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That’s irrelevant because the primary assets left after the dotcom bubble was fiber in the ground with a lifetime measure in decades.
by bc569a80a344f9c 1y ago
That’s irrelevant because the primary assets left after the dotcom bubble was fiber in the ground with a lifetime measure in decades.
- cactusplant7374 1y agoThe author of the article is comparing past and present. It's not irrelevant to the article.
- bc569a80a344f9c 1y agoThe whole point of the article is that the dotcom era produced long term assets that stayed valuable for decades after the bubble burst, and argues that the AI era is producing short term assets that won’t be of much use if the bubble bursts.
- cactusplant7374 1y agoBut the chips of the dotcom era were not long-term assets. The author appears to claim that.
- bc569a80a344f9c 1y agoWhere? I scanned the article again. I can’t seem to find that.
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- wmf 1y agoAfter the dotcom crash there was also a flood of used Cisco routers, Sun servers, and Aeron chairs and people were very happy to buy them cheap. The same thing will happen again.