Everybody mad here for late in sports cards ripping 2023 tops finest baseball hobby eight box full case break number 58 pick your team We have Alex M. Tigers Alvin S. Cubs Cardinals Nationals Austin S. Giants Brian L. Rangers Carol G. Royals Chenyu H Angels Chris F Pirates Astros Chris S Brewers Chris F also has the Padres and Yankees Daniel B. Marlins Perhan a White Sox Jack S. Guardians Jason H. Braves. That's Jason H. I. Braves Jason H. A. Rays Jordan D. D. Bax Keith J. Metz Kenny K. Dodgers Chris A Red Sox Matthew R Phillies Michael S. Mariners Mike D. Orioles Nick C. Twins Robert J. Blue Jays Roger R Reds Tom C. A's and Wayne P. Rockies All right, here we go. Good luck.  This is Tatees Dr. Rookie Francisco Alvarez Rookie Refractor Adley Rookie Ohapi Rookie Arnato headliners Rookie design variation Ezekiel Tovar Corbin Carroll Rookie Refractor and Cubs Rookie Otto Caleb Killian Chicago. There's Kodai Senga Masatake Yoshida And this is Rookie Gold Refractor to 50 Garrett Mitchell. 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Thank you everybody. We have tribute coming up next


What I'm giving you really here is a third eye. We tend to look at the world, we tend to look at human behavior through what I call the dodgy pair of binoculars. One lens is market research, which assumes that people know exactly why they do things and what they intend to do and can describe their reasons perfectly and accurately. Though that ain't so. The other lens we tend to look at is the standard economic lens, which is not entirely wrong, but sometimes woefully inefficient, unimaginative, and occasionally diametrically wrong. If you look at the world through this third lens of, I would say it's a mixture of good evolutionary psychology married to a little bit of economics. What you'll suddenly do is you'll realize that there are problems that looked insurmountable that suddenly become easy. You'll also find that you can achieve enormous effects and enormous changes in outcome by changing very, very little about an input or a cue.


Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials or super beings or something that nobody saw. The visitation left in its wake six areas on the surface of the earth that have been rendered unlivable. The areas are death traps, and they are littered with alien technology, all of which is clearly broken or depleted or defective in some sort of way. The title comes from the theory that these artifacts are discarded junk. The kind of things that we humans would toss out the car door after a roadside picnic. A subculture of so-called stalkers develops people who are experienced at entering the zones and retrieving artifacts, and that's what the story is about. It's very well written. The Sturgatsky brothers are excellent writers, and I recommend this book highly. The second story here, the tale of the Troika, is very different. It's an absurdist Alice in Wonderland kind of thing. There is some amazing writing in this story as well, but it's mostly silly and kind of tedious. I want to read more by these guys though. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. And visit the 30 Seconds Sci-Fi Tumblr, that's my headquarters. In addition to my videos, I publish links and updates there every day.


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oh right and good morning we're on the we're actually as you can see it's very tough mortar now actually how can you see right it's a little update if you can't even hear me yeah it is tough mortar so that's what stadas good morning it is a Saturday morning at the Saturday of this jubilee weekend or whatever yes that yeah third of June and this is actually the start of a bigger project here eventually so today we're doing a lintel you guessed it so we're doing this one today and then eventually we're doing the ones up there is that one being done too the whole lot so this whole backs being done eventually but since we're in between concrete's jobs on the extend on one of the extensions with customers kind of let us come over and start one of the lentils so that just getting the the dust sheet ready now again kindly provided by the customer since we forgot but we're all set up to go I think we've got got our power got the receiver ready got the accros mixers ready some cements all over here's our lintel a good old angle iron got an insulation yeah I think I think we've got everything this time which makes a nice change yeah thankfully so well you know the song and dance a lintel job so I get you set up and let's just pray that this mortar's a nice and soft unlike the last one we did don't hold me breath doesn't look good right you can hear me quick update as you can see dad's in there with the reciprocal now but unfortunately it is tough mortar so what he's had to do is he's gonna cut through it with the grinder so he's got the bulk of it out and he's gonna try and get the rest of it with the reciprocal so in that way we're not knackering the blade so much but thankfully it's not as hard as the last lintel job so it just pops off but it doesn't help trying to get them out in the first place so it's just a quick update for you I'll let you here this one's putting over fight so we know when we come back for this one bringing this still so because I still so I'll give us a hundred mil cut so it's gonna be dusty but if we don't use a still so it's gonna take us all day just to get the brick out it's a pretty sure it's sand and cement or it's very strong line mix so it pops off the bricks for Alex cleaning up but it's very hard to get out so I'm just showing you this we always go three courses up so we're 150 above the well more than 150 below the lintel and look at this in the in the cavity I've not seen any sign of a tray yet but in yeah I don't it's been like there's a hole hole there where a waste pipe used to come out so obviously when that's been punched through all the shites fell down the cavity so yeah we've gone through with electric grinder which takes you probably two-thirds the way through the rest of it's just needs popping out now and we can start once I get another couple of bricks out we'll get the props up and then get the rest out and as usual it'll probably be about din time by then and then get it back in this afternoon so I'll stick you back up here on time that's again while we get this get a bit more of this out yeah catching a bit our two props are in that sides out you can see there's a RSJ on the other window I think there's an RSJ there this window don't know what we've got once to get all this muck out I'll have a look I'll probably just go over the top of this tray it's a bit too many tray so I'm not sure if it's working or not but it probably is it's not stopped a little little rust in there good old rust so yeah it's getting off at 10 o'clock it's gonna go for a quick break we've just got this section to take out then we couldn't have done this one without power tools the motor's quite tough so I've had to grind it then drill it and then rip sip or saw it so it's putting up a fight but once you get that top top joint out everything just comes out nice see it's all quite loose so usual script have a break get back break work out get everything cleaned up and start putting everything back together again so we'll see after break time and it's after break we well we dad's almost got all the bricks out now both that cruiser and I'm sure showing you already but just a little chunk left let me hop up here because I want to show you this cavity how's that it's a bit of a disgrace shall we say is that is that meant to be the tray so there's the crusty ass tray there you go and then there's a lint underneath so needless to say it's in dire need of a change and if that's what that length was like so good progress is being made thankfully just those those bottom two courses the most is coming out lovely so again again most of them ready now so so yeah I'll pass you up to dad's and you can set you up finally come to a rough gauge of how we want our mixers now because we used to just do half a mix and we'd have tons left over which would just be at like they're like two or three bags just more so now I'm going to get a little bit more this is a 2100 lintel is one big bag of fairwood sand because the big ones are 40 kilogram bags plus a tiny bit more and probably half of that bag since as you can see this is kind of a demolished and a lot of the cement's gone so half of that which will make it up to a third ish and then that sand febs in for easy mixability and better use and yeah so I'll get you set up here so I'll do that dad's almost finished so catching a minute there you have it that was a nice quick one but he messy as well that's cement bag it's evil it's split cement everywhere on me but that's roughly about how much we'll need and I put a little bit more sand in that but that's surprisingly all we need for that because it's just a few bricks and see how dad's getting on how's it looking bit cleaner is the well there you go there's the tray beautiful let's have a look at this little bit rusty isn't it yeah all it takes is a few spots to ruin the brickwork above and as as weird as it sounds it's nice to see a knack of lintel like this because it means this is no longer going to be in the house it's gonna be a nice proper galvanized steel one going in so it's always