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Re: Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider

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My advice is to ignore anonymous new accounts making inflammatory and fear mongering statements.

Open Amazon and look up hard drive prices and availability. This one is easy to fact check.

They appear to be normally priced and readily available.

Re: Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider

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GP is maybe “technically” correct, but given that «chier» is a slang verb mostly used orally while passé simple is almost never used orally and never in casual context, which means that you'll never use that tense on this verb in practice. “He shat” will 99.99% of the time be translated to «il a chié» ( passé composé ).

Thanks. I’ve never in my life heard “il chia”. And you wouldn’t formally write something so informal. Anyone curious can verify that google translate doesn’t even understand “il chia” and google translate is quite good on French.

It's precisely the juxtaposition of high grammar and low slang that makes it so humorous.

Someone cares enough to have compiled the conjugation: https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/chier.php

and it's a really old word, used frequently by Rabelais, for instance.

Re: Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider

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"Chia" also refers to the plant "Salvia hispanica", that's Nahuatl/Mexicano.

In French too [1]. «Chia» as “shat” is a theoretical conjugation of the slang word «chier» that you'll never meet in practice. [1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(plante)

As is the past form "shat" in English, for that matter.

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This is asinine. You would be making the product only available to those who can turn the highest profit from it and would lose the rest of your customer base to your competitor who is smart enough to not use an auction model. The entire cash flow would come from one narrow sector which would eventually collapse, leaving you with no customers. Business models evolve toward efficiency, and there is a good reason no on…

You realize capitalism is a system for allocating scare goods, right? An auction model means manufacturers benefit directly, and unless they're in a cartel, the high prices incentivize them to increase production. We see this happen all the time in the oil marker with marginal producers entering and exiting the market. Without an auction, anyone lucky enough to win the HDD lottery will have the same incentive, only t…

The problem is the network effect. With GPUs, substantial effort has been done to build products and tools on top of Nvidia's proprietary framework (CUDA). The community invested in a proprietary system under the understanding that Nvidia will supply the hardware and not monopolize this investment.

Should the community have divested from Nvidia's proprietary format and spread its resources on multiple platforms? Concentrating effort can benefit everyone, but it requires trust.

In addition, part of this community investment was funded by government research grants, adding a legal/public policy aspect to the issue. Should taxpayer money be spent on creating private, abusive, monopolies?

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