last night less than 24 hours ago that
30:22
reached 240,000 people has
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9.2000 likes 166 shares and 372 comments I mean
30:34
I will give it to Facebook when they decide to push your content to people
30:40
apparently either they're like really
30:43
like doing it or other platforms are
30:46
burying content to a much greater degree
30:49
than I originally anticipated because we've only got what is
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it um
30:59
342,000 likes on the Facebook page so to get that many is insane so to have a
31:04
reach of 250,000 I mean that's like us publishing every single YouTube video we
31:08
publish getting 2 million views or like one and a half million people can just
31:12
scroll past it not even look at it and it counts does it yeah okay so that's
31:17
why the video views count on Facebook is so insane because it starts autop
31:21
playing when you scroll by but that still tells us something really interesting and that's that unlike
31:27
Twitter you know apparently 70% of our Facebook
31:32
likes a haven't like muted us and B are
31:37
actually getting the post uh and the same same thing goes for YouTube
31:41
subscriptions there is no way and you
31:45
know uh game theorist did a great video on this there is no way that YouTube
31:50
actually pushes every one of your videos to every one of your subscribers they
31:54
actually don't do it you don't get our videos If I recall correctly
31:58
I like every once in a while I'll notice that I haven't gotten them in forever so
32:02
I'll go and just like autoplay some playlists and then they'll start to pop
32:05
up again yeah so there you go if you're not watching regularly they they just
32:09
kind of stop delivering the worst is when I'll have a video playing and like
32:14
I'll leave work and forget about it take my headphones off it's still playing
32:18
leave work forget about it come back in on like Monday and it's just still
32:22
playing videos from whoever and now all
32:26
my subscription boxes are just solidly them that would be a really fun video
32:32
like a rabbit hole Style video like exploring the YouTube rabbit hole like
32:37
do different things and just see how it reacts cuz we would never be able to actually figure it out no you should do
32:42
nothing so we should leave YouTube videos playing watch next for like a
32:48
week oh waa or like a month and like we
32:51
should do it on like we could create a bunch of VMS so we could actually do it
32:55
on like 20 computers at the same time time and we could we should start them
33:01
all on the same video like 10 seconds
33:05
apart and then see where they all end up how far how deep does the YouTube
33:11
rabbit hole go and like what it's what it is now suggesting to you and stuff
33:16
yeah should we also on on the VMS should we VPN them out so they're in different
33:20
geographical locations I don't think so
33:24
I think should we try that with like one or two just to see if it's yeah yeah
33:27
should have a couple be from uh so we should VPN most of them to America or
33:32
something and then we should do like a couple in Canada a couple in Great
33:35
Britain or something like that and like a couple in Australia and I want to see
33:40
I want to see where they end up I bet this could be like a Twitch Plays
33:44
Pokemon type thing if it wasn't for all the copyright infringement like if you
33:47
just had amount of copy all the copyright anyway just but if you had a
33:52
twitch channel that just played the rabbit hole I I I bet that would go like
33:56
I bet people would be interested that where is where is Twitch chat's freaking
34:00
out they're like they're like do it do it do it do it uh do you want do you
34:04
want to do it sure okay uh I'll email myself all right yeah let's let's do it
34:08
I am uh I am super curious because there is no way that the algorithm sends them
34:14
all to the same place it's so experimental like it's it's constantly
34:17
learning so uh you know oh man I can't
34:21
even imagine some of the weird stuff some of them will have been watching by the time we get back to
34:26
it I like it so like how do we film this though do we do like updates along the
34:30
way or do we just like personally take
34:33
notes along the way and then do a recap video so we have a machine if you can
34:38
only tie it up for like a week I have a 44 core machine so we could actually
34:45
probably screen C this just such a like I have a 44 cor
34:54
like who can just say that like I don't know sorry
34:58
keep going sometimes the job catches me you could do 44 VMS each running a 2.2
35:03
GHz Broadwell core core i7 with
35:07
hyperthreading okay you can do 44 machines and if you can only tie it up
35:12
for like a week because I'm going to roll it out as like a render server at
35:16
some point I'm actually bench I'm stress testing it now um then then go ham go
35:20
ham because uh John from lime Tech can help you clone the VM so you don't even
35:25
use up extra storage I could even put like 15 or 20 of them on the standard
35:31
experiment yeah and then try some weird stuff with start start on like a start
35:36
on a Linus Tech tips video and because it's a reasonably powerful core you
35:40
could set up xplit on all of them and you could actually record the entire
35:44
thing because it's an unraid server so
35:48
we could fill it with all the storage oh my God how much storage we need for that