satisfying to see see these come out at least anyway but all right is that you done then with the bricks T-shaped oh yeah never seen one of them before nail it on yeah that's another thing as well we we have our cavity to trade in properly as well so that means you do with the power tools isn't it happy days so I'll clean these up well dad has a sort out and I'll get you set up yeah I think it's popped yeah so popped do I feed it out your way that might lift it back hold your fire one second let me just move mine can it spin anymore right have you got that so dad finishes off but I'll show you this is why we do these jobs look at the state of that but now to some people that might not look like much but if you look at that that rust there that's all that needs to raise the brickwork and when it raises the brickwork I'm sure that's told us a million times as we start to crack everything and get all the ugly cracks above your windows it's most likely because your lentils have rusted start to push your brickwork up so and if you look here there's that and that's what's going in so the bricks you can sit on there nicely with galvanized steel so won't rust that's half the reason when we do these replacements because we're replacing with better quality lentils that galvanize so they won't be rusting and they'll just the last way longer than their predecessors they've done the job for the longest time but around about now all these lentils are starting to rust around and start lifting stuff up that's why we've been on so many little jobs but there you go just a little why we do it mixers ready so once dad's ready get the tray in get the lentil in these bricks in and it's always nice and satisfying when all the power tools are done with because now they're all packed away some damn course there but I that's it here we go what time we're now half 11 I'm guessing and we're all ready to go everything's out everything spotless I've just spent a good half an hour cleaning up there in that cavity that was solid from lintel to about there all that section there so I don't know what's been going on up there it looks like yeah if you look at next door looks like an extra wind has been put in yeah it looks like a new window that yeah if you look at next door there's two windows on the back this one this house got three so when they put this window and they made a right shitty mess in the cavity so we've got the bulk of it out so not they weren't suffering from damp but they definitely won't be suffering from that now if you're doing this you've got it opened up when you see that take it out don't just leave it because it could come back to bite you that could start leaking after and it looks like it's your fault then plus it's just good practice to keep the cavity clean I always do that I always keep the cavities clean as I can as far as I can reach it so we're all set here now I took that half out because it was face was cracked so what I'm gonna do is spin it cut it down spin it put it back in then we're ready for lintel and cavity tray cavity tray is just going to get sealed and nailed on to the thermolite blocks 70s houses but it's got thermolites on it so ahead of its time and yeah that's it I'm not sure if that's called what called a boot lintel that Martin goes on about in the comments a lot I'm guessing that's what it is looks like a fence post but it's not so yeah we can't go into that so we're gonna go above it and we can't put an upstand on our tray here because our full bricks here so we're gonna have to do something with it let's get cracking nails brilliant little nails then meant for a gun but these are just on the floor on site so we always just pick them up put it in the bag you start right to the end to the cavity nice to tuck back in this is gonna be stuck back with silicon pointed back in so it's all nice and smooth and a bit of a corner up ready for running in trays in sealed gonna put some extra insulation there where all the shite was blocking the cavity and then a strip across there as you see we've already insulated behind the lintel so we're gonna get a quick turn now and get it all back put back in so catch after dinner three o'clock and after the last little job we did which is an absolute horrendous horrendous job we've actually had a straight forward it started off putting up a fight but with the right tools and get sorted so all done new lintel as you can see all re-sealed didn't need a trim on this because it's in the windows obviously the windows need a clean they're just the dusty but they are clean we've had them code with the sheet took the three courses out the cavity was plugged up as usual but all the way up here as well so all that's been cleared out extra insulation put in new lintel new new week events which are there when people say where are your events there's actually seven next job is this one which we're gonna come back and do on Monday so we're gonna head off to Berry's first thing Monday and pick the lintel up for that might pick all the lintels up while we're yeah we need another trestle four extra planks for the extra width because it's a 2.7 lintel and we need an extra acro and we're gonna bring strong boys in for that so we have three strong boys so yeah all done the straightforward one so yeah we might film the others I mean if anything happens differently we'll we'll see anyway right and that should be the end of that so if you enjoyed watching this be sure to give it a like because that's greatly appreciated and if you're new to the channel be sure to hit subscribe and hit that bell so you notified whenever we upload a video again we really appreciate that it's a massive help for us yeah so this has been Brickley with Stephen Alex and we'll see you in the next one


Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armel and I'm here reviewing the Stock Swoosh 2018 Trading Room Tracking. I own the Stock Swoosh and run the live trading room Monday through Friday. Room usually opens around 8.30 in the morning and we trade between 9.30 and 10, sometimes a little bit later, just in and out very quickly in gap. So all of these trades are gap trades. It's the only thing that I focus on and most of them actually are shorts. If you would like more information, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or give me a call at 929-3200 gap. It's very important if you want to trade the market to empower yourself with the right information. I've done that for myself. I've done that for the people that have come and taken my golden gap course. It's really about having the conviction when you take a trade because you must take risks when you take a trade. You won't make money in the market without risking your own money.  Just an important part of my program. So back at the beginning of the year, you're started out. January, there was winners on January 4th, LB January 5th, BKS was a winner. Then the eighth play was a winner.   AYI was a winner. The 10th, SBU was a winner. 11th, no trades. And then the 12th, GME was a winner. Some days, there will not be any gaps that meet my criteria. And therefore, there will be no trades. And that's okay. I think it's very, very important for Bill to understand, you get up in the morning, you've got to find something good. You're not going to be able to force a stock to move in the direction you want it to. And some days are busier than others. Right now, it's earnings season. Earning season is a busy time to trade. There's lots of stocks that moving, lots of stocks of volatility, lots of stocks that are gapping. You have more picks. But there may be some days during the course of the calendar year where it's better not to trade because you don't want to lose money. And then the end of January ended up very, very strong, strong week. All winners here, all winners here this week too. You really started off very extremely well. All winners this week too. And then February started out. No trades the first day of the year. SWKS was a winner. CMG was a winner. That was a nice one.  On the eighth, HBI was a winner. EXP was a loser on the ninth, and EXPE was a winner. So there was two trades in that. Sometimes I do a retake. That's not all the time, but every once in a while something will require a retake. Something else I teach in the class. Then next week here in February, there were two losers, three winners. And then into the holiday week here, room was closed at 19th.  And there was a second retake as a winner. And then there was three nice winners to close out that week. Next week then in February, there was a winner in the DF, winner in the SPI. Disney was a nice winner in the 27th. 28th low was a loser. TSO was a loser and CLG was a winner. MNST was a winner. And Full Locker was a good winner on March 2nd. Then the next week here in March, winners every day.  G was a winner. Rest of the week was good, solid. SIG winner, BABA winner, TIFF winner. 19th, Facebook was a winner.  Facebook was a winner. The second day continuation. Love was a winner. TB Day Off, some days I'm on TB. Although I've started to get help from Jira, who's been helping me out with the rooms when I can't do the room for television, which is not that often, but every once in a while.  WDC was a winner on the 23rd. The next day, the next week, next month and here in April, ALTH was a loser. UA was a winner. No trades on the 3rd and the 4th. TB Day Off, slow week. And again, sometimes you have that.  