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roenxilast Saturday at 1:56 AM3 repliesview on HN

Who in the developed world doesn't have a few luxuries? Pretty much all of history people have had to make do with RAM being a lot less accessible than it is now. It isn't essential and people can still buy RAM in the rare situations where they actually need it.

There is nothing here worth invoking the legal system over. OpenAI can buy huge amounts of RAM if they want. Good luck to them, hope it works out, looks like an expensive and risky manoeuvre. And we're probably going to have a RAM glut in a few years looking at these prices.


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AlotOfReadinglast Saturday at 2:20 AM

DRAM is one of the categories of advanced semiconductors that the US considers important enough to national security that exporting it to China is forbidden. It's a fundamental industrial product.

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rsynnottlast Saturday at 8:43 AM

> It isn't essential and people can still buy RAM in the rare situations where they actually need it.

There are about five billion smartphone users worldwide. An increase in the price of RAM will, for a start, increase costs for those 5 billion, as smartphones do not last forever.

harimau777last Saturday at 2:16 AM

I don't follow how computers are not essential.