The WAN Show - VALVE Sued Over Underage Gambling Accusations - June 24, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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12,279 words · ~61 min read
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all right guys welcome to the WAN Show
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it is that time again this week the time that I set aside to spend with you all
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of you out there in twitch Twitch
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streaming land and oh crap I've got the
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tab open on my on my laptop and I'm like 20 seconds behind I can hear myself and
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okay I've uh I've managed to make it so that I'm not going crazy anymore which
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is nice I am unfortunately without Luke this week
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which is which is a real shame but he's basically got some Stuffy's got a deal
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with this week and I totally get it so I'm going to hopefully have someone join
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me in a short while here and uh you know
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it's funny I was planning to have the show go completely smoothly with no
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hitches in his absence the way that he claims that it always goes when I'm not
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around but I will confess to you now I I
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have not yet actually tested uh my
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screen share so this is the moment of
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truth will I be having H an easy well
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not easy I mean you know live streaming is it's very difficult very very
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difficult but will I be having a seamless show today or oh look at that
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nailed it yes my friend so we've got a lot of great topics for you today
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there's been some big news and there's been some little news um researchers
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built a 1,000 core processor I'll be talking about that and why it probably
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doesn't mean a whole lot to you and won't for for quite some time uh
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YouTube's terms of service have been updated uh it's mostly around their
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harassment and cyber bullying policy so
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that is going to have potentially
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huge um ramifications for some YouTubers
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out there who are basically making a living out of harassment and cyber bully
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uh twitch brings cfaa and trademark claim against bot operators apparently
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they are a persistent frustration out is some strong language coming from their
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uh senior vice president marketing okay and in much
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Huger news that's not necessarily directly purely Tech related but will
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absolutely have an effect on technology and how that how that works especially
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for Europe an moving forward the UK has
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voted to leave the EU it is it is final
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but there are some important other notes
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about it that we're going to be talking a little bit about later so without
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further Ado Let's uh get on Twitch chat
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here and see if uh see if wow no one is
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complaining that is amazing and here come all the complaints
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so let's roll the intro so that I can just you don't even have to watch me
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pretending not to read
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them square face oh what the heck it's
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like four pixels off look at that we're like dancing oh
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wait also for some reason we have much darker skin in this one fascinating
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tunnel bear fresh books and those are all the same but the
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blank ones ah one of these days one of these
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days we're going to become a real professional Media company and we're not
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going to we're not going to make little mistakes like who am I kidding that's
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never happening all right so let's jump right into to our first topic here the
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original article here is from n Gadget researchers build a
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1,000 core processor that they
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call the kilo cor yeah that makes sense so in a
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nutshell what a what a kilo core or or a many many core processor would be
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optimized for is as you can well imagine
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performing many many parallel operations
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so that's many many many many small things all at once this is not going to
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have pretty much any relevance to you
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the person sitting there who wants to play games or um encode video that you
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edited or I mean really most of what you
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would consider to be a a home use for a computer this is not going to have any
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relevance for you um I don't want to say
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ever because ever is a really big word but uh for a very very long time because
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the limitation of the way that we
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currently code software is usually when
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it comes to Performance the single-threaded performance of the CPU
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or CPUs that are being used to handle the workload it will take an enormous change
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in the way that programming is done for something like this hyper low power kilo
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cor processor to have much Rel to
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someone who wants to even you know General web browsing can consume a lot
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of CPU horsepower these days but there
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are things that it can be used for sorting through data encryption uh one
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of the applicability sort of notes that I have in here is encoding videos but
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that is heavily dependent on the codec being used for one thing and for well I
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mean how many video streams you're trying to encode so if you could make
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a th core processor that is powerful enough for each of the cores to handle
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an individual encoding stream holy crap I mean I could see a site like twitch or
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like YouTube being all over that kind of
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Technology it's like you mean we can have a thousand cores Each of which can
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handle an incoming video encoding request from a file upload by itself and
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these things can consume uh let's
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see7 Watts total I mean the whole thing could run on a AA battery and this is
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without the benefit of the latest manufacturing process node so this was
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actually built on 32 nanometer technology which is quite archaic at
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this point in time though it should be noted that a mere what I don't know four
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or five years ago that would have been considered state-ofthe-art so the
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processor handles 115 billion instructions per second and
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part of what makes it operate so efficiently at the core is that the course transfer data to each other
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directly rather than on a shared cache of memory though again it should be
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noted that that will only be more efficient for certain workloads where
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the cores need to share data directly with each other and where you can build
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enough interconnects for the cores to not have to leap over multiple other
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cores in order to access another one very very cool so let's just see if
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there's uh is there like a picture I can show you or anything like that it looks