35:52
a lot 44 computers constantly capturing their
35:56
screen for AEK week yes how much story
35:59
should be fine we could record at pretty low bit rate I don't think it's a big deal like 720 720p like 2 megabit
36:05
something or yeah something like that yeah should be fine so 88 megabit for a
36:10
week yeah I mean that's only uh you know
36:14
this a lot yeah yeah it's fine it's fine it's fine 8 megabytes per second yeah
36:19
should be fine it's a lot yeah I like it I like it I like it I no 88 not no 88 oh
36:25
yes yes yes yes 88 megabytes per oh yeah yeah yeah be fine she'll be fine yeah
36:29
we've got those uh we've got those 4 terab ssds so those will those will bear
36:32
the Brent of it for a little while we are going to build the most ridiculous
36:37
like YouTube watching machine yeah will
36:41
we be violating YouTube's terms of service are you allowed to not watch I
36:46
mean come on it's it's in the name of science it's
36:50
not technically a bot yeah it's actually
36:53
legitimately someone will sit and they will click and then it's up to YouTube
36:57
what they do for there it's not our fault does it ever will it stop I don't
37:02
think it stops we'll find out we'll find out we'll report back to you guys we
37:06
need keep the mouse moving on all of them write a script to keep the mouse
37:10
moving that's a bot but it's not interacting with the window I not saying
37:15
clicking or anything just keep the mouse moving I see so it could just click the
37:19
start menu periodically probably yeah yeah okay okay well we'll uh we won't do
37:25
any of that totally not at all um okay smaller chips moving
37:31
forward that is to say processors oh you beat me to it it ready rat bastard
37:36
original article here from The New York Times may depend on this is such a great
37:41
uh this is such a great like um I
37:45
actually don't know where they put it in the article nope no it looks like
37:48
someone was just the the SEO guy over at the New York Times was just having fun
37:53
uh smaller chips may depend on technology from Grandma's radio
37:59
when the actual headline is smaller chips may depend on vacuum tube
38:03
technology so the the the URL is just
38:06
kind of funny the URL is amazing that's pretty cool um some writer was like no
38:10
one's ever going to see this so the Silicon transistor is a tiny
38:16
switch that is basically the fundamental
38:19
building block of modern microelectronics um and they've been
38:23
getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller until they've gotten to the
38:27
point where they they they they can't figure out what substrates to put them
38:31
on and they can't figure out how to cram them any closer together without having
38:35
to deal with like electron migration and
38:38
and and they just just plain old can't build them any smaller it's becoming
38:43
like a very much a problem yeah more Mo's law
38:47
I mean look at Intel they were like Tick Tock until the end of time now it's like
38:52
Ticky talk it's like a but even with more law
38:58
the idea isn't that you do the exact same thing forever the idea is you
39:03
innovate and change what you're doing but the performance metrics and whatnot
39:06
increase well Mo's law strictly speaking like original Moors law was that the
39:11
transistor density would double okay
39:14
yeah so so yes so I guess it is totally
39:17
you do the same so if you find ways to improve performance that involve like
39:21
farting on every chip on its way out of the factory if that somehow unicorn
39:25
farts or something and that's still
39:29
maintaining the performance can now reflect every color of the rainbow
39:32
because of the unicorn fart so it makes it like a Quantum chip because yeah you
39:36
don't necessarily know which color it could have any state within the entire
39:39
spectrum of light yeah which would that's Ian actually very cool good
39:44
thought if only we could find a unicorn to test it um so anyway smaller chips uh
39:50
may see the Silicon transistor
39:54
replaced by the vacuum tube which is
39:57
like so ass backwards because the other
40:02
version of that like the vacuum tube being replaced by the transistors
40:06
happened in 19 in the 1970s so like it
40:09
happening again and the other way I don't know the size of these things is
40:15
uh where is it like 1 millionth the size of original vacuum tubes or something
40:19
yeah so this is um there's actually a lot of notes on this article because uh
40:23
Colton and Nick know that we're not particularly sciency so they try and
40:26
help us so it's the Nano fabrication group at Caltech that's researching
40:30
these Ultra small fabricated circuits that function like vacuum tubes as a
40:36
candidate to replace the transistor none of this is said in stone the the ultra
40:40
small means something to the effect of 1 millionth the size of old vacuum tubes
40:44
the research is being financed by Boeing and the researchers have also explored
40:48
using vacuum tubes for flat panel displays in sorry not these researchers
40:53
researchers also explored using them for flat panel displays in the 1990s though
40:57
LCD technology ended up being both cheaper and more effective in that case
41:02
so here's kind of like the the
41:05
counterintuitive brain explosion how it works because the problem with modern
41:10
transistors is that the smaller they get the more they leak electrons so in
41:13
modern chips as much as half of the power consumed is being lost to
