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givingtnt got a reaction from soldier_ph in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 4, 2021

Lol this is so dumb.
Bezos can't win with nasa because their bid failed, so he takes it out on them / SpaceX anywhere he can.

I hope/doubt it would pass, this seems like it's clearly just trying to cause damage as retaliation.
And it's not like the internet Starlink provides through SpaceX is a government bid like it was with NASA.. there's nothing they can do about that lol.

givingtnt got a reaction from HanZie82 in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 3, 2021

It's not like they're blocking anyone from putting things in space.
Or blocking anyone from making their own sat grid.

They came up with the idea, the plan, the work. If anyone wants to copy I don't see how they also have any rights to block the original.

givingtnt got a reaction from IkeaGnome in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 3, 2021

It's not like they're blocking anyone from putting things in space.
Or blocking anyone from making their own sat grid.

They came up with the idea, the plan, the work. If anyone wants to copy I don't see how they also have any rights to block the original.

givingtnt got a reaction from Forbidden Wafer in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 3, 2021

Lol this is so dumb.
Bezos can't win with nasa because their bid failed, so he takes it out on them / SpaceX anywhere he can.

I hope/doubt it would pass, this seems like it's clearly just trying to cause damage as retaliation.
And it's not like the internet Starlink provides through SpaceX is a government bid like it was with NASA.. there's nothing they can do about that lol.

givingtnt got a reaction from thechinchinsong in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 2, 2021

Lol this is so dumb.
Bezos can't win with nasa because their bid failed, so he takes it out on them / SpaceX anywhere he can.

I hope/doubt it would pass, this seems like it's clearly just trying to cause damage as retaliation.
And it's not like the internet Starlink provides through SpaceX is a government bid like it was with NASA.. there's nothing they can do about that lol.

givingtnt got a reaction from StDragon in Amazon trying to slow Starlink September 2, 2021

Lol this is so dumb.
Bezos can't win with nasa because their bid failed, so he takes it out on them / SpaceX anywhere he can.

I hope/doubt it would pass, this seems like it's clearly just trying to cause damage as retaliation.
And it's not like the internet Starlink provides through SpaceX is a government bid like it was with NASA.. there's nothing they can do about that lol.

givingtnt reacted to Lightwreather in New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient August 31, 2021

Summary
A team of researchers with AMD have filed a patent application that looks toward a more efficient and reliable quantum computing architecture, thanks to a conventional multi-SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) approach.

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My thoughts
Well, those are two words I did not expect to hear in a sentence together but here we are. AMD's (at least thinking of) working on quantum computing chips. Now as well all know (right?) that Patents don't always translate to a real product but there remains the possibility. Now on this tech, does this "teleportation" refer to quantum tunneling or what? But anyway, this is pretty interesting and I hope that we see some progress on this in the future.
Sources
Tom's hardware
Freepatentsonline.com

givingtnt reacted to Master Disaster in Ok you absolute legends, Youtuber Karl Jobst exposes corruption and shill bidding in the used retro video games market August 30, 2021

This is a few days old now but I feel its worth the discussion since it was only a few weeks ago we saw SMB1 break records. This is a deep rabbit hole and I'll say this once now so I don't have to type it every paragraph, everything mentioned here is alleged, the evidence is (IMO) pretty damning however this is the result of incredible investigative journalism, not any criminal investigation.

The original YouTube legend dropped this video about 5 days ago though I'll be using Kotaku as my source since its a written article and much easier to quote though I'll probably mention stuff not in the article, assume it comes from the video in these cases.

The allegations centre around two organisations, Wata Games who serve as the grading company and Heritage Auctions. Karl exposed how the people behind these 2 companies have been colluding and using fraud tactics such as shill bidding to artificially increase the price of retro video games.

Wata Games is a relative newcomer to the video game grading scene however they have positioned themselves to be the authority and are now widely considered the de facto grading house.

Heritage auctions have been around a bit longer however they are also the ones who are committing the fraud.

Lets back up to a few years ago, Pat the NES Punk is on the video and stated that he had noticed certain individuals running around all the major trade fairs buying up any and all the sealed in box games they could, didn't matter the game or condition. He said he saw this person with literal armfulls of SIB games. Karls investigation showed said person is affiliated with the man behind Wata Games.

Then we have Wata who don't really seem to be doing anything wrong, there's no accusation that they're misgrading games however the CEO is a known associate of the owner of Heritage Auctions (the two are also listed as being involved with other companies together as well).

Heres how the scam works. Wata grades the game (fairly), they then send it over to Heritage (who they have an exclusive deal with to sell their top rated games) and Heritage do one of two things. They either use shill bidding to inflate the price and sucker someone into buying the game for much more than its worth or in some cases, they actually just bid internally on the games and buy them from themselves. This pushes the market value of the games up.

Then as a slam dunk, Karl reveals that all these record breaking game sales happen to be owned by people closely associated to either Wata or Heritage. The recent record breaking SMB1 was bought 3 years ago for $30,000 by someone who is on the board of Wata and was sold for $2 million.

He then goes further and shows the person behind Heritage has been involved in this behaviour before in the late 80s, his other company was also called Heritage and he was banned for ever being a CEO for committing securities fraud in the early 90s.

Sources - https://kotaku.com/youtuber-accuses-million-dollar-retro-game-sales-of-bei-1847557296

Can't say I'm surprised. One something goes full mainstream and commercial the venture capitalists always swoop in and use their existing wealth to clean up pricing all the actual customers out of the market.

Can I also say, subscribe to Karl, guy really is a legend when it comes to fair and unbiased investigative journalism.