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Ask HN: How much free beer would scare you?

2 pointsby paulkrushalmost 2 years ago
As I am writing this NVIDIA Corp’s market cap on the futures market is up 215 billion dollars. This is enough to buy a case of beer for each person in the world. 715&#x2F;7.88 = $27.28. If the cans were stacked end to end… Enough!<p>I see this as a little bubbly, but par for the course. How about yourself? How much free beer would scare you? And you know where I am going here. What needs to happen in your mind to convince you to say: “Oh Shit! Something is happening here.”?

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PaulHoulealmost 2 years ago
According to this, the U.S. beer market is $115 billion a year<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brewersassociation.org&#x2F;statistics-and-data&#x2F;national-beer-stats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brewersassociation.org&#x2F;statistics-and-data&#x2F;natio...</a><p>and this claims that global sales of beer are $610 billion<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;outlook&#x2F;cmo&#x2F;alcoholic-drinks&#x2F;beer&#x2F;worldwide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;outlook&#x2F;cmo&#x2F;alcoholic-drinks&#x2F;beer&#x2F;w...</a>
paulkrushalmost 2 years ago
It would be interesting to me if I saw used GPU prices jump back to 3x list purely from people wanting to run some new non-crypto libraries in the course of a few months. I think a 10x list jump would be scary to see at first, but normal looking back on. This is a hard question to ask because any real answer looks preposterous at first.
smoldesualmost 2 years ago
&gt; What needs to happen in your mind to convince you to say: “Oh Shit! Something is happening here.”?<p>A time machine. Nvidia has been a strong buy since Pascal, anyone who&#x27;s investing <i>now</i> is only reaping their diminishing returns.