41:17
electrons leaking from transistors that are only dozens of atoms wide wasting
41:22
energy and generating heat which Heat by
41:25
the way causes these transistors to eventually fail speeding up the process
41:29
of um electron migration so these
41:33
miniature vacuum tube switches use a mechanism that causes leak use the
41:39
mechanism that causes leakage in transistors known as Quantum tunneling
41:42
to switch on end off the flow of electrons without leakage yes which is
41:47
like the whole point so they would use less power and work faster than today's
41:51
transistor based chips they can be yeah to be clear vacuum tubes are not the
41:55
only thing that could Poss possibly replace the modern transistor carbon
41:59
Nano tubes which we hear a lot about but
42:02
see very little yes um and have been hearing a lot about for a very long time
42:07
so hopefully something actually happens with them um but yeah this is just
42:12
another one of those attempts to solve the problem um so to be clear how close
42:16
are we to being up against the wall well once the industry shrinks below 10 nmet
42:21
which by the way um we're as low as 14
42:25
nanm on in's latest process so once the industry gets below 10 NM silicon
42:31
becomes much more unpredictable doing weird stuff like emitting light so um
42:37
that's not ideal and a new solution will
42:40
be needed yeah uh this is interesting so
42:44
the original article here is from USA Today Microsoft makes a bold move into
42:49
helping serve the marijuana business I
42:53
think this is super smart does this have to do with their uh Washington
42:56
headquarters
43:00
that's kind of funny maybe what the reason why I think this is super smart
43:04
is because Canada is currently trying to
43:07
make it officially legal um and is
43:11
planning for that in like 2017 or whatever we've seen States like Colorado
43:15
be able to do amazing things with the taxable money that they've gotten off of
43:19
the sale of this stuff uh like actually
43:22
really amazing things considering they've made millions and millions of dollars off of it which is great so it's
43:28
kind of happening it being legalized is kind of happening so Microsoft getting
43:32
behind it in the server side of things is great they're doing that not by like
43:38
necessarily making anything but they're allowing a company called kind at least
43:43
I think that's a short version of It kind Financial to use their azur service
43:48
for their what is it seed to sale program which tracks plants the all the
43:52
way through the process which is good because it's a highly regulated
43:56
government thing as it probably should be yeah and I mean that's one of the
44:00
things about pot um now I slang terms
44:04
I've had a lot I've actually had a lot
44:08
of people don't know what these are speculate I just like put fingers over
44:12
top of other fingers and was like yeah in American Sign Language it's two RS
44:16
facing each other is it yep nice
44:19
yeah okay thank you for that um so two
44:23
lions I've seen a lot of speculation online uh as to whether or not I h420
44:30
blaze it I'm going to actually acknowledge it for the first time ever I
44:34
don't smoke pot I don't either I get lots of comments about that too because
44:38
I have kind of droopy eyes yeah so everyone just no I don't I look tired
44:41
because I run my own business and my eyes are red because I'm up late running
44:45
my own business and so a lot of people figure that that has to do with the
44:49
marriage of an it actually isn't um the
44:52
last thing I need is to be slightly less alert at any point during the day
44:55
because I have two almost three children now and I have stuff to do I do support
45:01
the legalization and Taxation though so
45:04
I again I'm taking a stance on something that I normally don't get involved in I
45:07
fully support the legalization of it because of a couple of reasons number
45:11
one is I have to pay a toll to cross the bridge into the city now because our
45:15
government doesn't have enough money because they're busy letting the Hell's Angels take all the revenue from
45:19
marijuana sales thank you for that and you're clearly not stopping it from
45:23
happening so you might as well make money off it and number two is I would really like for marijuana to be safer
45:28
for the people who are using it uh right now marijuana is not a drug that is and
45:33
you know what you can debate this all day but it's not a drug that is in the
45:37
grand scheme of things particularly dangerous especially when compared to
45:40
other completely legal substances like alcohol and when you're buying it from
45:44
like super sketchy dudes they could lace it with whatever and it can be a
45:47
dangerous process and that's where marijuana can get extraordinarily
45:51
dangerous and can be used as a gateway drug so to speak to get people hooked on
45:56
much much harder substances something that while I haven't personally
45:59
experienced I've had people that are very close to me personally experience
46:03
and is a super huge bummer so having it be available legally and getting the
46:08
taxation Revenue as well as making it safer for people who are quite frankly
46:12
obviously going to do it anyway is not the end of the world for me you're
46:15
really losing that war um not you like
46:19
so yeah there you have it I have officially taken a stance on it I don't
46:23
use it I never have I don't intend to but I don't care if other people use it
46:27
cuz I personally don't think there's anything you can do to stop them anyhow
46:30
and give the government that tax money that's the M like oh my God Colorado
46:34
made so much off of that that's fantastic fill some holes in some roads
46:39
take some tolls away take my toll off education you know how much that bridge
46:43
costs across it's like 350 each way it cost me $7 to go to IKEA not to mention
46:49
the like $500 that you spend every time you go to IKEA because how does it
46:52
happen it just does it just does yeah what if Ikea had tolls
46:58
um in order to go backwards through the story you have to like spend
47:05
money well it's kind of like that because you can't get out of the store I
47:08
know that's what I mean though or like if you go from one section to the next
47:12
section without spending like 15 minutes there you get a toll so if you like
47:17
spend long enough in each section of the store you can go through it for free or
47:21
if you spend even longer you get a bonus
47:24
of free meatballs the number of people like listening to me but not
47:28
understanding me is unbelievable OMG it's not a gateway drug it sure as hell
47:32
is if it's laced with something else that you become physically dependent on
47:35
if you put something hyper addictive on top of the weed or whatever that clearly
47:40
not exactly how the process works but yeah you I don't know these things um
47:45
you would then become addicted to that and need that and then yeah and you can
47:49
to be very clear and this is something a lot of people don't know you can be
47:52
addicted to a substance never having knowingly consumed it or even in fact
47:58
never having consumed it um babies can be born addicted to heroin um and by
48:03
addicted that doesn't mean they use it that means that they are physically
48:07
dependent on it and they will undergo withdrawal symptoms if they were to get
48:12
some small taste of it and then not have it anymore instantly because they already
48:17
have a physical dependency yeah so it's it's we're talking about jerk bag drug
48:22
dealers lacing things in order to hook clients that they can make money on for
48:26
rest of that Cent's life talk
48:30
yeah um all right so let's talk about uh
48:33
let's talk about ways of making money on that subject that I personally uh don't
48:39
really agree with uh let's do the uh the internet creators Guild
48:43
so I'm on it I would call myself veral
48:48
no okay as big a fan of Hank Green and
48:53
the Green Brothers in general that I could be
48:57
watching their content like I've probably only watched you could count on
49:00
one hand the number of videos I've watched from them but I respect them a
49:03
lot as Internet entrepreneurs as content
49:06
creators as people who have taken
49:10
making YouTube videos and turned it into
49:14
not just a bigger business because it's not just about that but into into a
49:18
viable career for the people around them it's something I admire it's something I
49:22
respect it's something I aspire to do for myself um and for the people around
49:27
me like this guy hello um I think that
49:30
being an online content creator is a real job and I like to be the proof of
49:35
it not just for myself but for others
49:38
have you noticed it's getting notably less weird to tell people what you do
49:43
yep at least heard YouTube three years even like huge changes so uh I never
49:51
even used to tell people the YouTube part of my job when I was try to hide it
49:55
yeah and now when I try hide it by saying uh I work for a media creation
50:00
company and they eventually dig a little bit further and I say YouTube it's not
50:03
like the super weird response anymore so with my respect for the Green Brothers
50:09
um and Hank in particular someone in the chat sorry the chat is like thank God
50:14
lonus thinks his own job is a real
50:18
job that was a close one
50:21
there um I think this is an ugly blate
50:27
cash grab I think that the internet creators Guild post from Hank Green
50:33
announcing it two days ago um reads like a like a like a market
50:40
analysis business case study uh determining the feasibility of this as a
50:46
way to make a profit um maybe I am
50:51
completely backwards because for the most part uh Hanks and intentions seem
50:58
pretty good he seems to have in the past
51:01
been pretty Pro content creator but I
51:04
can't think of a reason for anything that the internet creators Guild
51:08
proposes to do to cost money um and this
51:12
all reads like like figuring out like it's like an it's like a spreadsheet of
51:17
how much money we can make on this how many internet creators are there how
51:20
about 37,000 and then there's some crap about
51:24
for context Facebook has ,000 employees and if every internet Creator were a
51:28
company it would be hiring faster than any company in Silicon Valley and
51:32
there's 300,000 people making more than
51:36
what what 2500 if internet Creator were a company it would be if you added them
51:41
all together anyway um so the number of people making $2,500 a year um 300,000
51:48
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
51:52
um blah blah blah blah blah blah blah continues to get more complex it's up to
51:57
and a lot of this is valid the fact that it's up to individual creators to take
52:01
time off from their lives running small businesses to you know deal with
