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walterbellyesterday at 8:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Should countries have a upper limit on the ratio of server:client memory supply chain capacity? If no one can buy client hardware to access the cloud, how would cloud providers survive after driving their customers to extinction?

It shouldn't be possible for one holding company (OpenAI) to silently buy all available memory wafer capacity from Samsung and SK Hynix, before the rest of civilization even has the opportunity to make a counteroffer.


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venturecrueltyyesterday at 10:44 PM

We can prevent this from happening by enforcing 100-year-old antitrust laws.

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newscluesyesterday at 9:54 PM

Devices like smartphones and tablets that are locked down will continue to exist.

It’s these pesky pc things that people do bad things like piracy with/s

jeffbeeyesterday at 9:08 PM

If you asked me to estimate the weighted fraction of clients accessing cloud services using devices with retail DIMMs, I would say much less than 1%.

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