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If the DRAM scarcity continues, not much.

It's a consumer market scarcity. Since you're supposed to run everything on rented hardware, own nothing and be happy, I'd expect the malloc to be the right place to invest into once it is IPO.

MaaS (malloc as a service)? Everytime your serverless function needs to allocate, you pay some fraction of a penny?

Just give us water as a service at this point

Most people have that at home? Personally, I don't but electricity as a service + a well pump is WaaS with extra steps.

No no, I want the version where you have to subscribe per person and it is extremely difficult to unsubscribe a person from it.

Also where it gets worse and more expensive up to the point where people really can't pay for it anymore.

If you think about it, it should be possible to sell drinking water for 10$ per glass since people will buy it at that price. Just need to consolidate all of the supply by selling it on subsidized prices until all the competitors are bankrupt.

The really remarkable thing here is that the Tory party (Britain's centre-right party) were able to actually privatise water. In Britain the drinking water is supplied by private and in most cases for-profit companies, which as you'd expect are both terrible at this and also much more expensive than the previous solution.

I'm sure they're excited by your suggestion though tempered by the fact that we did make it illegal for them to cut off your supply of drinking water if you're in debt. Not electricity, you can freeze or sit in the dark, but we decided that leaving the impoverished thirsty was a step too far and people might realise Capitalism wasn't such a great ideal after all...

Hyperscalars are also experiencing DRAM scarcity, FWIW.

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