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[–] 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Samsung uses monopoly tactics and government support to bankrupt smaller companies and then raise prices. They're scum.

RAM is so important to the world economy that their patents should be made public.

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    [–] 79 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no! RAM prices might go down! Won't somebody think of the poor shareholders?

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago

    he he nice, fuck the ram cartel

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  • [–] 122 points 2 months ago

    US frontier AI companies steal petabytes of copyrighted material.

    Oh shucks 😂

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago

    Guessing they won’t get much in the way of public sympathy given they’re bending consumers over the barrel. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago

    Oh NOW you care about stealing intellectual property!

    Fuck off. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, AI assholes.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Proving all this in court could give Samsung a powerful weapon moving forward. Legal experts believe the company might take sworn statements straight to the US International Trade Commission, a body with the authority to block foreign products from entering the country entirely.

    Which does not help because not every country will ban them and The other manufacturers will then have less demand and therefore have to reduce their prices in order to continue selling the same amount

    Edit: Doing so may slow the rate of the price decline in the US, but it will not stop it.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, whatever, anyway are they making loads of RAM? Can I have 64GB of Ram for £300 again please?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    I couldn't care less. Just make cheaper products with near or on par performance and you're okay in my book.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    Good. Fuck Samsung.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    Oh nooooo China will have to.....wait what will they have to do?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Oh no, I'm so terribly upset. /s

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago

    Oh no—anyway

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    In a better world, all of these technologies that get stolen by various corpo espionage and reverse engineering teams would be freely shared with the world so everyone can benefit from them, and people not in the dev teams might have improvements they can suggest.

    But instead we have a bunch of rich adult children who would rather take the ball and go home because they don't think they've recieved enough praise for bringing it, and wanting to charge everyone just to look at it.

    It's not a great metaphor, but honestly dealing with companies and governments feels a lot like dealing with children you aren't allowed to discipline or even talk sternly to because their parents have forbidden you from interfering.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Cambridge University found that the steam engine was held back for ~40 years because of bad patents

    https://archive.org/details/againstintellect0000bold

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    You mean 40 years of delay for the destruction of our biosphere?

    I'd call that a win.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    40 years of burning far more coal than necessary due to inefficient engines

    Whether the overall effect was positive or negative with respect to the biome, no clue

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, but also induced demand. More efficient engines means less coal per task, but more tasks, maybe so many more that total coal use increases.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    That's why I said we don't know the overall effect on the biome due to less efficient engines

    With how quickly we industrialized, my intuition is we were mining and burning it as fast as possible, but maybe more efficient engines could have let us mine and burn even more

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Let's not forget that mega corpos benefit heavily from government subsidized R&D in universities, insert themselves within the R&D and claim innovation as their own.

    Tech is built on FOSS and private corporations act like they invented butter.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    Good for them. Fuck samsung

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    [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But if China proves that US did industry spionage, what happens then?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Sucks they got caught

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    Yeah I'm fine with that

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    CXMT becomes the Luigi Mangione of the memory cartel

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    if they keep making memory for residential customers instead of dedicating all production to AI, then sign me up to steal US tech for them.

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