• jagermo@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    The cheating is not the issuey that is between him and his wife. The alleged export ban evasion and potential smuggling is.

    Can we please stop focusing on the infidelity?

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      4 hours ago

      Hard disagree. Cheating with a spy is something he probably couldn’t have known, so that’s still between him and his wife. Cheating with a subordinate got me though. I’m not saying you can’t fall in love with your employee and they can’t fall in love with their boss, but the hierarchy involved in there gives the whole thing some tough dynamics. Remember Louis CK? This was in his statement about his sexual misconduct:

      But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.

      And it’s true.

      That’s part of the reason why so many companies (including nvidia) have rules against this kind of thing. You want to fuck your hot department boss? Fine, but move to another department first. Don’t shit where you eat. That’s why I think it’s much more dramatic for him to have started an affair with his employee than the whole spy story. The Chinese might have fooled him, but I can’t see how he’s to blame for that. But being the boss of a big ass company with rules that say you can’t fuck your employees should mean he shouldn’t have fucked his employees.

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        Also, as CEO, there’s literally nobody at nVidia who could turn him down and be sure of keeping their job. And, it’s not just a matter of “don’t shit where you eat”. It’s more “only fuck people who can freely say no”.

        As for the Chinese, I still think that’s a big deal. At the very least, he did something that could be used to blackmail him. He also didn’t get someone to do a thorough background check on her – he’s rich enough that he could have hired a private security company unaffiliated with nVidia to do it if he wanted to keep things quiet. Plus, it’s hard to believe that he had sex with a spy and didn’t either divulge secrets, or agree to deals that weren’t in the company’s best interests. In addition, it wasn’t just any kind of spy, it was a Chinese spy, and the China is the one company where nVidia isn’t allowed to freely sell its products. It looks very likely that his affair with this spy led to nVidia breaking the law.

        I’ve worked places where if you lost your security badge that was seen as a big deal, and if you did it more than once you’d risk getting fired. What he did goes way beyond that in terms of potential damage to the company.

        But, at least these were adults.

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          I guess what’s weird to me is that the environment we are in is accepting of so much worse than anything Huang has done. I mean, if you want to talk about affairs, the US president is likely a child rapist. If you want to talk about national security, there are completely self interested actors with undeserved security clearances surrounding Trump. If you want to talk about corruption, Jared Kushner is negotiating with countries while privately making billion-dollar deals.

          And what’s Huang done relative to that? Pretty close to nothing. It just seems fundamentally unserious to crucify Huang when worst stuff goes unexamined, like maybe all that’s really happened is he’s crossed the United States and its oligarchs and now he’s being punished.

          It reminds me a little bit about how Putin would destroy his oligarchic enemies with corruption investigations. Were they corrupt? Absolutely! Everyone was! But their true crime was getting on Putin’s bad side.

          It’s like justice unequally applied is injustice. You can see it international relations. Sure, we might pick up an occassional ethnic cleanser, or sanction an unruly warlord, but the United States and Israel get to do whatever the fuck they want, and now because the ICC is finally seriously investigating the US, they might be disbanded.

          It’s all a farce.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      The sex is the only reason this story has legs.

      Gamers Nexus did a three hour movie about the smuggling pipeline a year ago, couldn’t keep it in the headlines.

      People like gossip about sex.

      • Rothe@piefed.social
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        It seems a lot of the illegally smuggled chips ended up in Russian drones used against Ukraine.

        But you do you.

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            Russia has been using NVIDIA Jetson boards in their drones. I’m guessing for autonomous capable drones for computer vision/navigation in GPS and radio denied environments.

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      The ban was mostly a way to stifle open source and give a few AI juggernauts an easier monopoly. He did us a favor on that one.

      What we should be talking about is Nvidia’s current quasi-monopoly and how they use it with or without Jensen (prices, nerfing their own cards, creating artificial scarcity or too of the regular scarcity, probably collusion at multiple levels, etc). The regular stuff that doesn’t involve China or Jenson’s sexcapades is worse imo.

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      4 hours ago

      Damn straight. Immoral though it may be, illegal it’s not. The export ban evasion is.

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      I mean, being a CEO is a job of showing good judgment and trust as well. And those qualities are damaged when this is revealed.

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    Not very presidential at all! Good move quitting. Nod had he been a proper 80 year old pedo, then sure, keep going. But just a pervy 70 year old doesn’t seem fair.

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    5 hours ago

    Cheating is still cheating. Doesn’t matter how you spin it. Once a cheater, always a cheater.