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like most of the news articles this one's over on bgr.com are just pulling
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generic CPU pictures off of Shutterstock
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here oo flight attendants and passengers get away with this all the time
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fascinating love it thank you for that love those sponsored articles under the
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actual article that I'm trying to read all right so the original Source
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here is dexerto.com a site that we've
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never actually referred to before as far as I'm aware just go ahead and make sure
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that's POS so there have been some changes to the
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YouTube terms of service that Target harassment now to be clear I don't have
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a strong objection to changing terms of
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service to prevent cyber bullying um or
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harassment and honestly I don't know why we really even call it cyber bullying
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bullying is bullying and calling it e bullying it's almost like or cyber
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bullying is almost like softening it I mean what's actually you know what would
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be considered more adulterous sex or cyber sex you know
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what do we consider to be more sport-like
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sports or Esports and I don't personally
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believe that cyber bullying has the potential to be any less harmful than
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any other type of bullying and in fact I think it can make you feel much more
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trapped because you can't even escape from it online so anyway YouTube has
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made some changes to the terms in
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cases where harassment crosses the line
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into a malicious attack it can be reported and will be removed so this is
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referring specifically to a video that a user would upload so harassment may
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include abusive videos comments and messages revealing someone's personal
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information which is great I mean doxing
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is never okay maliciously recording someone without their consent that's
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interesting how do you determine that it is
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malicious and I mean what does that do for an awful lot of YouTube videos that
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are just like this person fail look how stupid
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they are that's uh that's that's interesting
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that could have serious ramifications for Content that it will be uploaded and
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a lot of content that's already on the site making hurtful and negative
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comments and videos about another person deliberately posting content in order to
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humiliate at someone unwanted
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sexualization which encompasses sexual harassment or sexual bullying in any
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form and incitement to harass other
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users or creators interesting note is that uh
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what's what's that channel called Drama alert yeah or something yeah K yeah
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drama alert got a new host within
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minutes minutes of this announcement hours of this announcement hi Nick
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welcome to the show hello everyone um that's partially due to that and
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partially due to the fact that he's just a really you know remember hold on we're
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uploading this to YouTube no personal attacks okay no harassment allegedly not
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a very nice personed um and a lot of
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people have been posting videos essentially attacking him so it's like a
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two-fold thing I think with that but yes they did replace their host funny how
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funny how swords can have two edges on them it I mean it cuts both ways as the
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kids say actually I think that's a somewhat dated expression which kids the
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70-year-old kids oh come on I'm not 70 anyway you
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can report people that are breaking the new and updated terms of service using
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YouTube's reporting tool speaking of which I actually need to deal with a
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false flag on one of our stupid videos
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uh yeah every um every it's uh basically
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it's like just you know no this isn't valid um especially once you're once
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you're a uh verified verified YouTuber
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it's it's pretty simple to deal with a lot of those types of reports but uh
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every once in a while someone will say that our video needs closed
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captioning um which that would be nice
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yeah yeah but we've looked into it before it's just really expensive for no
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there saying it needs it some videos legally must have closed captioning um
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if they've been uploaded as broadcast television in the United States then
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they they must be closed captioned so for us it's just a matter of going no
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actually it doesn't I think also in Canada if it's supposed to be used as
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like a public resource yeah then I think it has to have close captioning as well
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so there's there's some there's some terms of servy funny stuff that you know
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every once in a while happens but uh
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this is this is pretty potentially pretty far reaching I mean fortunately
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it doesn't have an impact on us but what it does do is it highlights for us and I
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mean really for any online content creator once again the uh powerlessness
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that we have I mean on the one hand you
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think yeah you know internet video you know kind of freedom of expression say
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whatever say whatever you want but at the end of the day what people have to
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realize is that youtube.com is Google's playground and
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if you want to play in Google's Play ground you got to play by Google's rules
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and while this again doesn't affect us
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because we don't harass or bully people on the lus tech tips Channel because a
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well okay there are certain manufacturers that you could argue that I wasn't very nice to their product but
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that's not personal that's the product um but these terms are pretty open-ended
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yep and that's like my huge concern with it is what are they going to constitute
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as bullying are they going to constitute satire as bullying yeah because that's a
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massive concern and I think that you know I'm not like a someone who's like
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oh this is the beginning of the end for YouTube or anything but it brings up a
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lot of concerning questions um and censorship is often the lead to the
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death of a platform um so I think that as long as YouTube has the resources in
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place to actually handle this properly and they're just going to make sure that
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they review everything before they do it unlike their copyright system um they
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don't have a great history of doing this uh as long as they handle it properly I
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think it's a good thing for the platform because let's be honest lately there has
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been a lot of questionable content on the platform um but it has a huge
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potential to go bad with that said they are making strides towards improving
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these things for example um it used to be that if someone filed a copyright
