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This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

This stinks of "bro culture". Both the clip I watched with the joke, and some of the replies in this thread.
 
My opinion is that it is very poor taste to joke about these kinds of things in general, and especially when you work at a company accused of sexual harassment. It's not a good look and comes across as
1) not taking the situation seriously (maybe they think everyone has forgotten?) and
2) lacking self awareness. 
But I also find the overall humor of LTT to be very cringe and boring as well so maybe I am not the target demographic. "haha they said the same joke for the 100th time xD" "LOL 69, that's the sex number!", "lttstore.com lttstore.com lttstore.com xD". 
 
 
Anyway, I am getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the "watch something else" responses. It's such a cop out answer because you could say that about basically anything, and it doesn't address the actual complaints. People use it as some kind of card they pull when they can't actually respond to the criticism raised but they still feel like they need to defend some company/person. If you don't like this thread then stop reading it. See how stupid it is? It's basically like telling someone "shut the fuck up". It's not a clever responsive, it doesn't address anything said, and it is rude. 
 
 
People need to stop thinking that people who complain are some kind of enemy. Complaints oftentimes comes from a place of love. OP is an LTT viewer and raised their opinion on how LTT can improve their content. That's not something you do maliciously. It's the people who don't think any criticism is valid and will always lick the boots of whichever company or person they have an unhealthy obsession with that are the real danger. You might not agree with their opinion, but if that's the case then say that. Don't say "you are not welcome here if you don't like the same things I like, and I like everything X does". 

That might explain an investor presentation they did earlier this week. I wrote more about it at link below, although I focused on the tech more than the financials.
 
Without looking at the latest results, they did say they were reorganising how they're reporting foundry results. Before, product design teams ate some of the costs, but now foundry is more separated. Be aware it might not be a like for like comparison. They've been doing a lot to get their fabs up to speed and it isn't cheap. Getting the newer nodes going will save them money so that "loss" today is investing for the future. The more you spend, the more you save. Wait, wrong company 😄 
 
In short, I don't feel this is significant at all as long as it puts them in the right place going forwards.
 
 

food, skin, hair, dust, assorted detrius.
 
crap.

It's not a situation where it is either Apple or pharmaceutical companies. They could do both. What you are doing here is called a "fallacy of relative privation".
But it is most likely easier to tell Apple "hey, stop deliberately making it hard for users to leave your ecosystem" than it is trying to reform the field of medical research. Making changes to IP law for medical stuff could have devastating effects as well if not done carefully and correctly. Telling Apple that they have to support RCS, or telling Apple to stop restricting what developers can communicate to their users for example is way easier and far less risky.

So we should just give up. and have an even more illiterate population who will not have the skills for high value jobs to give back to society with. 


So true that every dollar invested in school does not come back 3-10x in terms of increased GDP, so true man. 
There are SOME dumb people, and some smart people who do dumb shit as a kid, so investing in education, totally not worth it. Im tots with you man. They don't do any good. 

Congratulations on not understanding.  I never said you WERE, I was saying people saying tax write-off is implying that's what they mean and your rant mischaracterizes as those people as instead of an accusatory/joking thing as being a pleb who doesn't understand tax [which I think a large chunk do know what they are saying, you just lack understanding or deflecting what they are saying]
 
Your explanation isn't fine, because there are already 2 people in this thread who refer to your comment on tax write-offs; when JRE's case is 100% something a tax write-off can help with.  Your simplification and accusation that those using the word tax write-off don't know what they are talking about is causing more of an issue.
 
Your answer as well isn't right either, as you MISS the general statement; you misconstrue the reasoning to the extent that people watching get the wrong idea of what a tax write-off is.  While missing the obvious answer, the answer being "I didn't write off anything associated with the pool", instead of making a clip that doesn't actually explain the general idea of a tax write-off.
 
To put the car example, yes making a statement "cars can only be driven by their owners" is wrong if you made that statement in response to comments like "bet he didn't get the owners permission to drive it like that".
 
It's also not "light tax fraud", the fact that you read what I wrote and thought it's "light tax fraud" is actually worrying.  It's a VERY common practice that ACTUALLY costs the government billions each year.  The witnessing the writing off of a $100k+ vehicle is not something I call "light tax fraud".  The statement that IT's a COMMON practice isn't directly accusing you, it's saying it's a very prevalent practice and so people seeing you making videos it's a joke/accusation by them that it's to write off taxes.
 
