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I'm honestly amazed at the PC component market for the past decade. The Thailand flooding that messed up HDD production, and crypto mining jacking up the price

by zymhan 6y ago

I'm honestly amazed at the PC component market for the past decade. The Thailand flooding that messed up HDD production, and crypto mining jacking up the price of GPUs, are just two examples

ethbr0 6y ago
Second order effects of increasing centralization in pursuit of manufacturing efficiency. It saves money to have everything co-located. It also amplifies the magnitude of physical-world disruptions.
- throwaway2048 6y ago
  more efficient usually means more fragile