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claim against you your monetization got
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pulled even though the video might stay up during the appeal period but your
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monetization got pulled so um for example the monetization would go to the
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the person who was claiming it right I don't think so in some situations I
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think if it was like uh someone who Auto detection of Music yes but depending on
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what it was sometimes Monet and I've had monetization just pulled for other
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reasons okay during a dispute or an
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appeal period for example um this is this is actually a great example it's an
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older one now but I'm just going to I'm going to pull up the video because this
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was I was so freaking mad about this at
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the time obviously it's water under the bridge at this point I love my YouTube
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overlords um we love you please don't shut us down yeah please don't please
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don't shut down my channel but check this out so this is one of my older
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videos this is back from uh 2012 and I
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have no idea how loud this is for you guys but this is my unboxing of the
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original razor blade so let's go ahead and full screen this
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baby yeah check that out it was a what was it a 15 17 something like that yeah
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it was a big old thing it had like this weird weird uh this was called the
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switchblade interface so razor blade thin and light
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gaming notebook featuring and you guys can't read all the way over here because
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we're covering it here I'll just move us featuring switchblade unboxing so what
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happened with this video was that YouTube actually flagged it
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automatically for Dangerous content containing
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weapons so I'm going to pull up um I'm
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yeah yeah so I'm going to pull up the the analytics for this video and I'll
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I'll explain exactly why I was so upset
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about it so the way that my compensation structure worked at NCI at the time was
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um I had a monthly quota for how many videos I had to make mhm um so I think
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it was as high as 45 at one time 45
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unboxings was like my quota and I got a flat rate and it was it was very little
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it was like $10 per unboxing or something like that like it was it was a
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pretty low r or like $15 or something um but remember the production values
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weren't what they are now it was like it was one shot me and my wife camera okay
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sometimes there were two shots if you made a mistake sometimes there weren't
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two shots if I made a mistake so let's be careful with how we say the two shs
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ended up in the video back in the day if lonus made a mistake sometimes it was
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the person behind the camera waving frantically going stop stop stop and
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then the shot would cut and then you'd come back and go okay actually uh yeah I
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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
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think it's bad now yeah um so let's go let's pull up my
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analytics for this video here and uh and I will show you guys why I was so upset
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because okay so I got a flat rate for the videos that I made and then what I
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also got was a cut of the YouTube
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AdSense so that was how we ended up with
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ads on the videos so here are the first
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um I don't know however many days this is like 20 20 days some of this video it
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got pulled immediately because of the word
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switchblade and in the first five days
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for me in 2012 okay like 70 80,000 views like how
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many views is this about 80 to 990,000
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views in the first week was unheard of
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that was a big deal that was like huge for me um also the cpms I believe were
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higher on the platform at the time and and a variety of other reasons why this
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was really upsetting but I it just got pulled it just got completely pulled I
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got nothing for it and even though like my appeal was like yo this is clearly a
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laptop computer and nothing to do with razors nothing to do with blades and
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nothing to do with switchblade knives um hey put this back but they
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would just turn the monetization off and it's just gone poof so the point of that
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really long story was they're improving they're getting better true but
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uh it's not perfect yet and uh and I
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totally totally hope that they don't screw this up all right speaking of
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screwing things up the original article here is from polygon and I'll let uh
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I'll let Nick go ahead and introduce this topic here haven't even read this
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one you haven't read this one okay this is a Colton topic that's fine we'll jump
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into this one that's cool um so last Friday twitch filed a lawsuit against
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seven individuals organizations that are in business of selling Bots uh these
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Bots are designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts
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of twitch streamers uh they are a persistent frustration in the words of
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their marketing senior vice president Matthew dietro uh uh and they have
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announced that they are now creating a very real problem on the platform so
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these Bots have been used to deny deny streamers Partnerships or harass other
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broadcasters and twitch employs techn technological solutions that detect and
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remove false viewer or Bots currently um so the lawsuit represents a third layer
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in their strategy against bots here and
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uh yeah among the allegations there are federal trademark infringement unfair
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competition cyber squatting fraud breach of contract and torous interference so
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they're seeking injunctions against the bot makers including the transfer of the
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possession of their domains they're ordering barring payment processors from
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uh providing them with service and restitution legal fees and punitive
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damages I mean Bots are a huge problem
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for pretty much any platform that is
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trying to monetize uh views or ad Impressions
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because I mean there are a reason that I
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don't know if you know this but the the Google AdSense terms of service
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basically do not care why bot traffic is
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viewing ads on your site so this is like a really scary thing this is not
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actually why we lost our Google um our Google AdSense account that had to do
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with people posting uh racy images on
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the Forum pictures lewd pictures on the Forum that like buried in a thread of
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you know four was like a 400 page desktop wallpaper thread and it's like
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you know you need to be moding
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like yeah yeah it is what it is so that's that's why you don't see Google
