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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by abhinai on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:29PM (#50493945)
That is a very negative way to state facts. I doubt the neutrality of the authors.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gruez on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:36PM (#50493985)
Exactly.

"Banks allegedly engineered inflation by funding[1] consumer's spending"

[1] aka. credit cards

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by mrtksn on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:48PM (#50494042)
but thats how banks actually create inflation under the limits of the regulators, isn’t it?
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gruez on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:51PM (#50494062)
Thats what "spin" is. Things that are technically true but massively misleading, or selectively applied.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by LdBaringSwallow on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:09AM (#50494176)
Yes like iterate appeals to neutrality by people with inherent skin in the game

People who are inherently biased to select themselves upending any rhetorical appeals they are capable of the mythical perfect neutrality they appeal to via words

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by MadnessASAP on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:16AM (#50494217)
While I generally dislike scaling consumer finance up to larger markets, to go with your analogy.

Isn't the "credit" that Nvidia extended secured by the value of the GPUs and Datacenters the creditors end up buying/building? If so then should the value of those things suddenly plummet Nvidia is left holding billions in junk debt?

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by xxs on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:16AM (#50495128)
But that's exactly what happen in 2007-8 crisis.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gruez on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:25AM (#50496125)
No? Whatever banks were trying to do in 2007, it wasn't "engineered scarcity" or even inflation. The only overlap is that lending is involved and people hate it
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by xxs on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:47AM (#50497455)
The prices of building or buying rapidly escalated around mid 20s' We can say they didn't intend to crash but the inflation in real estate was rather obvious.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jackb4040 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:02AM (#50494132)
People don't have to be neutral. Neutrality between good and bad is mediocre. If you disagree with them make an argument, don't just lament the end of enlightened centrism.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by The_Blade on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:13AM (#50494201)
enough fallacies here to drown Cicero. ad hominem circumstantial with a side of false equivalence
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fricken on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:45AM (#50494647)
Yeah but if you're too inarticulate to spell any of them out then all you got is a baseless insult
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by LdBaringSwallow on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:07AM (#50494163)
As biological things on planet Earth stuck with this economic system we have skin in the game; aiming for neutrality is an empty platitude

I can likely reveal a whole lot of your biases and upend this phony notion we can't falsify over screen that you're pure in your neutrality

Trying to deny your real biological existence and inherent character flaws that come with is vanity

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by LdBaringSwallow on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:46AM (#50494375)
The neutral person would not downvote; just saying.

A neutral person would not have an opinion on negative or positive tone.

See Futurama for a comedic dramatization of the logic of the neutral character

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fricken on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:11AM (#50494489)
Zitron says it even better, with more facts, and more acerbic wit that is sure to upset the kool-aid drinkers:

https://youtu.be/zdL5HlJFdYw?si=acXYmps0t0i5CXNd