mhoye on Nostr: If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge ...
If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that might never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist and economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
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