> They don't take interest (usury)
replyNvidia booked $496 million in interest income in Q2 alone [1].
[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026... page 15
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replyWhile I dislike this take, when the dust settles we will have compute clusters orders of magnitude larger than anything that existed in 2023.
replyIf demand vanishes for the 3 million cards Amazon just bought, then something will be done with them. The AI market may end up in a bizarre jepson's paradox of rotation between inference use cases and model training.
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replyThe OP I was replying to edited the comment, so I wasn't even considering that scenario. The original comment I replied to was about islamic banking comparison (up to the Wikipedia article link), dude added the scenario after my comment.
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replyI find "bro" and "dudebro" to be such fascinating slurs. The previous incarnation was "neckbeard" / "obese dude living in mom's basement", so "dudebro" comes across almost like a compliment.
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