52:06
something going wrong like oh I don't know say for example Amazon cutting off
52:09
your affiliate account um and I've known people who have personally had it happen
52:13
to not just me for reasons that suck a lot more than well I violated the terms
52:18
of service and they kick me to the curb without so much as a phone call or a uh
52:22
you know one last time you know um
52:27
like Austin for example someone in the chat sorry this this was my point so I
52:31
wanted to say it if plumbers were a company it would be the largest
52:35
company exactly like what which has absolutely
52:39
nothing to do with anything um like
52:43
Austin Austin Evans for example had his uh turned off temporarily because it
52:48
wasn't available in the state that he was living in all of a sudden like it can just it can just happen things can
52:52
go wrong and like I I see that that's interesting and then there this bolded
52:57
point there is no system for protecting creators many of whom have no experience
53:01
in any industry let alone the notoriously Cutthroat entertainment
53:05
industry um and there's no centralized organization representing creators so it
53:10
it goes on to say so I'm creating one to which I'm contributing $50,000 which is
53:15
coming from VidCon um which is and then
53:19
it like it even says obviously VidCon benefits hugely from the explosion in
53:23
online content and we're looking for ways to give back also known as invest
53:26
in it and uh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Laura who has worked
53:31
with VidCon since the first year will be the executive director uh so here are
53:36
some things it wants to do most of which I think are pure nonsense help the Press
53:41
talk intelligently about online video so
53:46
I mean so what you want to be tube filter
53:49
or something like you just want to be a publication that that other online press
53:54
can sorry can someone can someone call
53:58
Creator Guild when they're trying to like if maybe investigative journalism
54:03
of some sort is doing they want be a um okay anyway so
54:09
share stories and strategies from professional creators that will be available only to members why would
54:14
these be available only to members if the idea is that you actually want to be
54:18
helpful collecting stories and strategies from professional creators is
54:21
not real freaking difficult we've had plenty of uh professional creators on
54:25
for example the w show as guests in the past um increase transparency about what
54:31
creators do and don't receive from MCN advertisers agencies and managers this I
54:34
can see being valuable but this could be done in a handful of blog posts this
54:39
doesn't need an organization act as a bridge between creators and platforms
54:43
this looks like an opportunity to double dip to me this looks like an opportunity
54:46
to charge platforms for access to the creators you represent I mean this that
54:50
feels an awful lot like an MC what an MC's role was supposed to be and as as
54:56
long as they are serving the Creator's interest
55:01
rather than their own then I guess that's great
55:05
but again I don't see that being a
55:08
full-time job and I don't see that being something that a Creator should have to pay for because that's where we're
55:12
getting there are some things here that I think are great um for example sample
55:17
contracts for sponsors managers MCN merchandise and agencies would have been
55:21
phenomenally helpful for us a few years ago um but some of this stuff just
55:27
doesn't mean anything Foster diversity
55:30
in online video content how are you
55:33
going to do that online video content is
55:37
quite possibly the most diverse video
55:41
platform available and has absolutely nothing preventing it from being more
55:45
diverse as video equipment and access to
55:49
good enough internet and computer hardware to create videos becomes more
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and more affordable as time goes on that
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you have absolutely zero impact on this so it just it reads like a bunch of
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lists of things that sound great on paper and for some reason cost $60 a
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year per Creator we figure you can spare $5 a
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month for this and if we can't provide enough value to make that investment
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more than worth it we're just not doing a good
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job the thing that I really hate about this is that everything there the sample
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contracts are a great example could have been done you a few minutes for free as
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like a tab like a drop down on the VidCon website like Creator resources um
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and they've got this board of directors that's a bunch of prominent creators
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Anana is one of them uh they've got an Advisory board that includes uh Casey
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neistat so some some pretty big names um
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for experienced guys like that or if they reached out to guest creators for