No trades on the 9th and 10th.  QQQ's were a winner. FAST was a winner on the 11th. BBY was a good one on the 12th.  WFC, two trades, one loser, one winner. And then WFC continued. Failed though on Monday. Netflix, big winner on the 17th. IBM, big winner on the 18th. PG was a winner.  Two losers in that. A was a winner. A continued the next day winner. MMN, two trades in that. WIM was a winner. eBay was a good winner that week. T, as well, and the 27th, no trades. Getting here into the 30th, AR and C was a winner.   ELO was a winner. SNAP was a winner.  AIG was a winner. And FLR was a winner on May 4th. Then into May in here, TSEM was a loser. CTSH was a winner. HTZ was a winner.  And then the second trade winner. EXEL was a winner. And no trades on the 11th. 14th, XRX was a winner.  PM was a winner. M was a winner on the 16th. LoveM, Cisco loser, second trade winner. WFC winner, and then CPB was a winner on the 18th. No trades on the 21st. Toll was a winner. 23rd Target was two losers. And then one winner, that was a tough one.  BBY was a winner. And then 25th Foot Locker, two winners. It was a really nice one. World Day Off for a little bit over a week.  Starbucks winner. AMBA winner, SJM loser, and LRCX huge winner. It was a decent start to the month of June.  Day Off, no trades. HRB loser, T-winner, Oracle was a winner. Guinea here, then into June. Spy was a winner. No trades on the 18th. And then again, a retake on the spy on the 19th. One failed, one worked. Starbucks, really nice one on the 20th. 21st, AOBC was a loser.  Starbucks was a winner. 622, Red Hat loser, retake winner. CCO winner, 626, no trades. CAG was a winner. WBA, one loser and one winner. It's interesting because many, many times I will just stick on top of something and they work. It's just really interesting. When I pick something and I rate it and it rates well per my Golden Gap system, I'm telling you it's so rare that it ever fails. But we're looking at trading on the one minute chart. So we have to determine our entry and our stop and our sizing. You can't just take a trade and not put a stop in. But if I could do that, I'd almost never lose unless the gap actually lost and that was, it's rare. But just looking at the setups and the trades, that's what I'm showing you here in the tracking because we do use stops. Then off for the week for July 4th. Pep was a winner.  Spy was a winner. Elby was a winner. And WFC was a winner. So 143 trade calls this year in the room, 2018. Only 42 losers, that's really good. 101 winners halfway through the year. Win ratio for the year to date, 71%. So obviously what does that mean? It means you're up.  So that's a really good win ratio. It means what? For every 10 trades you have to figure seven will be winners and three will be losers. And my win ratio will vary. Sometimes it's over 75%. Sometimes it's 80%. It just depends on whatever given period we're in. We're starting yearning season now. So there's gonna be a lot of things to do. My win ratio for July is probably gonna be up for July and August. This is just the name of the game when you're trading. But you should figure 10 trades, seven winners, three losers and that's how you make money in the market. You have to have a high win ratio system to succeed, to make money consistently, all right? So I teach a class on my method if you wanna learn. It's next weekend, July 21st to 22nd. It's a full two day course in how to strategically find pick and play stocks that are professional bearish gaps. The class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. Nine to five Eastern time cost of the class is 54.99. Email me at melissa at the stockswush.com if you would like to sign up. A few people have signed up already and I usually do classes once every four to six weeks. Depending on my schedule, depending on my schedule with television right now, it's been very busy. So if you're interested in talking to me, if you wanna speak to me, my suggestion is reach out, leave me a message, email me if you wanna speak. And when I have time I'll try to get back to you. I usually try to return people's calls within 24 hours or emails as well. Hope everyone has a great solid earning season and if you'd like to sign up for the class, you wanna join the room, you have to take the class to join the room but you get all these calls and it's been a strong year. So looking forward to the rest of 2018 with everybody that's a student and if you'd like to join the group, email me and you can sign up for next weekend.


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. The Office of Naval Research or ONR received the DOD's Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award December 2nd at the Defense Manufacturing Conference in San Diego. ONR developed an innovative, cost-saving method for making advanced cockpit enclosures or canopies for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The Joint Strike Fighter program is developing the next generation of affordable, lethal strike aircraft for the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The F-35's canopy has a unique shape and specialized material that is on the cutting edge of aircraft design. Less time and tools are required to build these new canopies. This new process aligns with the CNO's navigation plan by sustaining our warfighting capability and ability to operate forward through timely modernization. For more news from ONR visit their website.


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To become a philosopher, you only need to ask one question. Why? When you receive an answer, ask the same question again. You'll quickly get into some very deep and abstract ideas. And you'll quickly annoy whoever you're talking with. Most people don't think about the reasons for their beliefs. They don't understand that our conclusions about the world are periphery. They are at the very end of our thought processes. If a worldview were like a tree, our conclusions would be the leaves. A tree's leaves don't grow in thin air. They're attached to branches. And the same is true of our ideas. Conclusions aren't derived from nothing. They are stuck to a deeper set of beliefs. But the branches of a tree do not float by themselves either. They are attached to a trunk, which is then attached to its roots. Without the roots, there's no trunk and certainly no leaves. Our ideas work the same way. Every conclusion is tied to a long chain of deeper premises. And asking why takes you from the leaves to the branches, then to the trunk, then to the roots. And this is the practice of philosophy. Most people are only focused on their leaves, but today I am going to the roots. Not just of my own worldview, but of everybody's. Contrary to what you might think, a long string of why questions can actually have a final answer. We can arrive at a foundational conclusion, a bedrock for our worldview. The foundation is logic. And the reason is inescapable necessity. All propositions, regardless of their content, presuppose logical constraints. And these constraints are not optional. They're not hypothetical. They are necessary. Let me give you an example. Take the sentence, There is no married bachelor. This proposition isn't just true. It's necessarily true. In no circumstance, in no possible universe, could there ever be a married bachelor. The concepts of being married and being a bachelor, in other words, not being married, are mutually exclusive. This is not a hypothetical statement. We don't need to go out and test whether or not there are actually married bachelors somewhere in the universe. We can know simply by understanding the meaning of our concepts that there cannot be married bachelors. Here's another example. There is no object which has only six sides and only seven sides at the same time. Again, this isn't a hypothesis. You can know it's true with certainty. We don't need to think, well, perhaps if I searched underwater or in another galaxy, you will never find such an object because you cannot. By definition, it's impossible for anything to possess mutually exclusive properties. Otherwise those properties wouldn't be mutually exclusive. This is the nature of logical necessity, and there are countless other examples. Logic is the secret to all critical thinking. It's the root of every philosophical tree. It's presupposed by every sentence and every thought. Even by doubting the laws of logic, you've affirmed them as thinking that something might be false presupposes that there's such a thing as true and false in the first place. Not even radical skepticism can defeat an idea that it presupposes. This brings up the ultimate question. Why is logic necessary? Now the answer represents the very bottom of my world view. For better or worse, my mind can't go any deeper. I do not know any more fundamental truth than this. Logic and existence are inseparable. I will illustrate and rephrase this several ways. The idea is important enough to risk being repetitive. Here's what I mean. In all instances of existence, you find existence. And to the extent that something exists, it is necessarily false to claim that it does not exist. There is no case of existence which is non-existence. Nothing exists which does not exist. Now this applies to everything which is and everything