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ads on the Linus Tech tips for anymore but but this is an interesting
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interesting fact is that their terms of service don't give a crap why there are
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Bots viewing them or why there are Bots clicking on the ads they are going to go
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after you with a shoot first ask questions later approach you'll get cut
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off and you will it will be up to you to prove prove that someone else was
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maliciously coding Bots and creating
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bots to browse and click on your ads so like that because it really it hurts the
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value of Google's product for that for their purposes that approach makes sense
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because if the burden of proof is on them and they have no way to prove
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whether or not it was you that was botting because let's be honest they don't nope then they can never take it
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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
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there's Bing and the reason why Bing is a huge issue is because like Ela said
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when you're trying to sell a product like an ad if there are rumors out there
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even that you know some of the ads are being boted the advertisers are coming
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after you and going why am I paying you for nothing yeah paying for absolutely
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nothing I mean with twitch it's more complicated because I mean you can't
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just go you know oh twitch streamer X Y
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or Z you know uh yo you're banned from
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the platform until because I mean malicious actions towards twitch
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streamers that have nothing to do with them you know so common you know whether
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it's as as silly as you know fake pizza
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deliveries or you know getting into a
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much more malicious territory things like swatting um this is a huge thing
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it's something about that community that
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thinks you know trolling the onair personality is somehow appropriate
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so for twitch to come in and start going heavy-handed like anyone who has Bots
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viewing their stream you know you're you're banned you're cut off your partnership you know your your
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subscriber revenue is getting withheld I mean that would be grossly unfair yeah
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so the the the issue is so multifaceted
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on Twitch too because as a new viewer to
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a game you're going to click on probably one of the top broadcast asers within
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that game category so if someone's botting they're not only trying to get
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more ad Revenue by displaying a higher view count they might even just be trying to get more exposure to get
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featured or or whatever it is so yeah it's just such a I mean like
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what I'm trying to say is maybe the person who's botting isn't even doing it
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maliciously maybe they're trying to help the content creator in their own
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Disturbed way which is terrible by the way yes please don't do that that's like
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the worst thing yeah yeah click fraud
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um view fraud any kind of any kind of fraud is so hard for a content creator
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especially a smaller one I mean for
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actually this is a great opportunity for me to get into um to get into what
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happened with our Amazon Associates account but anytime a content creator
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runs a fowl of a much larger entity
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whether we're talking about Google Amazon twitch owned by Amazon um
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speaking of much larger entities it can be so hard and I
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understand the reasons for this I mean you got you got to think about it like a
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program like um you know an Amazon Associates or like the Creator
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management team at a company like Google which is like you know so there's
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alphabet and then there's Google and then there's YouTube and then there's
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like sales and marketing and content
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acquisition and content development and then there's this tiny little team like
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talent management and there are literally millions of creators in some
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cases at least hundreds of thousands that much we know for sure so for even
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someone like me where I would like to think that I'm fairly significant I
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think I'm in the top 500 and change of
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YouTubers um let's say top 600 to be
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safe even for me getting in touch with a partner manager took until about a year
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in change ago just to give you guys some
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idea that was how long it took them to reach out to me get this they reached out to me about the Techquickie channel
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did I tell you that yeah they weren't actually reaching out about the lonus
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tech tips Channel we completely slipped through the cracks let's be fair though
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the like the contact email on that on
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that channel is extremely messy so like
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it's possible no no I would have noticed it's possible I get notifications on my
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phone for every email all right all right I would have noticed okay I I was
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like wow they talked to me oh be still
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my heart so um so especially for a small
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content creator anytime so okay anyway it's really small teams managing this
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stuff they only have so much bandwidth to manually review things so a lot of
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this stuff is done by automated systems and to get someone to review it has to
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be done in a priority fashion so so if you have 500 subscribers on YouTube Good
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Luck like I lost my channel four and a half years ago took me over a month to
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get it back it took YouTube literally five years to ever get in touch with me
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about anything um and when uh so getting into the
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Amazon thing when I was found to be in
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breach of Amazon's Associates terms of service my appeal process was basically
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yo can we talk about this on the phone yo no no
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um Good Luck elsewhere so it is so it
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can be pretty tough now with that said so so leading back into because you know
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we consider ourselves to be something of a of a key online
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video program when it comes to technology um and I know a few people
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who know a few people who know a few people who were willing to stick their
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necks out on my behalf um I do actually
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have some news to share uh as far as the whole Amazon thing goes um so last week
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I did announce that Amazon Associates
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our Amazon links were were dead our
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account was dead and everything was dead um since that time I have managed to get
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on the phone with someone and it looks like we are going to work together to
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move forward I've actually got some some notes that uh that I put together about
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sort of what what has exactly G on so it
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was pointed out to me that anyone is allowed even unless you've been found to
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be like clearly maliciously abusing the
