GPU = Bitcoin farming. Prices rose during COVID because of the shipping safety that went in place, plus all the nerds farming for Bitcoin who wanted 4 gpus at once, and that’s also when the PS5 launched (not a PCIE GPU, but still contributed)

RAM = needed to process ai tasks faster. Now with huge factory size ai data centers, lots of order got lots and lots of ram. I’d expect this to be the norm every 10ish years when ram gets updated

You don’t = everyone.

It’s so simple. If you don’t buy from scalper, ever, they will go away…it’s literally THAT easy.

Wow. I’m totally neutral

If this goes to human trials and works and then gets approved for every patient I can only imagine the hundreds of thousands of debt this will put people and their families in. It’s awesome news, but the reality of it sucks