which could possibly be. Something cannot not be the way that it is because if it weren't that way, it wouldn't be that way. If something is, regardless of what it is, then it is. And it would be false to claim that it is not. Therefore, truth and falsehood are inescapable categories for all of existence. Now for the philosophers reading this, I am claiming that at the very bottom of everything, epistemology and metaphysics blend together. We know knowledge because existence exists. All knowledge presupposes logical rules and those rules are objectively inescapable because of the nature of reality. In other words, that it is. This is bedrock as far as I can tell. There's no running from it. There's no transcending it. There is quite literally no possible escape from logic. You can verbally deny it, but only if you want to reveal your own foolishness. Like a man insisting, it is impossible to attempt communication. The only thing to which logic does not apply is nothing because it's not anything. If you understand this, you'll understand why I'll simply never be convinced otherwise. It's not pigheadedness. It's because in order for these beliefs to be wrong, it requires them to be wrong, which imply that wrong and not wrong are meaningful categories and therefore logic is again inescapable. You can know with certainty that you're never going to hear a sound argument against logic for the same reason you'll never hear a silent sound. It's necessity. The implications of logical necessity do not end with vague propositions like a thing is a thing. Instead logic applies to every sentence in every area of thought, regardless of how abstract or concrete. This allows the philosopher to state with utter certainty that in any field of thought propositions which entail logical contradictions are necessarily false. This is equally true from economics to gender studies to quantum physics. It also allows us to develop a method for thinking. Propositions do not exist in vacuums. Each one has presuppositions and implications. So everything to which logically follows from any true premises is also true and any idea which presupposes or implies a logical error must be false. And therefore it should be no surprise that paradoxes don't actually exist in reality. Navigating through the world of ideas is very similar to navigating through a dense jungle and logic is your perfectly sharp machete. So at the bottom of everything there is an immovable foundation. No deeper truth exists and methodologically speaking no truth is more important. It is essential to my worldview and to yours regardless of whether it's acknowledged or understood. To grasp the inescapability of logic and the reason for it is to grasp the most fundamental truth of the universe. Check out stevedashpatterson.com


I want to talk about something that seems to be making a few rounds lately on the internet and that's bringing back up this idea of a Switch Pro. You know that supposed upgraded Switch that exists behind the scenes that Nintendo is preparing to drop on us at a moment's notice, at least that's what people tell me, it will not only be more expensive than the current Switch offerings, it will also be packing a significant power boost and with new technology landing all the time, it could even be something that could be considered an entirely new generation of Switch hardware. Of course, there hasn't even been a whiff of an actual leak info on this, beyond a few rather vague reports from places like the Wall Street Journal. Or at least that would be true, if it wasn't for the fact that Sharp announced their Igzo displays would be used in a future Nintendo device. The Igzo display technology is a rather big leap over the current LCD tech Switch and Switch Lite are both now confirmed to be using. Not only is it extremely power efficient, it's also a near bezel-less like display, allowing a future Switch to have a screen that gets rid of the pretty massive bezel that it's currently rocking. It also has peak brightness that blows the current LCDs out of the water and it's much more color accurate and can actually display 4K at less power draw than the current screens. There are a lot of other differences as well, like higher refresh rates and lower latency. All of this does come at a cost though as the Igzo displays are among some of the best on the market and as such have a much higher cost than the current LCD displays. There was a thought back in August that maybe Switch Lite or the Switch revision would use these screens, aiding in their battery life. Now that we know that isn't the case, it is the one piece of definitive evidence we have that something else is in the works.  No, the Switch Pro, whatever Nintendo does bring it to the market, won't be a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox 2. We're not looking at real time ray tracing here with PCI-Gen 4 SSD speeds. But we could be looking at something that is capable of producing slightly better than PlayStation 4 levels of performance. Not really quite to the Pro level of course. At least in some areas. One area that should see a huge boost is the RAM. With LPDDR5 RAM going into mass production of late, specifically at the 12GB spec for mobile, this makes it an excellent candidate to appear in a Pro model of Switch. The biggest advantage beyond the massive increase in RAM amount is the RAM transfer speeds. The current Switch RAM transfers at around 25GB per second, whereas LPDDR5 RAM exceeds 50GB per second. That is still short of PlayStation 4's 100GB per second plus it's actually higher than that speeds, but this is one of the great sacrifices when you're using mobile technology. Many mobile devices, in particular phones, are going to be rocking 12GB of RAM as a standard at really affordable prices very soon. This makes the RAM even cheaper for Nintendo. The real question mark is how will the Switch Pro approach the literal chip? Many figured for a long time it would simply be the Tiger X2, a chip that was rebranded for smart cars. Its boost wouldn't be massive over the Tiger X1, but it would represent a speed increase on the CPU and GPU side to a margin that is better than the current iterations. The problem now is that new Surface devices from Microsoft are coming out featuring 7nm mobile chips that are reporting out 2 teraflops of performance, or basically a super thin and portable PlayStation 4. So far, nothing from Nvidia has even been rumored to be worked on that comes close to that performance in the mobile space. As pointed out to me by SuperMetalDay64 and ReviewTechUSA, shout out to you guys for updating me on all of the Switch info. Sometime over the last few months, Nvidia stopped following Nintendo on Twitter. Because for the rest of the Switch's life, to this point, the companies did follow each other on social media, which is pretty commonplace when you have a very public business relationship. Nvidia were even the ones to state publicly that they had a 10 year agreement with Nintendo. Of course, we don't know the details of that agreement, but if Nvidia felt they needed to unfollow Nintendo without even a sniff of a problem publicly, one has to wonder if Nintendo started shopping around with other partners, for future Switch versions, or even a new generation of Switch. It made sense to partner with Nvidia when they did, because they had the foremost mobile gaming chip on the market back in 2015 when Switch was being conceptualized and created. But since then, Nvidia has sort of abandoned that mobile gaming space, while AMD on the backs of their new desktop and server architecture has successfully taken that progress and applied much of it to the mobile space. Nintendo has worked with AMD for decades, including on tech inside the 3DS. It's highly unlikely a partnership with Nvidia would have damaged the reputation of Nintendo with AMD. Nintendo would obviously be aware of the progress being made by Team Red in their space, and may be shifting over to a new chipset. If this is true, this would explain why Nintendo has been hiring people the past year to work on operating system integrations. Yes, of course, this is all speculative, but since Nintendo is a business, it would behoove them to consider all options and make the best decisions for them. Both for what they want the tech to do, and what will make them the highest profit margins with the next gen competitors staring them in the face. Nintendo cannot compete directly with the future systems launching in 2020. Nintendo knows that, heck, we all know that. The replacement in the market is not being a market leader in terms of performance, rather it's in providing quote unquote good enough performance on the platform to be played on a TV and on the go, and it gives console like experiences at a satisfactory level. Of course, a lot of this tech I am talking about is new and expensive, and may price switch pro out of the market. And that's why everything up to this point may actually sound like it might be about a Nintendo Switch 2 coming as early as 2021, so there's that extra year of time for parts to become cheaper, to lead to a cheaper launch price, maybe at $399 or under. It's always possible the original plan for the pro model would be shifted to a new generational leap. That's just the realities of the way technology advances. You have plans, plans change over