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example YouTube asked me to create a number of years ago uh a segment on
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finding your Niche that I happily did lots of content creators would be happy
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to create advice for uh for smaller creators um there is no reason that $60
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a year needs to be charged and the thing that really bugs me about it is that I
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can really see it working and I can see it working on the people who we really
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shouldn't be taking money from like I've attended uh three Google workshops now
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uh like Google YouTube run workshops for
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um existing and want toe content creators and those guys are really
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impressionable and quite frankly A little vulnerable um they they just need
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basic information a lot of which can be accessed through YouTube's own tools
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that are built right into the video dashboard and the main thing totally is
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the contracts yep contracts are scary not a lot of people understand them
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because they're written in a kind of weird way and a lot of them get thrown
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at really fast and yeah I don't feel
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like you need a membership for that um
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so especially you don't need a membership in my mind for joining a
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guild that talks about a lot of these things but actually doesn't have any
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bargaining power with anyone whatsoever so they're completely
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powerless they're taking your membership fee and they offer these sort of vague
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resources is that you know if we're not doing a good enough job then I guess
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don't buy it anymore
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um yeah so what happens uh anyway so I
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had actually told myself when I read this article uh that I wasn't going to
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bother talking about it because I just didn't want to give it any publicity but
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instead I've decided to talk about it because I don't like it um I think it's
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crappy I think all these resources are out there I know because I've been
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through this as well and um
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yeah yeah and floating Cactus puts it um
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puts it well it's just another euphemism for Union except that the key difference
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here is that a union actually has collective bargaining power yeah which a
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guild does not
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so there you go I really don't like it
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um let's move on to our next topic oh this is sort of a sort of a scandal
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original article here is from Tech PowerUp allegedly MSI and ASUS send VGA
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review samples with higher clocks than retail
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cards so I think it's not just that um I
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don't know how many different notes we have on this but I was scrambling
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researching this as fast as I could before we went on the show and if I saw
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correctly they're actually different um
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bioses and like some cards will have like OC mode and len2 mode and all that
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stupid crap that you should just well L2 mode on that Kingpin card was useful cuz
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remember it circumvented all the ocp crap yeah no one circumstance they
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should just all be always on well I think that's an invid restriction so
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that's a whole deeper we're back to we're back to Greenlight at that point
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which I've talked about extensive in the past and I hate but is sort of I also
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understand why it exists yeah um anyways
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so like some people are saying that oh it's just they're they're shipped preset
