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3 daysbuying the PC required that they fill in a form and have their drivers license scanned, connecting their name to their purchase.
What if the buyer decides to sell the system or its GPU second-hand years later and that person then sells it overseas? What if the system is stolen and ends up abroad?
One comment on the thread also claims that Micro Center also won’t sell an RTX 5090 to a customer if they’ve ever bought one in the past.
Sounds like ITAR or EAR. Assuming EAR: Welcome to the minefield that is buying a firearm. If it winds up overseas and someone decides to throw the book at you then it’s a federal felony. With that driver’s license scanned I’m sure it’ll be protected very well, so there’s no need to worry. If you got a prebuilt through Costco, your purchase probably got recorded through their membership system (or that information could be reported retroactively if the rule is new).
I remember this being an issue for the Playstation 3 (or was it 2) back in the day. Is there anything more recent than the 5090 that this has been applied to?
So Space Cowboys 2, except
- Everybody passes the physicals just fine, but all decide to quit instead of going through the onboarding process
- The young punk bad guys in the movie are secretly trying to get an LLM to redesign it, but can’t because the Blackbird was a skunkworks program and some key
principalprincple either never got written down or DOGE cut the funding to restore the microfiche with the details so all the details got destroyed
EDIT: Spelling.
An investment that would pay off if the tech industry went to hell would be Put options on QQQ (an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ-100). You have to get both the timing and the drop correct, and better funded groups with much faster computers AND the ability to make trades to prop up the market while they unload their shit will be competing against you (every options trade has an opposite side and most of them expire worthless). Watch the movies Margin Call and The Big Short for research as much as playing the lottery can be researched (they’re good movies so it’s time well spent anyway). Make a movie night out of it and watch The Other Guys which was directed by the same guy who directed The Big Short. Watch through the end credits.
I didn’t read the article because gizmodo, but as other people here have said, Dr. Burry (he’s played by Christian Bale in The Big Short) often thinks things are going to go south, and there’s usually reason to think so, but in general as Warren Buffett could easily have said, “stonks only go up.” NVDA, AAPL, and MSFT make around 15% or so of the entire world stock market and around 20% of the US market. Nobody’s going to let them collapse and even without the AI craze they still have all the other stuff to fall back on. Thumbs will go on the scale to an extent even greater than the 2008 collapse.