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Re:Azure and AWS's 'GPU general availability' lies by Taek on Monday December 19, 2016 @06:00PM (#13215766)
Funny enough they could solve this problem with cryptocurrency. Small payments are irreversible after about 10 minutes, and 5 digit payments are irreversible after about an hour, at least when Bitcoin is the base.
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Re:Azure and AWS's 'GPU general availability' lies by noahwilde on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:18AM (#13219945)
How does that change the fact that the bills are at the end of the month and you could just not pay it?
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Re:Azure and AWS's 'GPU general availability' lies by Taek on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:25PM (#13224787)
Nah you'd use either micropayments or a pay in advance scheme.
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Re:Azure and AWS's 'GPU general availability' lies by noahwilde on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @07:59PM (#13225902)
Couldn't you do that without involving cryptocurrency?
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