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in one of those bigger modes mhm so like it would it would show up in ln2 mode or
60:43
OC mode or whatever uh some people are saying that they're a custom BIOS that
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have cranked settings above what you can normally have so consumers have access
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this is from the tech PowerUp article to the higher clock speed profile
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but only if they install a custom app by the companies and enable that profile
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something that quite frankly flies in the face of the advice that's been being
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given by Tech Publications for the last decade which is don't install AI Suite
61:11
don't install any random applications because for the most part all they do is
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bog down your system um so to have the product require that application from an
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end user but not for a reviewer uh feels
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a little skevy some of this I worry
61:28
about because of GPU boost yep I've done videos on that before and this is
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honestly getting close to the margin of
61:36
error kind of problem with GPU boost where cards just come out at different
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speeds yep but it came out that these were predefined settings not just the
61:46
card acting differently and it would be very difficult for the average reviewer
61:50
even a very Vigilant one to notice these differences so in the case of the DT x
61:56
1080 gaming X from Gigabyte the wait did
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I say Gigabyte no I think that's an MSI card
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sorry gaming gaming X I think that's MSI
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y yeah MSI sorry sorry sorry I don't know G1 gaming I know I
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know yeah it's hard um the difference is
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1822 MHz boost versus 1847 MHz
62:24
boost that can totally feel like a GPU boost that's a 1% difference that
62:30
basically really doesn't make much of a difference at all but would be a
62:34
difference between what a reviewer would see versus what an end user would see
62:37
without the utility um so it really does feel like splitting hairs a little bit
62:41
to people like me who don't really overclock video cards anyway but to a
62:47
consumer who shops yeah based on a review that compares a bunch of GTX
62:51
1080s I mean you and I I I don't even
62:54
look at that stuff anymore because it's like well if I really wanted to turn it up another 20 MHz I would yeah myself I
63:00
just go with what I know has a good warranty what I think looks cool and
63:03
what has water block compatibility um if this has been going
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on for a long time I wonder if it is related to why I ended up making all
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those GPU boost videos because I do specifically remember having a card and
63:17
being like this is running not at all what it says it's supposed to run at
63:20
interes so sending out emails but I'm not entirely sure so this is interesting
63:25
I actually first heard about this uh when someone posted on my Facebook post
63:30
or on my TW actually I've been engaging a lot more on Facebook I've been reading a lot more stuff now that I realized it
63:35
reaches so many more people I'm like oh well maybe I should spend some time on this platform anyway um someone asked
63:41
when I posted a picture of an EVGA 1070
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hey there's this Scandal is EVGA doing it I have a response from Jacob and I'm
63:49
not going to include what he said about the other companies because you know
63:53
that's a private conversation but what he has to say about EVGA is that we are
63:59
not doing it EVGA cards have always been exactly the same Hardware in BIOS as
64:04
production so no need to worry there smiley face and therefore our 1070
64:08
review will move on Jacob is a good guy
64:11
he would not lie to me um there's a lot of people in the industry that I would
64:15
not necessarily say that about but Jacob salt of the earth if he says it I
64:20
believe it um so there you go EVGA is
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not involved uh
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um okay let me have a look
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um um yeah I don't really see anything else that seems that important here so I
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those all the ones I really wanted to talk about pretty much
64:45
it this news is a little bit late but if we just want to talk about something
64:49
else at all uh nostras finally had their meeting with
64:52
blizzard really and like basically all
64:56
the top heads of whatever at World of Warcraft and the CEO of Blizzard were
65:01
all in on the meeting and the meeting ended up going like multiple hours over
65:05
time okay and apparently they were taking a lot of notes and had a lot of