time, and that could just be what's going on. It would be interesting if that's the case, because I could see how maybe Breath of the Wild 2, or whatever they call it, may be delayed for such a launch, but we'll have to see. The other side of the coin is where we have to remember that Nintendo has talked about a family of Switch systems since day one. That family right now is basically two pronged. You have your normal base switch, which has been replaced with a slightly upgraded version that gives better battery life, but it's still the same switch underneath pretty much everything that matters performance wise. Then you have the Switch Lite, which is portable only. It ditched the ability to dock with a TV so you could only play it one way. A switch that sits on your TV and only does that could also be up for bat. And that would end up being a Switch Pro, a souped up overclock switch that can't be ticking in with you is possible in 2020. Of course, so is the original Switch Pro we talked about a year ago. Heck, anything is possible at this point because we just don't know, well, beyond the fact that it'll probably use an Exo display. The future has not been written, at least not publicly. The only thing I do know is that more is coming. More is always coming. And the possibilities, they're simply exciting. Now tell me, what would you like to see happen with the Nintendo Switch Pro, the Nintendo Switch 2? Down in the comments. Do you want one that's just sitting under TV only, do you want it to be souped up and super powerful and trying to aim to be at least a PlayStation 4?  Would you like Nintendo to ditch the Switch altogether and go back to the traditional console route and try to chase clout and chase power with PlayStation 5 and the next Xbox? I'm very curious what you guys want to see Nintendo do with their next more powerful device, whatever it ends up being because right now there's a lot of cloud, there's a lot of smoke, but we don't really know what the fire for all of it is. So I want to thank you guys for tuning in. I hope this was insightful. I hope that this made you think a little bit. This is an editorial video. I haven't done one of these in a while, but I really wanted to talk about the Switch Pro and I thought it felt appropriate now at a time when everyone all seems to want to bring it back up even though there hasn't really been any new information and we're probably not going to see any new information. I think we're to the point now that any rumors and leaks or in stuff regarding Switch Pro will not arrive on our doorstep until it's pretty much about to be announced. You know, I get like a little two-week rumor leak thing happening before it gets announced or something, but hey, if you're asking me when are we going to hear about Switch Pro or the next switch sometime next year, I think we'll see some confirmation in some way. It might not be an announcement. It could just simply be an interview where Nintendo says, yeah, well, of course, we're working on the next switch or something like that. But that would count in my book as them confirming it anyways. But we'll see what happens. I want to thank you guys for tuning in. I am the Thinner RoboJance from The Thinner Prime. You know what to do if you like this video. You drop a like on the video. You share it with your friends. You subscribe for more content. You hit that bell icon so you get notified when new videos do go up. And that's all I got for you today. Hope you enjoyed the video and I'll catch you in the next one.


Okay, it must be Tuesday. Orientation is a time and space. I'm Jay Fidel, this is ThinkTech. I'm the guest host, and that's Ethan Allen. He's the host guest, and you're here on likable science because it's likable. This is all likable. Okay, I'm going to talk today about something that's actually emerging in the news, and it's the age of global enlightenment to perhaps not, and it all has to do with AI, artificial intelligence, and 5G, and tariffs, and little wars that our president is creating with China, and how that affects things. So it could be the age of global annihilation instead, right? Yeah, global enlightenment, annihilation. The two are close. It depends on what you say to him. It's a hamburger or what. Anyway, so yeah, I think it's a worthy discussion to inquire because why? Because it's an economies of scale issue. If you're creating a brand new technology, hardware, software, that has global effect, that is a global consequence, then you have to have cooperation and collaboration. I mean, we know that in industry and in technology and in academia, in general, for a long time, you do better when you collaborate, and if you go and talk to the people, the scientists at UH, for example, they're all in collaborations all over the world, and they've been that way, and I would call that an age of enlightenment until recently. That's how science works, basically. That's how science works. Really, these days with the sophistication of science and scientific discovery, it's the only way science can move ahead without it. Okay, so we have two significant technologies that promise to change the world, and that they're not just limited to the United States. They're really global technologies, and you could say that China has taken some of it from us, and it's probably so in some ways, but you could also say that inevitably, we would have to be a global collaboration, not only the US and China, but other countries, Europe and many countries. So the question really is, what is happening now in terms of that level of collaboration in the two technologies we're talking about, one, artificial intelligence, which is really a software technology, and the other 5G, which is a combination of software and hardware for telecom. So when we start out with the tariffs, we start out with these trade wars that our president has created with China, and we wonder how that sort of gets in the way, because at the moment these trade wars started, at the moment we started getting into crosswise with China, which I think is going to be a long-term thing myself. Then we had some really good things going. We had artificial intelligence, and they were picking up on that. We were competing with your rivals, if you will, but rivals who cooperate are, it's a good result. And 5G, which has been talked about for, oh, two or three years at least, maybe more, it's coming of age now, and it's revolutionary as far as telecom is concerned. It's faster, it's more ubiquitous, it's going to strap the world together in terms of telecom, it's going to change your cell phone dramatically in terms of speed and power and function. So these things are major technologies, and the question is, I don't like to ask you easy questions, is how stunted is the development of these technologies in a world where we're arguing with people who, countries who might otherwise be our collaborators? I mean, quite right. In a better ideal world, we would be cooperating with them on both these things, on the 5G, putting 5G out smoothly, hooking in AI to it, and working for everyone's good, right? And the world hadn't thought of that. The two technologies, what an intersection that is, because the AI sort of will help organize the 5G, if you will, and tell which pieces to talk to which other pieces, and so they really work in synergy with one another. And it seems, well, what was it that Putin said about two years ago, basically, sort of said that this whole field of artificial intelligence basically is the next thing that's going to determine really who runs the world. And basically, whoever comes out on top of that is basically going to win the world. Absolutely true. It's scary, but true. Yeah, and that's what I think, as I see it, what the US is very scared about it, is with China becoming a global leader in the 5G, we're going to lose out, and we don't want to lose out on that. We are very worried if we lose out on that, we'll become a second-class nation. Did you hear that thing about Russia? Russia is testing on the determination of internet connections with places outside of Russia. They're going to isolate themselves electronically, just for tests, to be sure that they know who's coming from outside and who's coming from inside, because they want to be in a position to terminate anything from the outside and be completely self-reliant on the inside. Why am I concerned about that? It's not collaboration, it's something else. No, one of the articles I was reading today, and I think it was in four of us, points out what AI seems to have done somehow is spawn this sort of every nation for itself mentality. It could be Trump did that. The whole nationalist movement is very much that way, and AI somehow seems to be sort of helping that, and it's clearly not in the world's best interest. I mean the world is a very small place these days, and what we throw up in the air lands in some other country, and what they throw up in the air lands in ours, what you dump in your water ends up around the world in their water. We can't get away from the fact that we're all connected. The more we learn, the more we see how deeply we're connected. Yeah, so to be isolationist and nationalistic now, it runs against the grain. We have an organic phenomenon happening, and that stops it. Yeah, I mean if you think of it, since the end of World