I'm not accusing you, but you are a public figure who posts videos online and has shown that while separate legal entities there is still close ties between personal and company wide resources; of course you are going to have people who make assumptions or think you might fall into a category
 
But hey you want an accusation:
Your team is either mischaracterizing the pricing of the cable, isn't doing proper due diligence, or you provided the wrong link and despite myself pointing out that the cable in question costs too much vs what is stated IT STILL isn't corrected
 
Yes, I am aware that legally you can only declare a portion of it, although if you did something specific for the sake of the video those expenses would be considered to be fully a business expense.  That is however not what Linus stated, his statement is effectively that it cannot be a business expense no matter how many times he films in it which is factually wrong.
 
What I am also stating though is that there are lots of people who actually do write off more than what is allowable, which is where the whole "tax write-off" portion is coming to.  It's not that people misunderstand what a tax write-off is, there is either a joking (seriously at a former work we used to always joke about it and how "hey lets just write this off" when obviously it wasn't) or an accusation.

If AMD's warranty has an exception for giveaways then it's on the person giving the item away. That's assuming you live in a country with no consumer protection laws that enforce guarantees on the item which would supersede any contract except where you're explicitly allowed to opt out (think business to business transactions). But there is damage in the legal eye. You've entered into a contract with the understanding that if you get drawn you'd receive a working GPU. You've been drawn and instead of receiving a working GPU you've received a faulty one. That's clear breach of contract due to misrepresentation and you have direct damages in the value of what you should have received as per the contract for entering the giveaway. Just because it's free doesn't mean there isn't consideration which you seem to have mistaken. You would have a point if no action was required in order to enter the giveaway and they chose a random person on the street as then you'd be missing consideration and there would be no contract but if you have to do something in order to be eligible for the giveaway then that's the consideration provided to form your contract. Whether that's liking a post or entering a form that action creates the consideration needed to make it a valid contract. Currently LMG have breached that contract by misrepresentation meaning a court absolutely can find damages equal to the value of what someone reasonably should have understood they would be receiving (aka a working GPU).
 
Absolutely illegal. Idk how you've gotten that mistaken about damages but maybe you've missed how consideration works in contract law?
 
Here's a plain example to explain the situation. If you enter into a contract with someone that says "If you pick up this apple and I roll a dice that lands on 5 I'll give you $100" then if they then say "Sure" pick up the apple and you roll a dice that lands on 5 you don't get to claim "No but it was free to pick up the apple" that's just ridiculous. Consideration is not at all limited to monetary values and consideration doesn't have to be equal in value to the other side of the contract. Consideration just has to be sufficient. Here's a quote from https://www.lsd.law/define/legally-sufficient-consideration that explains Sufficient Consideration.
Absolutely asking someone to enter their details in exchange for entering is consideration as it's a type of performance.
 
Again, it's illegal in multiple different ways. Not even just this one. I have 0 doubt that what has happened is illegal from LMG if they choose not to replace the GPU with a working one or compensate for the value of the GPU.

Boo hoo, you think I'm a fool; you are still ignorant and blind at what people were implying.  Your whole rant video essentially didn't address a single thing that people were implying [which is that you are using it as a tax write-off]
 
You will find that there are MANY rich people out there who WILL use little justification to declare something as a business expense. [It's the whole joke that people will "go out to dinner" and call it a "meeting"]  Are you seriously that sheltered that you don't realize that?  It goes back to my post on page 1, people know they can usually get away with things [People stretch the rules all the time, need I remind you that you operated out of a non-commercial building and were effectively forced out of the house]
 
People, especially rich people, will generate "business expenses" for personal items, I've seen it happen and am friends with enough accountants of millionaires who frequently talk about how they see it happen frequently [although they never drop names or they'd get in trouble].  Seriously, I know of one person who has labelled their 3 decked out vehicles as business expenses because they use them for "business"...sure if they get audited it would likely be reversed but it will be statute barred by the time it's likely caught.
 
Utilizing a home as a film shoot also 100% would entitle someone to write off personal tax expenses as well [S4-F2-C2].  If one were to justify that the whole room cooling was intended for the whole video concept any "costs" associated with that would classify as a business expense.  It's a whole grey area of taxes.
 
The tl;dr there can and will be people who will write it off as an expense.  Just like how there are many family businesses who conveniently hired their family and pay them just enough to not get really taxed.

I live in Sweden. Our tax system is very different. But to answer your question, I do not use any tricks or clever accounting to try and minimize or maximize the taxes I pay. 
 
 
You can dislike both the system and the people/companies that abuse the system. It's not like "I am just following the law" is a blanket statement that removes any personal responsibility and makes you immune from criticism. 
 