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program um anyone is allowed to change their business model and to a compliant
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business model and reapply um so we've actually been
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approved as of yesterday morning for a
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new account um and you know here's what
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I have to say to you guys this does mean there will be a new ID uh you won't have
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seen that anywhere yet because we're working very carefully to go through our
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everything and make sure that all of our practices all of our editors know you
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know how to call it out correctly um you know all of our writers know how to call
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it out correctly so we want to make sure that we are 100% above board because I
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do not imagine for a second that I have
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a a longer a longer leash than uh you
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know about this uh if if we were to ever
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violate the the terms of the agreement again um but here's what I'll say if
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you're a Creator out there who is using the Amazon Associates program or if
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you're looking into the Amazon Associates program CU honestly in spite
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of the stress that I've gone through in the last week uh I still highly
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recommend participating in the program it is a great great program it's a great
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way to make additional Revenue without compromising any integrity that's one of
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the things that I love about it is that because Amazon carries everything I can
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recommend something on Amazon without there being any conflict yeah because
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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
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give a crap just just go buy it there buy one yeah buy buy both um so here's
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what I'll say carefully study the terms of the agreement carefully clicking on
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all of the hyperlinks within the terms of the agreement because there are
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subterms of the agreement within the terms of the agreement review them all
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uh some of it is kind of vaguely worded
29:55
but I understand why they do this and it's to prevent abuse you can't cover
30:00
every eventuality I get that so some of the
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terminology does seem a little gray but here's the advice that I and this is my
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personal advice this is not coming from Amazon I'm making it very clear that I'm
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not affiliated with Amazon in any way other than that I am a participant in
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the Amazon Associates program that's something that they they say that you're
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supposed to say so right there you go it's in the terms of service um the way
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to read it is keeping in mind the spirit of the agreement which is that you are
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quickly buy it by clicking on a link that you provide them so if you keep
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that in mind while you read through it the rules are much easier to understand
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so uh there you have it uh we have we have learned our lesson um we were
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extraord arily lucky that we have some friends of some friends who were who
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were very generous to put their necks out and vouch for us being good people
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who were not maliciously abusing the program so huge shout out to uh to all
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the people who quietly helped us with this thank you for that and uh look
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forward to seeing more Amazon links under our videos moving
31:18
forward yay yay and another uh thing is
31:23
one of the people that I was talking to about it said like some of the people
31:26
that work in that program are are like people from all walks of life all stages
31:30
of life so some of them like don't
31:34
necessarily I guess understand the newer
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relations and stuff right so like keep
31:40
in mind that you have to just live within the terms as they're there and
31:45
and then some just in case so yeah lesson learned and uh it was a good one
31:51
Speaking of lesson learned I wonder what lessons will be
31:55
learned from this are origal Source here
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is from the bbc.com
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the United Kingdom is no longer part of
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the European Union holy actual freaking
32:11
crap asterisk it's going to take like at
32:15
least two years and the referendum is not
32:18
technically legally binding although anyone in the House of Commons that goes
32:23
against it is probably committing like career political suicide so it's
32:28
probably pretty much almost wow like definitely going to happen unbelievable
32:34
so I mean there there's a lot of incredible
32:39
stuff here like if you guys were like me you were probably glued to your phone
32:43
last night uh just looking at all the
32:46
mindblowing stats around this and and all the speculation going on but here's
32:51
a few key ones
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71.8% of eligible voters attended
33:01
I have never I mean I know that it broke
33:04
UK records but I mean does that does
33:08
that break every record it's like yeah
33:12
people cared holy crap and and and
33:16
that's with like extreme weather conditions like flooding happening yeah
33:20
so if like the weather was all good we probably would have been closer to like
33:23
75 or 80% unbelievable unheard of and
33:27
and even more crazy is just how divided
33:31
the country was so in the end it was a mere 52 to 48% vote it was incredibly
33:38
close um England was just a touch higher
33:42
uh on the leave side of things Wales was right there in the thick of things at
33:46
the average 52 and a half voted leave 47
33:50
a half stay uh Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU
33:55
which is going to have some very interesting ramifications for the
33:59
Scotland uh England relationship over the next little bit uh with Scotland
34:03
going as far as to say uh yo um we might
34:08
have actually you know done the wrong thing
34:12
when we stayed in the UK a little while ago we might be uh refering referendum
34:18
again um this is interesting okay no uh
34:23
one of my uh one of my one of my favorite keka over there sent me this
34:28
Wikipedia article on the Quebec referendum which was actually another uh
34:33
quit I guess we could call it when when Quebec voted on whether to leave Canada
34:38
and become an independent country for the first time um this was on October
34:43
30th 1995 and 93.5 2% of people turned
34:47
out to vote oh my goodness um the no option carried by 50.5% so yes there
34:52
have been closer and um like
34:58
50.5 yeah I had forgotten how close that was so okay all right thanks a prime you
35:03
you got me there you got me there wow um I I should I should have studied up my
35:07
Canadian history better so what does all
35:11
this mean first let's talk a little bit about what being a member of the EU has
35:15
meant in in purely technological terms um cheaper airfares um easier uh easier
35:23
studying and traveling and living abroad
35:26
on the mainland in mainland Europe um
35:29
cheaper uh cell phone cheaper cell phone
35:32
service so the way that the EU has cracked down on roaming charges within
35:38
uh European union members has been a huge benefit to EU countries I have I
35:43
have been to the EU um and traveling
35:47
over borders extraordinarily easy very
35:50
very cool essentially what the EU does the
35:54
European Union does is turn the partner countries into a single market
36:00
so they're essentially eliminating borders in a lot of ways for goods
36:04
Services people money um especially with
36:07
the Euro which was implemented what like 10 15 years ago something like that I
36:11
can't remember when the Euro got implemented but it wasn't like it was
36:14
not it was in my adult lifetime is like
36:18
I remember going to Paris and there still being Franks when I graduated high
36:22
school uh oh whatever um so it began
36:25
after World War II and it was all about economic
36:29
cooperation um and has and has become more than that so the overall goal is to
36:33
boost trade create jobs lower prices all right so why then did United Kingdom
36:39
residents vote to leave so they claimed they were being held back said it would
36:43
imposed too many rules on businesses and charged billions of pounds per year in
36:47
membership fees for a little return uh wanted Britain to take back full control
36:50
of its borders and reduce the number of people coming to work and live in the
36:53
country because that's one of the thing as much as many Britain have been
36:57
enjoying uh you know going and working or living
37:00
over the uh the English Channel there well the same is true of anyone else who
37:05
wants to go and live in the UK they also
37:09
objected to the move towards what they saw as the creation of a United States
37:13
of of Europe so to speak to the membership fees there was like a note
37:17
that I read where I think in
37:20
201415 you know the fiscal year 20145 um the the UK was charged
37:27
something like 8.8 billion pounds in
37:30
membership fees and they were able to trace back about 5.5 billion pounds uh
37:38