War II, we've basically been in a pretty sort of stable position, sort of geopolitically, right? I mean there have been some big powers, there's been some lesser powers. Yes, there's been a few other little wars and things like that. Part of that was the United States as a winner, so to speak, of World War II, set the global order, and for a long time, you know, even though we were sometimes better, sometimes worse at it, we had a positive influence on the world order. Now, under this president, and under Putin and Xi Jinping, we're not setting the world order so much anymore. Right, right, and exactly, and some of these other nations are developing themselves and sort of walking away from our influence. It's really frightening. I mean, if you think about that, the whole business of how the nations interact with one another is rapidly shifting and becoming very unclear now because of 5G, because of AI, and if that gets sort of goes a little askew and gets involving like weaponry and things, suddenly we can be in a real mess. Yeah, you know. But let's look at the, you know, the best case analysis and the worst case analysis. Let's assume that we don't have this nationalistic thing going on. Let's assume, you know, we're in Alice in Wonderland, okay, and everybody is working with everybody else, and it's like, you know, the best model for academia and industry and so forth, and of course you have patent rights and all that, but mostly people are willing to collaborate. If we do that, if we were committed to doing that, we're not, I think, but if we're committed to doing that, and Russia and China were also committed and Europe and so forth, what would the best result look like? Well then you've got things like international cooperation on water, you've got everyone sharing their technology so everyone can run agriculture better, so every sort of garden plot is functioning at sort of maximum efficiency, growing the right things at the right time, the right amount of water, nutrients are being delivered, everything runs much more efficiently, you don't need to transport stuff this far, you don't have these big emergencies, everyone's sharing data so that when they see a storm coming across another country, they tell people downstream sort of, you know, if you need to withhold water behind a dam or something, you can let your downstream neighbors know well in advance, you're going to have to do this and, you know, they can take appropriate precautions. I mean all of this stuff has, the world could be just a much, much better place for everyone involved.  Yeah, exactly. You know, the maps and projections indicate there's going to be parts of the world that are really going to be much less habitable than they are right now. The places currently that are hot and dry are going to be hotter and drier and a lot of people just aren't going to be able to live there anymore and they're going to have to find somewhere to go. Where do you think that is? You know, it's to places that are wetter. Migration, there's a migration involved in this. Borders and migration is also a function of this nationalistic thing and would be improved if we could come together on it. Right. So how would we come together? I mean, I want to go a little further on that, on that model. Would we come together by breaking down the borders? Would we come together by electronics, by telecom, by better software that is shared? How would we come together? I think to some extent by all those things, yeah, we would recognize that oftentimes it's actually good to have an influx of new people in your country. A lot of the data says that really improves your economy. There are new ideas in there. People are doing a new job. It's the people who have been doing the one job, maybe get to go out and do more exciting things themselves. There are potentials for a lot of nice things to happen, a lot of very positive things to happen. Yeah. And it sounds like, you know, that if we could use this technology together, I mean, it requires a kind of spirit of togetherness, then we could have a kind of global order where everybody who had a sort of democratic position, the playing field would be leveled, where we would all benefit by anything that was good that happened. Exactly. I mean, there's this idea of disruptive technologies. And in a sense, AI is basically poised to be sort of a disruptive, disruptive technology. Yeah. You know, sort of disruptive square, because it's going to impact with 5G, basically everything on how the world would run. Yes. You know, it's not going to just impact one sector. It's going to impact all the sectors. So everybody, you know, for example, one piece of technology, I'm sure it's AI, with instantaneous translation of any language. Right. Okay. I want to talk to Putin or somebody I pick up the phone and he hears English and I hearing whatever. Here he is Russian and I hearing. So you don't have those barriers and you have sort of a global community, a global society where everybody is in one order, in one society. Exactly. And this technology would make that happen. But also, that kind of society would advance the technology. It's a spiral up. Exactly. Everyone's collaborating, sharing their good ideas, tracking stuff, watching what's happening in the oceans, taking appropriate actions to protect the remaining fish stocks and help them. I mean, it's just, yeah, every sort of every facet of every industry is going to be impacted. Kudal will be positive. Yeah. So, but since the Trump administration has started, we have seen and he has accelerated this move, this movement to national nationalism, which is really isolationism, whereas, you know, each one for his own self and be damned the rest, which is change things. And, you know, I think we can see, don't you think we can see indications of the effects of that already? We can see how that affects the possibility of global cooperation. Right. Yeah. I mean, we see it right now, of course, over in Europe with the whole Brexit issue. Good example there. That's already, I mean, devastating impacts on Britain's economy. Wait till the deadline in March. Yeah. Right. Well, that happens. Yeah. People are really worried that there's going to be just a whole lot of ugly following that could reignite the whole Ireland, North Ireland conflict very easily because they're going to have to put up a border there. You know. So, I think we've established that geopolitical events and environments affect the technology and the advance of the technology and the technology, likewise, in the right environment will affect geopolitics both ways. It will certainly affect it. How it affects it depends on that. And now we have a problem because we have a geopolitical environment that's not positive, that's nationalistic and competitive is the wrong word, adversarial. Right. Okay. And that's affecting the worldwide collaboration on the new technologies and limiting it to country by country. Right. So, this is not particularly a good idea. We come back for this break, Ethan. I would like to ask you the dark side. I asked you, you know, the best analysis now I want to ask you, what happens if we continue to do this separation of nations? We'll be right back after this break with Ethan Allen, our likable scientist, our chief scientist. You'll see. Hello, I'm Dave Stevens, host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that's going to scare you out of your mind. So come join us every week here on ThinkTechHawaii.com, 1pm on Friday afternoons. And then you can go see all our episodes on YouTube. Just look up the Cyber Underground on YouTube. All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current, relevant information to protect you. Keeping you safe. Aloha. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on ThinkTech Hawaii. My show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines. And it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11am. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We're live. Ethan Allen, our likable scientist. And we're talking about, you know, I guess it's the end of the age of enlightenment technology is, you know, right on our doorstep here. And so, you know, I wanted to ask you where this all goes, if we take a trend, a trend line, a sea change on the current state of affairs, which is clearly a movement toward nationalism and isolationism, not only in the U.S., but in other places. It's catching like a virus. And I think it teaches us, one more point, it teaches us that a negative leader of a powerful, a formerly powerful country, okay, can have huge effects on other countries. And he can create negativity really everywhere. And that's global negativity. And if you PS, if you have global negativity around the world, what does that lead to exactly? It leads to war. Yeah. Well, anyway, so we have this global negativity that we have seen can be established or enhanced by one negative leader, very interesting phenomenon in the human species. So the question is, where does this go? What is this sea change take us to, you know, on the dark side, on the pessimistic approach? Right. Okay, let's just play out this 5G scenario. We put Canada in a very tight spot, right, by having them arrest the leader of Huawei technologies, right? China is now super unabated us and Canada. Canada is probably super annoyed at us for having put them in this rather awkward situation where they're caught in Iraq in a hard place. This could all break down. This could lead to severing diplomatic relationships. And then business relationships, business relationships fall apart, isolationism increases, national academic relationships, more, more finger pointing back and forth. They think we're we're essentially trying to cut them out of the game of technology, hostility, termination of collaboration, trying to infiltrate and learn all of our secrets. