• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Banks are in the business of underwriting debt and reselling it to private investors.

    We’ve been reading this “End is Near” shit since COVID. Put something more on the table.

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      3 hours ago

      Bad tech rapidly became a central pillar to that buying/selling and everyone is realizing it may be worthless.

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      I’ve been reading, “the end is near,” since HIV/Aids, y2k, 9/11, the SARS outbreak, the anthrax scare, the swine flu/h1n1 and the several ebola outbreaks. Oh yeah all those wmd scares and the potential for a world War after 9/11.

      The end is always fuckin’ near. If it’s all gonna end fuckin’ do it already!!! That’s what I think and it’s the waiting and the probabilities of the what-ifs that I can’t fucking take.

      Seriously, if they wanted to end it all they could, they just make threats to control everything with fear because all governments are terrorist fucking babys that ironically, need to maintain a society.

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          5 hours ago

          Even Enron was outperforming, just saying…

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          6 hours ago

          Their yields going higher and higher is not “outperforming”, it’s the opposite. Higher yield = higher risk.

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          21 hours ago

          Do you think they can maintain that for another 5 years? Another 20? Is the product AI companies providing worth the valuations?

          Are 5 AI companies providing more value than every other tech company in the last 50 years? Thats what the valuations are trying to say. Im still waiting on ChatGPT to cure cancer.

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            20 hours ago

            Do you think they can maintain that for another 5 years? Another 20?

            I think expecting NVIDIA to fail inside the next five years is a wild reach. You might expect Oracle to take haircut in the next five years, based on their atrocious debt load. But even then, the idea that they’ll miss a credit payment?

            Twenty years out, these firms are an even safer bet. Long term demand for compute and hosting services is only going up. And they’re so heavily consolidated. Too Big To Fail in every sense of the word. Are you going to bet against JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs on the eve of the financial crisis, even? Twenty years later, how are they doing?

            Are 5 AI companies providing more value than every other tech company in the last 50 years?

            It’s not a question of value, it’s a question of earnings growth. Will these top 5 AI companies be seeing stratospheric earnings growth in the next ten years? All signs point to “Yes”. The race to cement these data center footprints is a scramble for limited resources. The Capex budgets won’t be inflated to this degree forever.

            Dismissing them for their rapid expansion would be like betting against New York and Chicago real estate markets because you didn’t trust skyscrapers to be profitable in another 20 years. Or betting against U.S. Steel and Standard Oil at the apex of WW2, because the resource demand from the conflict can’t go on forever.

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              18 hours ago

              I’m not saying they will fail I’m saying they will not maintain their rate of growth. Very, very different things but i guess you can pretend i said something else and argue against that or whatever idk dude lol

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                18 hours ago

                I’m not saying they will fail I’m saying they will not maintain their rate of growth.

                They’ll hit a saturation point eventually, sure. But demand for capacity continues to outstrip supply.

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                  5 hours ago

                  If you will hit a saturation point, at some point the demand will stop outstripping the supply. Once you cannot exapand, the supply will catch up simply because the demand decreases, not considering that the supply could simply increase.

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                    1 hour ago

                    because the demand decreases

                    Can you point to a five year span in the last century when demand for compute has decreased?