65:08
interesting inside metrics and stuff um
65:11
they didn't lose the code that was not a
65:14
thing that happened they still have the code there's certain because of like how
65:20
versioning software Works they can go back and find it there's certain things
65:25
that they don't H I don't remember without going back to the post I don't
65:28
remember exactly what it is so there's still some rebuilding that has to be done but they're not like missing the
65:32
entire game right which was the original story yes yeah that no one bought no I
65:38
actually I thought it was possible like thinking back we don't have original
65:43
footage or even exported video foot well hold on stuff can happen you a hard
65:48
drive can die right but again small
65:51
company versus big company have Version Control and they would have that stuff
65:55
in multiple places big company that might have determined that the 9 years
65:59
ago build is not that important anymore it's possible I I doubt it I
66:05
just because like what if they wanted to do some weird valve lost an entire
66:09
episode of
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halflife oh man uh sorry anyway
66:19
apparently like they're not really saying anything yet or whatever I kind
66:23
of expect if anything gets announced it wouldn't be before BlizzCon and that's
66:27
not for a while so yeah um but
66:31
apparently it was a very positive overall meeting okay well that's good to
66:35
hear and like devs in the meeting were being like yeah if it was back I would
66:40
play so o that was kind of interesting
66:44
that's telling yeah that's like ouch
66:48
yeah oh ow okay so I think they might actually want
66:53
to do it but I think they wanted to get the movie out of the way right they
66:57
wanted to get the launch of Legion out of I don't mean like wanting to get it out of the way they wanted those things
67:01
to right walk their course first yeah
67:05
and then I think if they launch it anywhere it would probably be blue speaking of which you saw the movie
67:10
yeah okay I have seen multiple videos online of people saying that it sticks
67:15
to the lore really well what book did you
67:19
read not the ones I read and I'm going
67:22
to exit no it's fine I'm not going to talk
67:26
about it for too long I've been thinking about making a video on this I just don't even know where to start like hit
67:31
it hit it Warcraft movie is highly topical to our
67:35
viewers I just like he already convinced me not to watch it okay medivh oh I
67:41
don't want to give spoilers but like there's books and games already out so
67:44
is it okay I think oh okay uh you know
67:48
what no hold on hold on hold on I want to hear from the audience we can just
67:52
give people the opportunity to tune out you know what talk about one thing
67:56
before they enter this poll let's do this let's let's can the L show and
68:00
let's do a short after party today let's talk about the Warcraft movie I want to
68:03
do one more topic uh before we before we cut the show uh Microsoft considered
68:08
launching and upgraded Xbox one this year uh Phil Spencer came out and
68:12
basically said um yeah we could have
68:16
done an upgraded Xbox but uh no no it's still working see it's just not changing
68:21
scenes cuz I think I like misclicked kind of weird oh I moved it that's
68:26
good um actually this the stream system been like totally fine no weird behavior
68:32
in xplit no weird Behavior surged the power SP at some point I don't know man
68:38
um so Phil Spencer basically said at an interview at E3 that the company
68:41
seriously considered launching a new Xbox One with upgraded Hardware this
68:44
year but decided against it is instead launching a smaller version of the Xbox
68:48
One the Xbox One S they're focusing on a 4K ready console to release next year
68:53
code name Scorpio which has like actually a pretty crazy GPU in it well
68:59
that's prob that's probably why they didn't launch it this year because
69:02
honestly to me the console refresh has
69:06
been a waiting game from the beginning I I was talking to John about it and like
69:11
no I haven't read anything about this anywhere I have no like solid actual
69:15
reason to think this I'm just kind of wondering if it's a s so
69:21
1070 because the memory bandwidth matches up and the teraflops on the chip
69:26
is very close they said six I think in the 1070
69:30
is 6 point something it could also be they could
69:34
also be going back to AMD um AMD didn't
69:37
say anything about it but man they were smug as a be in a bit okay I've invented
69:44
that saying no one no one ever said that before but AMD was pretty smug about
69:48
their console leadership when I was at the Polaris launch event still so I I'm
69:53
I am guessing I why I got excited about that is because
69:59
he uh Phil Spencer whatever was talking about VR yeah I almost included in my
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Oculus Rift thing but I didn't bother and uh the PlayStation VR stuff that's
70:08
coming out they're both pushing towards VR and SMP would help them a lot
70:12
right so I thought that made sense but I
70:15
guess not so basically in a nutshell I think I think Microsoft by waiting out
70:21
Sony a little bit longer has effectively
70:24
won the Next Generation the 4K
70:28
generation console war they're going to be so much more powerful and uh and Nick
70:34
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