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Very rapidly. This could lead to very, very, very bad things. So in the case of China, China has plenty of AI right now. And actually, it was contemplating competing with us and being part of a 5G, you know, expansion that would go not only in China, but everywhere. I'm using Huawei or one of the one of the telecom companies over there as the as a vehicle for doing this. And we said, no, no, no, no, we're afraid of that. So the result is that China will do it by itself. Okay, so I give you a the possibility of a global expansion of 5G using artificial intelligence or the possibility of China, you know, retrenching, you know, folding in on itself and doing, you know, this technology development is this fabulous technology all by itself. So a, does that work as well? And B, has it affect the United States if they do it by themselves? Yeah, I mean, this, this could be very bad, right? The European leaders already have looked at the Chinese and their 5G and basically said, yeah, there might be some issues with it, but we think we can basically work around it, we can do our own security overrides on it, and we think we can make it work. If they basically buy into it, China continues to trade with them, the US is left out in the cold as sort of trying to run our own systems, which probably won't work with theirs. We are suddenly an isolated unit.  And what good does that sort of do for us? And China's Silk Road increases, their trading partners are developed. We meanwhile would get increasingly cut off from these same, these same parties who were already seen like we're on the road to making enemies out of our former friends. And our former rivals like China reorganized their own relationships and they fly over us. That's what you're saying. And so for example, if they decided that the market was better for them, I think it's an easy decision in Europe or Africa or other parts of Asia, then they can advance their technology and thus their influence without us. Exactly. We're a flyover. We become irrelevant. And we become irrelevant. I think AI affects financial transactions, 5G affects and the combination clearly affects financial transactions. So our ability to invest and do financial connections with other places in the world is undermined. And thus, and here's one thing that would flow from, in my opinion, flow from that. We are the reserve currency. The dollar is the reserve currency. We don't have to be the reserve currency. If other countries and continents lose faith, you know, in our ability, in our participation in the world order, they'll find another currency that will do better, maybe the one. Yes, exactly. It won't be the English. It won't be the pound. No, it won't. It probably won't be the euro either. But clearly the U.S. position as the leader in financial arrangements and financial standards will change. So I think the world order will change and we will not be in the same position we are now when that happens. Right. Now, there is this new American AI initiative, Trump announced the other day and the five points that are investing in the infrastructure and the human capacity and freeing up the resources and all the usual stuff. And I mean, if this really works in some sense, it's all of the good. But again, we've seen nothing from the current administration to suggest that they're interested in collaborating much with the rest of the world and something like this has to be done collaboratively. We can't run our own system now. And the other aspect of that is that a president has a way with the truth. He also has a way, a way with following up and actually doing things. We've heard so many initiatives of his that go nowhere. So, you know, he had a thought about AI one day, made a tweet over it. That doesn't mean it's going to happen. I guarantee that before it happens, there's going to be a lot of humbug and there's a fair chance it won't happen. It'll happen right after the space force. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Now, I mean, this is, this is sort of, it's, well, it's deeply worrisome, right? We can't, we don't want to proceed down the road. Anyone to look at that road and sort of say, being nationalistic and isolationist in the realm of advanced intelligence, artificial intelligence, advanced technologies, it leads nowhere. It leads you right off a cliff, basically. Right.  And everyone will get isolationist, in which case we'll probably break out in a dozen small wars somewhere and we'll solve global warming by setting off a bunch of nukes and, you know, won't that be fun? Well, yeah, but you're right. I mean, the both of the alternatives, given our isolation or bleak, one is the rest of the world unites against us, does its own thing, which is a real possibility. And I want to talk about how the One Belt, One Road initiative in China demonstrates this. And the other possibility is that the whole world falls apart. Right. And they're unable to create a new world order. And so we fall into this, you know, general global hostility and war in nukes. And that'll be the level of technology, nuclear technology.  Yeah, this is reminiscent of, what's it, Barbara Tuckman and the Guns of August, which was the description of how Europe worked on the eve of World War One. And it was all a trip hammer. If this happens, then that nation will, you know, be an aggressor on that nation.  And when the Duke of Serbia, whatever, the Archduke, Ferdinand, when he was shot, then it started the chain reaction all around Europe. And nobody really realized that it was going to have this huge effect. But with, hey, with nuclear weapons, that whole possibility is enhanced now. So the prospects are not so good here. And I feel that it's probably going to be in a sequence. First, China, looking at One Belt, One Road as a successful initiative. And there's some arguments that it's not as successful as they say, you know, makes hay right into Europe, right into, you know, the Middle East, and into Central Asia, and into Africa. I mean, they've already done that. In fact, in South America, you know, the Chinese are in South America, including Venezuela. And so are the Russians. I mean, the world, these guys are taking the pickings from the world. They're trying to get resources. They're trying to develop influence. They're trying to make investments. They're trying to own infrastructure in various places around the world. And we're not doing that. We've retreated from that. So give it a few more years, and we will be less than relevant in every continent you can think about, including our own southern border, including our own, you know, the border that Trump doesn't like, including all of South America is a good target for these countries that would like to try out their technology and get resources from South America. So what do we do about this, Ethan? This is pretty serious. I know it's a political question. But how do we stop this?  How would you, and these things in some way, you know, they're irreversible. You can't get back. You have to go forward. So how would you correct this? How would you fix this? What would you do? I give you as much authority as a president should have. I mean, at this stage, I would think you'd want to call an international meeting of the sort of the best and brightest political, scientific, humanitarian, religious, philosophical, academic leaders from around the world and get everyone together and begin to say, let's look at this as a global challenge. Let us consider this and let us find the best way to move forward together. Because it's one of these situations where, I mean, what do they say during the American Revolution if we don't hang together, we'll surely all hang separately, right? Yeah. And it's sort of that kind of thing. If we don't work in a collaborative situation, we are very likely to fall apart into this chaotic state. And nobody wants that. It's no one's best interest. So you really get the key leaders of the world together and say, look, let's stop our squabbling and bickering, throw some of this in front of the World Court if we need to for arbitration, try to extend a little bit of hand to friendship and a little bit of trust where we can and try to rebuild the relationships. So about relationships, yeah.  The carrot is obviously we can do better together. We can make this technology serve everyone. And the stick is, and this really was pretty persuasive, we have to deal with climate change. We have to use every resource we can. We have to collaborate all over the world to deal with climate change. And if we don't, we will hang separately. We all of us will hang separately. So that's pretty persuasive. And I know that you could do this. That's why I'm voting for you. Ethan Allen for president, right away. Thank you, Ethan.


