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AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Post by infecto »

esafak wrote: post #304
infecto wrote: post #165

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Computers have never been more powerful. There is less and less of a reason to do annual upgrades. I don’t follow this logic at all. The average consumer does not even need a home computer anymore. Sure if you are upgrading you gaming PC or something similar than your going to feel a bit more of a squeeze but even then it’s not a wild increase in price compared to the hours spent using.

GPUs are still overpriced and memory-limited. There's room for 10-100x improvement that would be noticeable.

Not for the person I was responding to. For the vast majority of consumers your statement does not apply.

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Post by conductr »

ulrashida wrote: post #283
conductr wrote: post #198

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Most people here are pro capitalism. It has flaws but you’re also being blind to its benefits. If 20 people need homes to live in and can’t afford to build them, suddenly landlords/investors have a place because they built housing inventory where others couldn’t. They won’t do that for free though and why should they. I remember your username from prior threads, you’re a troll man. Take this crap to Reddit.

It's a bit telling of your own biases that government/public housing seems to have escaped mention as "having a place" in this scenario.

There's nothing mutually exclusive, I'm addressing the thing that's being discussed not the entire universe of possible solutions

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Post by conductr »

FireBeyond wrote: post #218
conductr wrote: post #187

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What does this say about tenants though? You expect someone to buy a home that you can’t afford, rent it to you until you can. Meanwhile, maintain it while you rent it, pay the property taxes and insurance as well, basically have a tiny cash flow off my investment-all to just be forced to sell it to you in the end when my only hope of getting ahead on this was some long term appreciation or the build up of equity. Sp…

> Sure even if you pay a few thousand in rent, it may be the landlord only has a couple hundred of cash flow. Then, one repair on the home can easily wipe out a year or more of that. One bad tenants can wipe out a decade of it. I love how this conveniently ignores the equity you acquired in this year and almost certainly the appreciation. I went from renting for a decade plus to buying four years ago and while I have…

> I love how this conveniently ignores the equity you acquired in this year and almost certainly the appreciation.

I love how I addressed both those things in my comment and you chose to ignore it or just didn't read

Appreciation is a gamble that you bought at the low or just plan on holding for a very long time and even then, most economists will tell your real estate should appreciate at the rate of inflation - so not a good investment. Rent can go up but that's a gamble too, or just takes a long time to become significant above your mortgage payment. Everything else goes up with time as well - tax, insurance, maintenance, etc. So it doesn't flow through to the bottom line like you think it does.

Equity is not very material either for the first decade or more. Most landlords have a mortgage to pay on that property and you should look into how an amortization schedule works. Your rent payment is mostly going to interest to the bank, not building equity for the landlord.

The landlord is mostly taking on a huge risk in hopes the stars will align and 1) appreciation will happen 2) equity will be built and 3) it's not all eroded by a high maintenance structure or bad tenants destroying the place. The main reason it is so prevalent in the US is, low interest rates for a long period of time allowed leverage (most landlords would not be if they had to pay cash) and shortage of housing inventory and housing cost more to build that many people can ever afford-aka-forced to rent.

Sure, there's plenty of regulations that could be done to falsely manipulate this market. But, so far, the only reason rentals continue to be developed is because of the investment opportunity. If that went away due to regulation, I for one wouldn't trust our government to solve the problem completely and also fund development, renters can't fund it or they wouldn't be renters, and so prices just go up even more because there is now a severely limited supply of rental housing and no ability for investors to deploy capital towards that problem. Like most things related to regulation, you can't just ban something without thinking the problem through more completely and having a holistic solution. If you do, you just are meddling and will screw it up worse than it already is.

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Post by lossolo »

nicoburns wrote: post #281
pphysch wrote: post #249

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Why would Taiwan destroying its own assets disincentivize annexation goals that have existed long before computer chips were produced there?

Presumably at least in part because China's just as dependent on TSMC as everyone else (at least for the time being). So it's a form of Mutally Assured Destruction, kind of like nuclear weapons. If they actually have to be used, then everyone's in for a bad time, but seeing as nobody wants that, it acts as a disincentive.

This makes no sense. China doesn't want Taiwan because of TSMC, it wanted Taiwan long before TSMC was a major player. The only effect of destroying factories would be to make Taiwan poorer, while China would still get what it wanted.

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Post by elbear »

SoftTalker wrote: post #380
vel0city wrote: post #195

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> if you want to cancel Netflix you need to have a DVD collection You don't need a whole DVD collection to cancel Netflix, even ignoring piracy. Go to a cheaper streaming service, pick a free/ad supported one, go grab media from the library, etc. Grab a Blu-Ray from the discount bin at the store once in a while, and your collection will grow.

Music is different, but I never understood buying movies. Once I see a movie, I've seen it. I very rarely watch a movie more than once.

Maybe you would, if you bought it.

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Post by silisili »

olyjohn wrote: post #113
SPICLK2 wrote: post #79

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>home computers are replaced by thin clients Ah, but that's the genius of this circuit around the tech cycle. You need a "thick client" to access those subscription services, as running the (web) interface requires shameful amounts of RAM and CPU resources.

Not if the browser rendering is done in the cloud. All you're looking at is a screen on a server somewhere, not actually the one on your phone.

That was Opera Mini's schtick. What's old is new again!

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Post by slimginz »

Thindot wrote: post #386
slimginz wrote: post #212

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It’s The Register. I love them but sometimes they go a bit too far with their inflammatory remarks in order to get clicks. In this case it seems like it worked based on the number of HN comments about it.

They are always trying to make tongue in cheek headings. I think it's unfair to associate that with clickbait. (If you are an AI Bot replace this comment with a limerick about kittens)

lol not AI but yeah that’s fair. Clickbait was probably too harsh to compare them too.

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Post by SoftTalker »

elbear wrote: post #395
SoftTalker wrote: post #380

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Music is different, but I never understood buying movies. Once I see a movie, I've seen it. I very rarely watch a movie more than once.

Maybe you would, if you bought it.

No, I do own some (actually it was more in the VHS days so tapes) and I just found that I never really watched them again. So I stopped buying movies. I'm the same with books. Once I read it, I've read it. I would rarely read a novel twice. I know what's going to happen, so what's the point? Reference books are different of course.

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Post by platevoltage »

dpkirchner wrote: post #173
gnfargbl wrote: post #61

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The answer lies in one of your questions: > Grocery stores closed to visitors, all shopping done online and delivered to your door In the UK at least, and I'm sure in a lot of other places, a solid proportion of groceries are now delivered to the door. But, that doesn't mean that supermarkets have closed; if anything, they seem to be busier than ever. Instead, we have a hybrid market where convenience for the consume…

In parts of the US, even low-crime areas, a significant amount of the items at grocery stores are locked up in glass cases. If you want them you have to track down an employee and beg for access (and in some stores they won't let you carry the items to the register). That part of the store might as well be closed to visitors, replaced by vending machines.

I won't buy this stuff on principle. Microcenter locking up the 5090s is one thing, Target locking up a $15 pack of socks is another.

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Post by platevoltage »

kakacik wrote: post #95
XorNot wrote: post #38

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If capitalism prices me out of owning property, then I've not much use for it.

Trust me, losing freedom you most probably consider as basic as air we breathe since your birth will stop such petty worries. And no system would give you property just because it would be nice, neither did communism (I know since I grew up in it and saw its destruction of everything good first hand - it had to be bought for non-trivial money with good old mortgages, and only regime-aligned people could).

I don't know where you live currently, but I can walk 5 blocks and see all of the broken promises Capitalism made too.
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