of actual benefit for UK citizens or UK
37:42
residents um so that includes stuff like University grants housing grants Etc um
37:47
so there's a significant cost to them um
37:50
for actually being a part of the union and that cost is essentially absorbed by
37:54
some of the other members of the Union that contribute a bit less
37:58
so yeah I can I mean empirically I can
38:02
kind of understand the argument there but that's looking at that one statistic
38:06
in a vacuum and ignoring you know the free trade that it allows the free
38:11
travel the free you knowe movement and you know what but there's a lot of
38:15
people who don't give a crap about that that's true and for them whatever if
38:19
they just want to stay in leads or wherever and and live out their life
38:23
there then maybe it's better for them to just have a UK so uh here's a few
38:27
interesting interesting tidbits the pound has fallen to its lowest since or
38:32
fell I don't know if it stayed there actually I haven't looked recently but it fell to its lowest since
38:37
1985 um fun fact um our our
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amazon.co.uk uh affiliate uh payouts haven't been cashed in a really long
38:46
time I heard yeah so so we actually like
38:51
just lost uh like like a really long time I know so we just lost like a lot a
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couple ,000 lb or something I think a lot yeah a lot I don't know how much
39:00
exactly but it's a lot I don't know how much exactly but it's like it's like not
39:04
insignificant so thanks for that brexit
39:07
um the treasury forecaster rise between 7 and 1.1% in mortgage borrowing cost so
39:14
like that might not seem significant but I think it works out to somewhere around
39:18
1,000 pounds a year extra ouch and like
39:22
possibly years added to your mortgage so like compound interest dog that's
39:28
sucks like yeah where the hell did this
39:31
come from emergency pun the EU now has
39:36
one GB more space I did not put that there whoever
39:42
did whoever did is fired so it's pretty
39:45
funny though it was probably ghost so you can't technically fire him damn
39:51
it all right well that's okay one GB more space I see what
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I would open a food restaurant and it's
46:33
great because uh food restaurant American Dad actually has an episode
46:37
where the main character Stan opens what he calls the food restaurant or his food
46:42
restaurant and his food restaurant is stupid and I wouldn't open a food
46:46
restaurant like that because his served like I I don't know what it's like
46:49
chocolate dipped chicken wings or whatever like just just dumb stuff um so
46:54
my food restaurant would be kind of like
46:58
um kind of like what I think restaurants like Whit spot try to do where they'll
47:04
have like a chicken teriyaki dish and they'll have like a fish and chips and
47:10
they'll have like a a butter chicken so like a variety restaurant they have a
47:14
variety except the problem is that they do everything in sort of this super
47:20
non-authentic uh pandering to to you
47:23
know Midwestern you know white people
47:27
sort of way it's like you're trying butter chicken if you didn't actually want to eat butter chicken yeah exactly
47:33
so so my food restaurant would be kind
47:37
of like a like an allar All-Star team
47:40
yeah so it would it would kind of have it would have meals yeah so I don't
47:44
actually know that we would do family style dishes I think it would be individual individual meals and I would
47:49
want those individual meals to like like it would I would kind of say okay we're
47:54
going to have a larger than normal kitchen we're going to have to kind of
47:57
absorb some some operating overhead there um going to have to have a couple
48:01
different chefs with different backgrounds yep you'll have to have a little bit of background I think you'll
48:05
have to bring in some Consultants whenever you want to introduce a new dish because you're not going to expect
48:10
your you know cinjun specialist to all of a sudden be able to whip up an
48:14
amazing thae dish but I would say okay
48:18
let's absorb some extra operating overhead here and let's be able to put
48:22
together kind of set set meals so that
48:25
any group people can come and dine and
48:29
you know if I'm going out with you know
48:32
um like a like a Taiwanese partner or something I can take them there and they
48:37
can get some you know some dims or some
48:41
you know Singaporean style H and chicken or whatever and I can have a burger and
48:46
both of those things will legitimately be somewhat authentic and good that
48:49
would be the objective of my restaurant okay what would your restaurant be I I'm
48:53
curious now I don't I don't think this is very on topic but that's okay I'm
48:57
curious that's okay I mean it's a similar Thing Luke and I actually talked
49:01
about this like a while ago and essentially what we came up with was
49:05
like there's very like Americanized
49:08
dishes in each culture yep so like sweet
49:12
and sour pork from Chinese food chicken teriyaki californ chicken California
49:16
roll essentially having like Canadian
49:20
food just being like the variety of
49:23
other cultures of food that we all bring together and call Canadian food because
49:27
we have a lot of awesome cultures here with a lot of awesome food yeah that's true especially Vancouver it's great
49:31
actually there was another great restaurant idea that I had a while back
49:35
um I would want it to be like an icebreaker restaurant I think I'd call
49:39
it ice breakers um and the idea around
49:43
here they think it was a hockey themed restaurant a hockey themed sports bar
49:47
Ice Breakers with a z like we serve only Club Seal you know
49:52
um wow so my restaurant actually this
49:56
was another really good idea I thought that I had every dish would be really
50:00
awkward to eat so like a plate of
50:04
spaghetti that is one long noodle right
50:07
um and the idea would be that you would go there with a date yeah knowing that
50:11
no one is going to be able to perfectly
50:15
consume every meal without getting something dribbling down their ARM or on
50:19
their chin or whatever there's like an ad uh that somebody pretty much like did
50:24
that really except what it was was they were like okay were going to pair these
50:27
people up and then the person like they had to feed each other the food so they
50:32
found like food that both people liked and they had to feed each other the food
50:36
on like a first date so it was like awkward but not essentially fun um
50:41
people in the chat are just spamming rx480 I don't know what I'm supposed to
50:46
say about it yeah there's rumors yeah which we can't talk about so here's the
50:50
thing um actually this is this is a good topic uh why aren't we talking about RX
50:56
480 because we do talk about pre-release Hardware rumors very frequently yeah so
51:02
we're not talking about it because we know the
51:05
answer we can talk about rumors when we
51:09
don't know the answer but once we've signed a non-disclosure agreement that
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says we are going to independently evaluate the product that is not going
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to affect the way that we look at this product but we are not going to say
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anything about it until such time as the
51:25
broad release of information is allowed to go out as specified by in this case
51:30
AMD um so once we've signed that we can't talk about it until it's time to
51:34
talk about it so a lot of people have asked you know why is it that every Tech
51:39
channel has a video on the GTX 1080 at exactly the same time that is why and
51:44
some people wonder why embargos are in place and they're like oh this is you
51:49
know it must be because companies are paying people to do a review or
51:52
something like that it's so that there's Fair competition in the review Market
51:57
it's so that we don't get an advantage from being lus Tech tips and having you
52:01
know 2.7 whatever subscribers um or that weed a card first
52:07
or that we don't end up with a disadvantage because we're in Canada
52:10
California and our card gets you know held by Customs for 3 days or something
52:15
like that so by having usually it's anywhere from about 5 on the very low
52:20
end which is very frustrating uh anywhere from about 5 to about 12 days
52:25
usually that's how long you have with a product so that allows enough time for
52:29
something to go wrong like you know for someone's kid to to get sick and need
52:34
some chicken soup or whatever um for something to go wrong and for you to
52:37
still get your your coverage out at the same time as everyone else apparently I
52:42
said 2.7 subscribers thank you twitch chat 2.7 million subscribers I think you
52:47
said 2.7 whatever subscribers so you you you didn't remember it was Millions but
52:51
you knew it was something so good job I mean I thought it might be billions and
52:55
then SP speaking of good job cable
52:58
company overcharges might be even worse than you realize the original article
53:03
here is from RS Technica man I love those guys look at that flying sheet of
53:08
money and the other flying sheet of money and the other flying sheets of
53:12
money but this image is not about Freedom this image is about getting
53:16
fleeced by your cable provider especially if you're an American not
53:21
that I believe for a second that it's any better anywhere else so a senate
53:24
report Compares billing and and service records and finds massive overcharges
53:30
who the cable companies oh my goodness who would have thought not Charter and
53:34
its new subsidiary Time Warner Cable have apparently been overcharging
53:38
customers at least 7.2 million per year
53:42
for equipment and service the investigation is found so Time Warner
53:46
Cable overbuild customers Nationwide and estimated
53:52
$639,950 how did they get an estimate that goes right down to the single
53:55
dollar anyway between January and April
53:59
of this year uh and these problems are
54:03
bad because neither company had been issuing automatic refunds or credits to
54:08
overcharged customers so during the six and a halfe
54:13
time period examined by the committee TWC and Charter made no effort to trace
54:17
equipment overages to their origin unless customers specifically asked them
54:21
to and did not provide notice or refunds
54:25
to customers Comcast has in the past overcharged customers but they do a much
54:29
better job at issuing refunds apparently than Time Warner cable Comcast told the
54:34
subcommittee that it only had a billing error rate of.
