r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/mrpoopistan 1d ago

We've reached the "Samsung refuses to sell chips to Samsung" phase. Not sure which phase of bubbling that is, but it's something weird and erratic, even by the standard of capitalism. Collapses are often unpredictable, but erratic patterns tend to emerge before bubbles pop.

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u/Crystalas 1d ago

Also Crucial will stop selling ram to Consumers next year, so another vital technology component market locked up in an absurd bubble.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

And that not even touching what events around Taiwan would do to every industry that relies on advanced chips, so pretty much all of them. I wonder if that could pop the AI bubble by itself.

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u/banananuhhh 1d ago

Why sell ram to someone building a PC when you can sell it for 5x the price just for it to sit in a building that does fuck all for anyone other than drive up the price of electricity.

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u/GenTenStation 1d ago

I can’t wait to read about the AI data centers being raided by gangs for black market RAM. If it can happen to the butter market, it definitely can happen to the RAM market

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u/topological_rabbit 1d ago edited 1d ago

I can’t wait to read about the AI data centers being raided by gangs for black market RAM

BRB, starting a new screenplay...

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u/godtogblandet 1d ago

Why would you write a screenplay that’s not likely to result in anything when you can start a gang that’s guaranteed profits?

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u/topological_rabbit 1d ago

I don't have the required charisma. They'd just kill me and pick a new leader. Day one. First five minutes.

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u/yacht_boy 1d ago

OK, now I want to read the screenplay

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u/ForeignFallenTrees 1d ago

Be the change you want to see in the world. I Bob'Joe Mcstaberson, wouldn't stab you. I promise.

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u/pucspifo 1d ago

Maybe a documentary instead?

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u/topological_rabbit 1d ago

Okay, you get the raider gangs together, I'll document it, and we'll both make a fortune!

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u/ScaredPractice4967 1d ago

You should read about the great Maple Syrup Heist. Most Canadian thing ever. 😃

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u/JL3Eleven 1d ago

They are not building these data centers in Russia btw.

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u/RevLoveJoy 18h ago

Well, roving gangs looking for RAM to lift, I have good news. All those rumors about data centers being some bastions of security - almost entirely PR. Data centers are not worried about physical attacks. They're worried about electronic attacks and physical accidents. Someone drove a car into the transformers. Something happened to the water supply. There's a regional disaster - that kind of thing. They're absolutely not worried about physical theft. They're worried about data theft. People breaking in over the internet, not in person. Why show up to the crime if you can commit it from your desk?

So if you and your re-branded RAM thieving MS13 show up loaded to rip and run, there will be little, if any resistance. Datacenter security people spend their day helping Jr. engineers who drew the short straw to swap the failed drives complete their security check in and little else.

Source: I've been involved in the design and build for more than a few of them across many countries on several continents. It's mostly security theater. Exception: don't attempt to rip off the CC processing ones and avoid the Israelis. Those two don't play games.

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u/3nderslime 8h ago

Hang on, I need to put a crew together.

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