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Re:Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Co... by logicchains on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:21AM (#38899254)
> It's not like anyone can actually do something about it and that's all that really matters.

In the long term they can, by using the US dollar less and less. Which is already happening. One day the US government will wake up unable to print money to pay for things from other countries, and the economy will collapse.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Co... by hgomersall on Sunday January 07, 2024 @03:12AM (#38899498)
There are plenty of countries that don't use the dollar but that have significant current account deficits.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Co... by doublebind on Sunday January 07, 2024 @04:49AM (#38899898)
Many of these countries though, finance theirs debts and pay them back in USD, simply because the USD is still the de facto currency in global financial markets.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Co... by hgomersall on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:34AM (#38900374)
Many don't: the UK, most of the Eurozone, ...
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Re:Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Co... by foverzar on Sunday January 07, 2024 @03:00AM (#38899441)
I believe that's an entirely different issue, tbh. There is no grand strategy or conspiracy behind dedollarization, just a path of least resistance for free and open trade.

I don't like assuming that someone is an idiot, but besides "shitting where you eat" the only explanation I can think of is that someone is betting on WWIII and that it will end as profitability as WWI and WWII.

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