• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Hyper scaling was always about cornering the computer market, It was never about providing us some vastly new and superior service.

    They should be strung up. And middle management needs to return to fucking school.

    It’s like Kyle Kulinski said “I’m starting to understand re-education camps now”

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      7 hours ago

      Hyper scaling was always about cornering the computer market, It was never about providing us some vastly new and superior service.

      Exactly, its a method of taking tens of billions of dollars in capital and buying a near monopoly. No other providers can compete if the hyperscalers buy all of the hardware, driving up the prices while also selling the service at a loss.

      Nobody working out of their garage with a cool idea for a better service can compete if they can’t get hardware and have to charge double what the hyperscalers are charging because they can’t burn capital for years.

      It’s a practice that should be considered illegal market manipulation, because that’s what it i

      e: extraneous ‘completely’

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        6 hours ago

        ‘Dumping’ is considered anti-competitive behaviour in a lot of places. This sounds a lot like that.