All right, so I've got 13 new companies that are always hiring remote jobs. And the best thing is, most of these require little to no experience.  And the first one is going to be a Customer Solutions Associate working for Ancestry.com. And basically, you're gonna be helping people discover their origins, find ancestors, and also find relatives. An Ancestry is a renowned genealogy company that's been helping people do this for decades. Now, as a Customer Solutions Associate, you will be playing kind of a customer service type role, but on top of that, you will be working more closely with the person and recommending different services based on their needs. And you can earn bonuses based off of your performance and those services. So according to Glassdoor.com, Customer Solutions Associates make $24 an hour plus $10 an hour in additional pay. So for a total of $34 per hour. So this is a legit opportunity with an established company for the right type of person. So if you're the type of person who's sort of like a detective and you like solving puzzles and figuring things out and helping other people in the process, this might be a great option for you. And you can go to careers.ancestry.com in order to start applying. This one gets a score of 8.5 out of 10. Now, the next one on the list is going to be a fully remote job. And by fully remote, I mean you can work anywhere in the world. It's not just work from home or work from a coffee shop. You can literally work all the way across the world if you want to. As long as you have an internet connection, you're good to go. And this is going to be a Benefits Analyst for Inovalon. Now, Inovalon is an established company with a long track record of providing healthcare related solutions. And basically what you're going to be doing is helping businesses make informed decisions about their employee benefits program. And Benefits Analysts at Inovalon make about $66,000 a year. Now this position does prefer that you have a bachelor's degree, but it doesn't require it. And it's definitely going to be best for you if you're very familiar with Excel and other data analysis tools. But from my experience, this is one of those positions where you do not need a college degree. And as long as you have a good portfolio that shows that you do know how to work with data, you'll be good to go. This one is going to get an eight out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is going to be great for you if you're like perusing different forums, such as Reddit, or if you like spending time in different social media groups on places like Facebook or Discord. And that is going to be a mod contractor for ModSquad. And ModSquad provides services for businesses such as content moderation and community management. Now the range for pay here goes from about $8 per hour up to $20 per hour. And to land a position, you just go to their website and search the job portal. Now it is easier to land a position right before the holidays because that's typically when they start hiring a lot. So in the next few months after posting this video, they're probably going to start hiring. So overall, this one I'm going to give an opportunity score of 7.5 out of 10. The next one is going to be great for you if you'd like to be a professional guinea pig except without all the fur and the squeaking. That's right, you can actually get paid to test products. And that is being a test user at testing time. And basically they partner with different companies and then test users come in and test different products, websites or apps. And then you share your feedback on the products and you might give them tips on how they can improve them. Now, testing time is an international company although most of the products are based in Europe. And if you go on the website, they claim it takes less than five minutes to sign up.  So they'll invite you for these products and if you choose to review them, you'll pick a day and a time that suits you. Each gig takes about one hour and you'll typically earn somewhere between 10 and $25.  And if you sign up to a bunch of different ones, you probably could make full time money. But overall, this is more of a side job slash just make a little bit of money on the side sort of thing. So for that reason, I give this one a six out of 10 opportunity score. Next on the list is a company that's always hiring and in this particular case, I'm going to be talking about the position of billing specialist. And the company is going to be ABC Fitness. And this is a company that is a leading provider of billing and software solutions in the fitness industry. And on their main page, they say that they can help gyms grow by up to 30%. And client billing analysts have an average salary of about $58,000 per year. So in order to get hired, you can apply directly to the website or through job portals. Then you may be invited to an interview and there's probably is going to be a technical assessment. Then there's going to be training on how to use the company's different billing processes and technology. So overall, this one gets an opportunity score of seven out of 10. The next one on the list is going to be great if you're a detail oriented person because you can become a premium auditor and you can work for the company affirm. And in this case specifically, you will be auditing insurance policies. And as a premium auditor, you can make around $37 per hour. Now, one thing I do want to mention just in case you haven't watched my other videos is for a lot of these positions, they do say that they prefer maybe a college degree or they prefer previous experience. Sometimes they might even say that they require it. But if you're familiar with my channel, you'll be able to identify the job postings where a requirement isn't really a real requirement. And in many cases, you can land a job anyways if you do the right things and if you have a good portfolio. So it's always worth it to give it a try, but it is going to be a little bit harder to land this job. So for that reason, I'm going to give it an opportunity score of seven out of 10. The next company on the list is one that's growing insanely fast and they're basically always hiring. And that's going to be CrowdStrike.com. Now there's many roles you can apply for, but the specific role I'm going to be covering is the Customer Value Manager. And this is an extremely advanced leading cybersecurity company. And their mission statement is we don't have a mission statement. We're on a mission to stop breaches. That's pretty cool. And not only are they hiring really fast but they also have really good reviews online from their current employees. So to apply, you can just go to their official website and then click join our talent community. Now this one does pay really well but it does have some of the toughest requirements. So this one is better if you're already in an established career. So for that reason, I'll give it an opportunity score of six out of 10. But if you're an established career, this one might be a 10 out of 10 for you. So Belay is a virtual staffing solutions company that connects skilled remote professionals with businesses for different roles such as social media manager. Now this one also has really good ratings online. It's a company that's growing really quickly and they pay about $52,000 a year for the position of social media manager but there's a lot of other positions that they hire for as well. Now in order to apply for it, you just go to their website and click start application. And they're accepting applications for United States citizens in all States except for California, Montana, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The next one on the list might be great for you if you've ever wanted to save lives while wearing pajamas at the same time. And that's being a healthcare customer service representative for Alorica. Now this one has over 115,000 employees from 17 different countries and they manage the customer service for many of the biggest brands in the world. Now according to Glassdoor, the employee's estimated pay is around $18 per hour but keep in mind that's for people from the United States so it's probably gonna be a little bit different in other countries. Overall, this one gets an eight out of 10 opportunity score. Now the next one on the list is going to be a vision care company called 1800contacts.com and they're gonna be hiring people for chat support. Now requirements here are either a GED or high school diploma and you have to type at at least 35 words per minute. And this is a super fast growing company that sells vision related products and they were actually ranked as the number 21 best mid-sized employer to work for by Forbes. Now according to Glassdoor, this position pays about $19 per hour and on top of that it offers really good benefits. So this one is gonna get an opportunity score of eight out of 10. Now the next one on the list is going to be Sutherland Global which is a BPO. That stands for business process outsourcing. This is a company that also hires worldwide and the position they're hiring for is customer service representative. It also has really good reviews online and according to Glassdoor, the position pays about $16 an hour. In order to apply, you just go to their website, go to careers and then they'll actually have a job board where you can search different jobs that are open. This place has a ton of employees and it's growing super fast. I'm gonna give this one an eight out of 10 opportunity score as well. The next one on the list is going to be working as a sales development representative for the company Canonical. And this is a company that specializes in open source software such as cloud technologies. And as a sales development representative, you would be building relationships with the other companies that might want to use this company's products. Now SDR is one of those careers that I've talked about a ton of times on this channel that has the most opportunity especially at the entry level. And by the way, a lot of these careers you can get into without any experience or any college degree, et cetera. But with SDR, it does help to have a little bit of training and I will put a free training to what I recommend to getting into SDR. I've interviewed a bunch of people on this channel who have used this company. It's called Course Careers. And I'll also leave some other free trainings down below to other companies that I really like as well. Now according to indeed sales representatives at Canonical make about $48,000 a year. This is one of those jobs where you can get your foot in the door in the technology industry and even better getting your foot in the door in the cloud industry because that has a ridiculous amount of opportunity. This one gets a seven out of 10 opportunity score. The next one on the list is gonna be great for you if you're fluent in English and you like teaching people. And this one can be done as a full-time job, a part-time job or just to make a little bit of extra money on the side. And that's gonna be an online teacher at QKids. And QKids teaches over 1 million international learners English. They allow you to work from home anywhere in the US or Canada. There's flexible hours, which you get to set yourself. And it pays 12 to $16 per hour. And once you advance you can make up to $20 per hour. Now this one had really good ratings and reviews online. And one of the greatest things about it is it really does not require all that much skill. Basically, you just have to be fluent in English. This one gets a seven out of 10 opportunity score. Now by the way, I did a tier list where I ranked the best entry level jobs from S tier which is the best to F tier which is the worst. And you can check that out by clicking right here.