54:37
3% Comcast told them so it must be true
54:41
Time Warner Cable will begin investigating the overcharges only if
54:45
customers bring it to their attention so if you're a Time Warner Cable customer
54:49
give them a ring over there and I don't mean this kind of ring I mean the kind
54:53
of ring that goes yo dog SU
54:57
I mean I have a feeling that you would have to sit on like a hold for at least
55:02
two hours to get through to them well yeah there's that yeah you end up
55:05
suffering more than the $4 that you probably individually got overcharged
55:09
anyway going forward both companies will apparently provide customers with a
55:13
notice if they are overcharged that's good I wish we could
55:18
overcharge by like 7 million and just
55:23
chill with it yeah I also like I'd be
55:26
down it actually I wouldn't be down that would be totally wrong but it would be
55:29
totally wrong but it would be dope if it wasn't that was like that was the thing
55:34
that blew my mind with the uh Charter and Time Warner Cable merger or whatever
55:39
MH um where the Time Warner Cable CEO
55:42
apparently had it written into his contract that he got some obscene amount
55:45
of money should ownership of the company change three months later he was already
55:50
putting pen to paper for a change of ownership of the
55:55
company he was totally interested in bettering
55:59
the company yeah no conflict of interest
56:03
there whatsoever whatsoever you know it's funny how many inherent conflicts
56:08
of interest exist in the world um I mean
56:11
and and this is all like sanctioned stuff like you recently oh are we able
56:16
to talk about that sorry your big thing
56:19
that happened recently that's been very exciting for you and kind of crazy oh uh
56:24
like have you been are you out are you out didn't tell anyone oh okay okay we
56:28
don't have to talk about that um so am I out I what that's the
56:37
terminology okay um I'm moving I'm not
56:41
changing my sexuality or something like that which is what it sounded like you
56:45
were saying I'm moving that's the the
56:48
big news so when you deal with a realtor
56:52
okay whether you're buying whether you're leasing whatever the case may be
56:56
when you deal with a realtor ultimately there exists as far as I can
57:01
tell an inherent conflict of interest
57:05
and to be clear I have met some very good Realtors very good people but there
57:09
is an inherent conflict of interest because the seller or the leaser not the
57:15
leasy or um sell e whatever I don't care
57:19
you guys get the point so the seller or whoever's leasing the property pays the
57:24
realtor fees they they pay that sort of
57:28
on top of the or or out of the amount
57:32
not on top of sorry out of the negotiated rate that the buyer ends up
57:37
agreeing to pay so the way it works is
57:41
that let's say hypothetically a house is uh
57:45
$440,000 for example let's say hypothetically so what would happen is a
57:49
typical real estate agent uh commission is I think somewhere in the one
57:54
to quite a bit more than one I think as high as like three or 4% yeah can't
57:59
remember exact I it depends on market conditions like in Vancouver right now I
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think it's somewhere in the 1 to four whereas you know if housing prices were
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closer to1 or $200,000 it would probably be a little higher um cl to 5 to eight
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so basically what happens is the seller is responsible for paying that to their
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realtor that they have entered a a
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covenant with or whatever the case may be to represent them so that Realtor
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ultimately like there's this code of ethics or whatever which is great for
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people who actually abide by those types of codes but I've certainly met those
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who don't uh there's this code of ethics that says that they have to represent
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you and blah blah blah but the fact of the matter is they get paid no matter
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what and they get paid by the seller they get paid more if the rate is higher
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so okay if they're representing the seller then that's great but there's a
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realtor potentially and often in in many cases for the buyer as well who also
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gets paid by the seller who also gets
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paid a proportion of the amount that the property sells for and who the selling
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realtor has to split the commission with
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if there's a buying realtor present so this creates all kinds of conflicts like
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choosing a buyer which you're not supposed to do based on them being
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self-represented in which case the the Sellers realtor takes the entire
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commission versus another buyer who has a realtor who is sticking up for their
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best interest there's dual agency which is like the the most broken thing ever
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where one realtor represents both par becoming super illegal in like most of
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Canada because it's incredibly messed up not here yet that's for sure um where
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basically there's these negotiating there's these negotiators on both side
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both of whom it is in their best interest to flip through properties as
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quickly as possible at as high a rate as possible and I to believe as a buyer
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especially that this is somehow in my best
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interest good luck fortunately my realtor is actually the dad of someone
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that my wife went to high school with and like their families know each other
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and so there's there's some trust there um and he is he has not he has not
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steered me wrong um which is which is good but anyway uh let's move on to this
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fantastic article over here on polygon Counter Strike player files suit against
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valve over illegal gambling surrounding
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CS go very interesting I mean it was a
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matter of time yeah before skins and
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match I mean you've already got match fixing so you're as close to real
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gambling as you can be before being declared real gambling that only adults
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can participate in you know age of majority and all that stuff that goes
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along with normal gambling sites and gambling participation and gambling
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establishments there was also something that happened recently
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um I'm trying to find
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it something along the lines of one of the betting sites had a deal with a
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streamer where they would tell him like when he was going to win so that he
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would bet higher on those and then like freak out when he won um essentially
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just the scummiest thing I've ever heard of so creating more glamour around the
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practice of of betting um so Connecticut
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resident Michael John McLoud has filed a suit currently seeking class action
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status and I don't actually see that being a difficult thing to achieve here
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against valve and three skin gambling and selling sites and the complaint
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alleges that valve knowingly allowed and has been complicit in creating
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sustaining and facilitating a market where players and third party tra third
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uh and excuse me where players and third parties trade weapon skins it continues
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that they knowingly allowed supported Andor sponsored illegal gambling by
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allowing millions of Americans to link their individual steam accounts to third
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party websites that's that's interesting
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because I mean you know there's plenty of legitimate uses for valves login
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credentials being valid on a thirdparty website like oh say for example I don't
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know Linus Tech tips Forum where you can use your steam credentials and all the
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encryption and account management is done over on valve side we never even
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get it we just get a hash or a token or whatever and you can use your your valve
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two-factor authentication all that good stuff um so there's plenty of legit uses
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for that but I can see where kind of coming from here uh in the Esports