If the law allowed me to hit you in the face I'd still be a bad person for doing it, even if I'm just "following the law". I could simultaneously also think that the law allowing me to hit you in the face is dumb and should be changed. 
 
I'd like to think that we can hold people and companies to slightly higher standards than the absolute minimum that doesn't make them literally criminals. 

I live in Sweden. Our tax system is very different. But to answer your question, I do not use any tricks or clever accounting to try and minimize or maximize the taxes I pay. 
 
 
You can dislike both the system and the people/companies that abuse the system. It's not like "I am just following the law" is a blanket statement that removes any personal responsibility and makes you immune from criticism. 
 
If the law allowed me to hit you in the face I'd still be a bad person for doing it, even if I'm just "following the law". I could simultaneously also think that the law allowing me to hit you in the face is dumb and should be changed. 
 
I'd like to think that we can hold people and companies to slightly higher standards than the absolute minimum that doesn't make them literally criminals. 

CBT Nuggets have some good videos on their YouTube channel for free. They have a paid video service as well but I personally prefer INE if you're going the paid route. 

The SRX configuration (sanitized) and a very simple diagram would help with example IPs.

Not really, he does not go in depth in his networking vids and always has coffee interludes imo he mostly BS's the video, I think ppl would prefer youtubers who cut to the chase with no BS. For a beginner he is is fine but above that level, I would avoid him. 

Congratulations on simplifying it so much you forgot the most important detail.  Not once did I say it was a discount, you are just like Linus hand waving and making up stawman arguments.  A tax write off changes the amount of taxes you pay; which is what you just explained...are you seriously not mindful enough to realize that reducing your tax burden DOES save you money
 
Let me explain it to you simply.
 
You explained effectively what a tax write-off is.
 
A REGULAR CONSUMER CANNOT WRITE IT OFF.  So a regular consumer pays, $1000 and gets NO TAX DEDUCTIONS.
 
To put it simply again:
Person A, tax write off person:
Person A has $100,000 in his bank
Person A has $10,000 in business income and owes the government $5,000 in taxes
Person A buys a $1,000 phone for the "company" [i.e. tax write off]. 
Person A's $10000 is reduced down to $9000 business income, so actually only only owes $4500
 
So AFTER paying his taxes he has $100,000 - $1000 - $4500 + $10000 = $104,500 in his bank
 
Person B, regular person:
$100,000 in his bank
$10,000 in personal income and owes $5,000 in taxes
Buys a $1,000 phone [it's a personal phone so no writing it off]
Person B now owes $5,000 to the government still.
 
So AFTER paying his taxes he has $100,000 - $1000 - $5000 + $1000= $104,000 in his bank
 
 
NOTICE how Person A and Person B BOTH purchased a phone.  Except Person A ends up with $500 more at the end of the year than Person B.
 
You cannot argue about the fact that writing off a phone in this example SAVES 50% of the cost of the phone during taxes [assuming 50% tax rate].
 
You can try putting makeup on a pig all you want, by making an asinine argument about semantics that it's not a "discount" when I DIDN'T say it was, but ultimately it's stupid to ignore the fact that with tax writeoffs a person is ultimately saving themselves the percentage that they would be taxed at.  Plane and simple.
 
You want a more extreme example, if Linus does a tax write off his million dollar house [because he films in it].
A normal person would pay $1,000,000; and still pay taxes on their annual salary of $100,000
But a business write off on a business that is making $100,000 a year gets to write off the $1,000,000
So instead of paying $50,000 in taxes each year, they get to carry forward their "losses" and effectively pay no tax for 10 years [to the tune of $500,000 if the tax rate is 50%].  Now one might say that they can't live off a business, but what rich people can do is take loans against shares of their business thus not paying personal income taxes as they still make $0.

Read my previous post on page 1.  Linus is to put it bluntly misconstruing things.  NO ONE IS SAYING YOU GAIN MONEY.  WHAT I AM SAYING IS YOU PAY LESS TAXES WHICH OFFSETS THE EFFECTIVE COST.
 
If I personally were to buy a $1000 phone, I pay $1000 (well plus GST and PST).  That's my total cost.  At the end of the year my taxes are still the same.
If I buy a phone and "use" it with my business, I pay $1000, it's written off as an expense, so your taxable income drops by $1000.  That means if tax rate is 50% you are paying $500 less in taxes. (And depending how you've structured things you can get a GST credit).
 
