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  • Valve did not say exactly why it got rid of its forced arbitration clause. But the company is currently being sued in a class action lawsuit in Washington state over the dominance of the Steam platform and over claims that it has overcharged for some games. The plaintiffs in that case actually went to arbitration and convinced an arbitrator that the forced arbitration clause should not apply to them, and were allowed to sue.

    The plaintiffs in that case “retained separate counsel and mounted a sustained and ultimately successful challenge to the enforceability of Valve’s arbitration provision. Specifically, the named Plaintiffs won binding decisions from arbitrators rendering Valve’s arbitration provision unenforceable for both lack of notice and because it impermissibly seeks to bar public injunctive relief,” the class action lawsuit against Valve reads. Valve has not yet filed any arguments in that case.

    Source: https://www.404media.co/steam-removes-forced-arbitration-clause-gamers-can-now-sue-valve/











  • This very much looks like a bubble.

    In my opinion: NVIDIA is a complete bubble from market valuation to product pricing, and I can’t wait for it to burst.

    What’s the return going to be like on that $5.27 B in spend over four years?

    I think you have the figures wrong, the investment is said to be around $1.5 billion dollars and $5.27 billion dollars is the expected return over the course of four years. If operators can get returns like that, they could break even in less than two years and profit for the remaining two years.

    Question is, does the bubble burst before they could profit or what if their(datacenter operators) customers don’t want to pay those prices to rent these GPU(s)? Former seems more likely to me, latter doesn’t seem possible seeing the craze to put AI in everything.