Cutting the nose to spite the face.

Yep. That's Iran. Being stupid since ... well, forever.

Can we get this law applied to scalpers of GPU's? This crap is insane.

And then there is that one transaction that Satoshi did with Hal with an IP address in Southern California.

I agree with all of this ... My eight year old loves the class and making the various games. He is so proud to show off his work every week and he is learning quite a bit about logic and so on.

I agree that the marketing is somewhat deceptive but...whatever the other coding camps were not as good. I tried 4 different ones. WhiteHatJr was simply the best coding camp that I have come across.

As far as the phone call spams...After I told them to stop, they stopped and they have not contacted me at all unless I contact them.

YMMV

I think that this is the biggest difference between AMD and Intel and, for that matter, one of the reasons that corporate boards should look towards longer term horizons than short term growth.

Whereas Intel has been focused on immediate ROI with their monopoly positions - shrink die, increase yields with the same performance for years...AMD was focused on producing something innovative and new. This is something that can take as long as a decade to deliver upon. Most boards would choke and sputter at such a concept but this is what true innovation, in some cases, requires. Innovation can't always occur within a single quarter. So many boards are so laser focused on quarterlies that they become innovation immune.

For those reasons, I would argue that only companies that have a focus on a horizon longer than a year will end up ultimately successful.

I'm really wondering how many people really take the time to break down their PC, rip the cooler and processor and install a new cooler and processor?

I get it that AMD is taking a lot of these precautions due to these architecture changes that they introduced and it seems like they're willing to do the right thing for board owners but why is this such a huge deal to warrant all this bickering?

Are there really hundreds of thousands of people that will yank a processor, throw it away and install a new processor on their board?

Remember when the government sued Zimmerman over arms trafficking? Good times...

Considering that this is precedent ... I wonder why the FSF or ACLU hasn't sued based on this and to cite the 2nd amendment ...

Here's a theory. A virus-infused bat escapes from the lab and is sold at the market.

I can see it now ... After millions of licensing agreements uploaded to DoNotSign...SkyNet has become self aware and issued the ultimate licensing agreements for human wetware.

This actually reminds me of another famous statement by another famous company ... Coke’s lawyers had made a remarkable argument: “At oral argument defendants suggested that no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

I still remember "Dark Mode" for C64...

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Government: Nothing to see here... it's just swamp gas and weather balloons.

Rest of the world: Hmm.

Not that this comment will likely be seen as valuable - go ahead and downvote me to oblivion ... but there are several points that are raised that are completely overlooked.

With 95% of human work completely automated, who stands to gain from the benefit of such automation? Presently, the system will only reward the elite investors for this whereas the other 95% will simply not have anything. Furthermore, the concept of "wealth" also needs to be redefined. There is an asteroid in the asteroid belt that is worth more than all the money on the planet. If it were brought here and park offshore of San Fransisco, the monetary system would be completely destroyed.

What UBI and other economic indicators of today simply show is that the system needs to be re-engineer. Of all people, I would expect that the engineers of Slashdot would be more welcoming of a challenge to redefine how the economic systems of today operate. After all, it is simply a matter of observing inputs and outputs and perhaps a few transforms here and there. If the Slashdot engineers can devise such amazing systems as the internet, ecommerce and so on, why not a better economic system as well?

Andrew Yang is simply pointing out a bug in the system that UBI basically toys with but does not fix. How can we devise a better economic system that allows for automation and the distribution of wealth from the solar system? That is the real question that can and must be answered if we are to survive as a species.

It is likely that Nvidia will discontinue graphic card production over the long run. Their focus on long term productivity gains will be in AI-based markets.