> My impression is that hardware has become a lot more capable even relative to its tasks. Indeed. The margins are bonkers high. As an example, the amount of r

> My impression is that hardware has become a lot more capable even relative to its tasks. Indeed. The margins are bonkers high. As an example, the amount of ram that you can stuff into a physical machine has at least doubled in the last five years, but the price of the average virtual machine has not.