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    5 days ago

    This actually explains a few things for me.

    I never considered that RAM and GPUs could be traded as futures, but obviously they can…

    This also reminds me of the trader at a trading company in London who had to take delivery of 28000 tonnes of coal due to forgetting to sell a future he owned.

    He only found out as the receptionist asked him to come down and sign for it and he saw barges of coal coming down the river:

    https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery