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Re:John Carmack trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud by iam-TJ on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:33AM (#33831837)
Seems like it'd be simple to deal with that:

Allow people to pre-pay (deposit) an amount of their choice and set an account flag "Do NOT exceed account balance".

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Re:John Carmack trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud by dilyevsky on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:31PM (#33833651)
You will have to do transactional billing at cloud scale which isn’t really feasible
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