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gambling economy this is further further allegations Skins are like casino chips
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that have monetary value outside the game itself because of the ability to
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convert them directly into cash it also alleges that some third party CSCO
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websites don't require age verification which allows miners to bet as
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well Bloomberg has reported that CSCO skin gambling is currently a$2 billion
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industry so in some valve owns the
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league sells the casino chips and
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receives a piece of the casino's income stream through foreign websites in order
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to maintain the charade that valve is not promoting and profiting from online gambling
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wow uh oh I mean I'm not a legal
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expert we should get like that should be added to our lower third actually just
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permanently not a lawyer next to next to my Twitter handle it should just say not
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not a lawyer at Linus Tech Linus Tech yeah um but I got to say that sounds
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from just a sort of like a rational reasonable person who's been observing
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kind of this weird environment over the last few years that sounds not quite
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bulletproof but pretty
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compelling yeah it's not great everyone everyone
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twitch shats like sell your skins sell your skins now get out I
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honestly since it's the Tulip bubble of the 1800s or whatever since this whole
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thing began I mean I was always kind of
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questioning it because it's like huh don't you normally have to get like
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licenses to gamble and stuff yeah it's
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like pretty tightly regulated in Canada you have to spend a certain amount of
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your income on anti-gambling advertisement like this is a really
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tightly regulated industry B deal like a
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huge deal and you know they've they've gotten away with it for so long just
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because I think people don't really understand like the people who would
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come after them don't really understand what's happening so this might shed a
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bit more light on that um because yeah
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it is not a good thing in my opinion I mean it's just it's so
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accessible cuz it's literally using something that you get as a drop
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potentially in a game that you've paid for and you're playing to get you tied
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into into it mhm and whether valve agrees or not that they are quote
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unquote facilitating it I mean I think there's an argument to be made there
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again not a lawyer don't understand law
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very well at all M but I think that there is an argument to be made against
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valve in this situation so we'll be interesting to see what
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happens that's for sure to be clear no means no you said you didn't know the
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law very well I'm just making sure you're at least aware of
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that I'm just I'm going to have all sorts of stuff on my Twitter
65:29
about yeah I'm just I'm not oh yeah you
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can you can find him at Nick LMG or something like that is that is that
65:36
right or is there an underscore in there no that sounds Nick LMG all right so
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Microsoft will use steam to sell Windows games not just its own store wow a move
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for Microsoft that actually looks like they actually care very nice original
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article here is from RS Technica um and
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a couple of their latest um blah blah blah blah blah blah a couple of their
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latest games so Forza 6 Apex and Killer Instinct have done well on the store but
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Quantum break did not so maybe they're
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kind of going oh gee maybe we don't have to be the only store that sells our
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games maybe we could give someone else a cut although valve does take a very significant cut um but Phil Spencer said
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Microsoft will ship games on Steam again and noted that while some game releases
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have done well in Windows store um Quantum break wasn't our best PC release
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and Gears of War Ultimate Edition was okay
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awesome I'm excited because I almost
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play nothing that isn't on Steam it is
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so convenient it's like it's prohibitive to not have your game on Steam
66:39
nowadays it just feels like steam is the way to game I mean I guess there's
66:45
blizzard Battle.net or whatever but still you can still
66:50
technically launch those games through Steam you just have to yeah actually set
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it up yeah um we've got a a couple other sort of Rapid FY topics here uh SanDisk
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made an iPhone case with built-in storage up to 128 gigs of extra storage
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all it does is bulk up the phone surprisingly little actually not that
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badly and instead of investing in additional $300 or whatever it is to get
67:14
an iPhone with that amount of storage you can just have a bumper case on it
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that has a little bit more bulk at the bottom by the lightning connector so
67:21
that there can be a power pass through and so that it can have a data interface to that storage and
67:26
off you go the one problem with this is that you will be limited to USB 2 speeds
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but uh it requ requires a companion app
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um it can only store certain things it backs up your camera roll uh does
67:39
password protect your photos and any files that have that that are on there
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so that's nice uh and you can also get a battery pack on it for an extra 40 bucks
67:46
yeah 1,00 milliamp battery pack I mean that will turn your iPhone 6s into like
67:50
a bit of a brick but uh 32 gigs of storage is 60 bucks uh 64 gigs is 100
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and 128 is 130 see this by the way apple
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is how pricing for additional flash storage should
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work yeah g yeah it's kind of messed up um
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yeah I guess there's I don't know there's like some iPhone 7 rumors or
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something I'm not really sure how much I care about that uh there were a couple
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other things that I thought were pretty pretty interesting where did they go uh
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you know what now let's call that it for the day thanks for watching W show and a
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huge thanks to Nick you guys uh again you can find him over at Nick LMG over
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on Twitter I'm going to post that in the uh I'm going post that in the twitch
68:38
chat let's hope I don't have any lewd tweets on there yeah let's hope you
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let's hope you don't um Google might shut me down thanks for watching guys
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we'll see you again next week same bat Time same bat Channel
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byebye thanks for watching why is everyone talking about g2a what they do
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I mean I'm sure like they're the same as always and
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people are posting videos about it like they have forever and nothing's going to
69:08
happen like forever unless there's been
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a change which I don't think there has
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right yeah okay people wanted us to talk
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about iPhone 7 okay um fine
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um iPhone 7 rumors expected to be a revision of iPhone 6 wow is that really
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a note on this okay forget it it doesn't have a
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headphone jack that's the rumor
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surprise