Except a nation with no debt and a negative trade balance has negative wealth.

You can’t sneak negative trade balance into an argument about public debt.

A nation with no debt has the ability to take on more debt than if it already has debt.

" Zero national debt " means zero dollars left in circulation after taxation.

You can have debt for circulation while maintaining a net surplus in all accounts. For example Norway has a per capita debt of $42k USD while maintaining a surplus of $295k USD per capita.

It’s similar to how a company like Apple holds debt of $108 B USD while maintaining a $162 B USD surplus.

The US was on track to becoming debt free by 2030 under Clinton in 1999. Then Bush was elected and dramatically increased spending while simultaneously giving tax cuts.

I’d like to know where you can get cheap Supermicro because when I looked into their stuff for my home lab it was way more expensive than Dell. I wanted to build it myself but couldn’t justify the price. I ended up buying used Lenovo servers. I got a complete server off of eBay for less than the price of 1 SuperMicro motherboard.

Supermicro seems to be the premium brand for servers compared to Dell’s Walmart approach of being cheaper through mass manufacturing with shortcuts wherever a penny can be saved.

How is supermicro an ai play? They make servers. Lots of companies make servers.

It’s like saying Dell is an ai company.

https://www.hitachi.com/rd/research/materials/quantum/doubleslit/index.html

So bacteria don’t exist either because you need a microscope to see them?

My Dinner with Bond.

For electrons you can’t do it.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electron-Fringe-Pattern-after-a-10-electrons-b-100-electrons-c-3-000_fig2_253550263

Not just sentient, but intelligent thought. I proved it in university. When I setup the lab, I got no interference pattern. When my more intelligent labmate did the setup there were fringes.

Wait! That means I was the sentient one! I was cheated! (Or maybe I just sucked at lab.)

I collapsed at the sight.

You can see wave properties from a double slit setup with your bare eyes. Here’s someone who did it with a cardboard box.

https://youtu.be/Iuv6hY6zsd0?si=TIlEJa4AJQhh8da4

If you setup a detector that measures which path the particles took, the interference pattern disappears- again something you can see with your bare eyes.

Chrome is great if you stay in Google’s ecosystem. But Google has been adding extensions for their own services at such a rate that it was the reason MS gave up and had to adopt Chromium for Edge.

Google has been doing embrace, extend and extinguish for years now.

namelly electronic payment methods

People don’t venmo at grocery store checkout. It’s all credit cards. The credit card craze started in the 60’s which unsurprisingly coincided with banks switching to eft’s.

Yes which supports the op’s claim that it is different because the companies doing ai hype are S&P 500 giants with multiple revenue streams, not startups with nothing to fall back on.

For example, MS’s stock was at $300 before the AI hype and now it’s at $400. It’s stock jumped after several quarters of exceeding expectations on revenue from their cloud services- which have little to nothing to do with AI.

Digital transfers are not necessary for banks to loan money. As your link says, it’s the loan, which gives money to a business or consumer that the bank doesn’t physically have, that creates money.

Electronic fund transfers and ATM’s started in the 1960’s. Nasdaq the first completely computerized exchange (no people involved) started in 1971.

The math that describes light in one reference frame is a mathematically perfect straight line. In a different reference frame the math that describes light is curved.

Just like a straight line in one coordinate system can be transformed into a curved line in another system.

That’s what they are paid to do. Big fund takes a short position, then pays analysts to produce stories to make their short position profitable.

OpenAI and others are the first to get cut

OpenAI isn’t in the S&P 500.

Carter was a peanut farmer and those peanuts were sold internationally. He sold the farm before being elected so as not to be in violation of the emoluments clause.

90s and the advent of digital account keeping and digital money transfers

Digital account keeping has been a thing since the 1950’s. And doing it on a computer didn’t change that all banks lent out more than they had. It’s the premise of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. Bank runs were a thing for as long as banks have existed.

They had too. They couldn’t get rich if they had to pay workers what they were paid when they were starting out.