Write offs don't immediately give you "money back", but they do reduce your end of year tax bill which can effectively be seen as lowering a purchase cost.
 
It's like paying $1000 at a store you always buy from and getting a $500 coupon and then telling people "but you still paid $1000"...it's stupid ignoring that there is a $500 coupon also with the purchase.
 
Again read and comprehend what I wrote before repeating Linus' illegitimate example.  Notice how I said at the end of the year you have effectively reduced the amount of tax you pay.  Or better yet, read my full blown example from Person A vs Person B here
 
There's a reason why super rich people are capable of reducing their "income" down to below poverty lines...they can exploit things like write-offs as an example.  Linus talked about the subject with what seems to be a lack of understanding about the ability to shift tax burdens to minimize taxes paid.
  
What's funny is when the parent thinks they know a word and saying people are using it wrong when they don't seem to understand it's usage.
 
Assuming I was super wealthy, making millions a year with my business.  You incorporate things into the business to "increase" expenses to the business to reduce the taxes.  It can be quite effective especially given how gov't bodies tend to want to settle if there is disputes instead of spending millions defending [the rich get extra leverage because the gov't has a duty to try recovering as much as possible in the lawsuit which means factoring in their legal fees...so it often gets settled if the person is going to put up a fight and is rich enough to draw it out through the courts[.
 
Some easy, not necessarily legal but still done, "tax write offs".  Going out to dinners, and "discussing" work for a bit.  Buying a "company car" [really personal car].  Hiring "staff", which happens to be paid just below taxable income and happens to be your kids.  Home renovation?  No it was used as part of the office.
 
Now the above really isn't strictly legal, but still likely enough in a grey area...it's also enough to greatly reduce tax burdens

It is usually a good idea to think your reasoning and arguments through so that you can explain to others how you feel and why you feel the way you do.
I tried reading your post and it is quite hard to follow your train of thought. It's almost as if you were just mad and wrote down the words as you were thinking of them. You made up statements from the "opposite side" and then answered them in your post, but never explained to the reader what those statements were.
 
It seems to me that you are claiming that these AI features are actually powered by people instead of a computer. Basically that "AI" like ChatGPT is similar to The Mechanical Turk.
 
If that is what you are claiming, then I am sorry to burst your tinfoil hat but you can actually download and run some of these models on your own hardware, without an internet connection. Chat with RTX and Stable Diffusion are two variants you can use with an Nvidia card if you don't believe me. That wouldn't be possible if it was just "poor people" doing all these things.

It is usually a good idea to think your reasoning and arguments through so that you can explain to others how you feel and why you feel the way you do.
I tried reading your post and it is quite hard to follow your train of thought. It's almost as if you were just mad and wrote down the words as you were thinking of them. You made up statements from the "opposite side" and then answered them in your post, but never explained to the reader what those statements were.
 
It seems to me that you are claiming that these AI features are actually powered by people instead of a computer. Basically that "AI" like ChatGPT is similar to The Mechanical Turk.
 
If that is what you are claiming, then I am sorry to burst your tinfoil hat but you can actually download and run some of these models on your own hardware, without an internet connection. Chat with RTX and Stable Diffusion are two variants you can use with an Nvidia card if you don't believe me. That wouldn't be possible if it was just "poor people" doing all these things.

It might have been a good idea to start a bit smaller, and also figure out what you are going to do with the hardware before buying it... 
 
For example putting a 3060 inside your current PC would have been a lot cheaper and easier.

I've not heard of this being a thing at all.

lol, bit ironic given that you used a blanket statement of "taxes are theft"...you were the one who made such a black and white simple statement and pretty much stated it was getting political; and his response in honest is a good simple response to such a simple wrong black and white take that taxes are theft.
 
Then don't make statements about who cares, because obviously people care.
 
"Legal" tax avoidance methods can often go into grey areas, and the "legal" methods that are used are often abused to the point where there's a massive amount disparity in what someone should be paying.
 
Again, as an example, people use the "legal" option of tax write offs to buy luxury cars [thus reducing the overall taxes they are submitting to the government].  If someone is rich enough to be a "billionaire" in terms of capital it's possible to avoid paying any forms of taxes if they wanted to.  So yes, many people do care because using things as a tax writeoff is exactly how many still manage to get around paying taxes.
 
  
I don't maximize the amount of taxes I personally pay, but honestly I don't go to the extremes that I could to minimize the amount of taxes.
 
The issue with taxes is that there isn't any simple way to write it; and when things are more complex there are always people who can figure out ways exploit it.