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> 96 GB of DDR5 RAM Most people drive cars worth less than this.
by blitzar 6mo ago
> 96 GB of DDR5 RAM
Most people drive cars worth less than this.
- basilgohar 6mo agoHe could have gotten it when it was still cheap.
- segmondy 6mo ago96gb of ddr5 ram is about $800.
- nine_k 6mo agoA single stick of DDR5 RAM on Amazon in about $450 now. Three sticks would be $1350. Do most people drive old clankers with less than $1500 resale value? You still need a few terabytes to enter the real cars territory.
- a3w 6mo agoMost people don't own or drive cars.
- rootusrootus 6mo agoWhere? Even in Europe, 88% of households have a car, and on average just over half of all people.
- abdullahkhalids 6mo agoI have seen global estimates for number of people with access to a car to be about 20%. But can't find a link. Some related stats [1, 2] from which one can infer that the above number is roughly correct. [1] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/number-car-owners-world-less-think/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/number-car-owners-world-less-th... [2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/registered-vehicles-per-1000-people https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/registered-vehicles-per-1...
- rootusrootus 6mo agoI guess if we expand it worldwide that makes sense, though in a discussion about 96GB of RAM it feels like an apples to oranges comparison to bring in the entirety of the world. That is including a whole lot of people who probably couldn't afford the RAM or a car even if they saved most of their income for a decade.
- hdgvhicv 6mo ago1.6 billion cars in the world. 8 billion people.