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The strange deals on the entire future output are what was allowed. Try to do the same thing with onions and the government understands you are a criminal. htt
by occamofsandwich 6mo ago
The strange deals on the entire future output are what was allowed. Try to do the same thing with onions and the government understands you are a criminal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
- fc417fc802 6mo agoThat is quite the amusing read but it seems like a poorly constructed law. It wasn't futures themselves that were the problem there. The duo engaged in blatant market manipulation and severely disrupted part of the food supply in the process.
- wmf 6mo agoAnd now OpenAI is engaged in blatant market manipulation and severely disrupted the entire world's DRAM supply.
- im3w1l 6mo agoCornering the market with the intent to flip the goods is not quite the same as cornering the market because you actually want the goods and intend to use them yourself.
- occamofsandwich 6mo agoRight, the second was a conspiracy to form a monopoly.
- xigoi 6mo agoAnd it just so happens that many people will now have to use OpenAI’s products because they can’t get enough RAM to run a local LLM. What a coincidence.