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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by ffsm8 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @05:19AM (#47584707)
> Otherwise you could make a surefire profit by just buying some RAM and waiting a few months to re-sell.

Yes, that's why scalping is so widespread right now, because that's essentially what it is

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Re:How the AI Bubble Bursts by eru on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @05:53AM (#47584940)
And all morality aside: people will scalp ever harder, until prices are as likely to go down as up.

That's not just RAM, but pretty much any commodity or financial instrument.

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