He was so bad he was cheating on his mistresses :)
But yeah, a story about a billionaire not fucking kids, a breath of fresh air these days.
Exactly this. If it was a 13 year old spy he was having sex with then most in the american administration would not care.
So far only adult that being tracked, with this high functioning psychopath i don’t think children are off the list, yet.
The bar is so low with these scumbags
That’s why he’s been kicked from the oligarchs club. Pedophile only, sos
I can’t of believe it tbh
Age appropriate as well, so props for that.
Really? I probably should read into it. What an odd tech bro.
Is this why it’s called…
adultery?
Daaaaad…
The cheating is not the issue, that is between him and his wife. The alleged export ban evasion and potential smuggling is.
Can we please stop focusing on the infidelity?
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.
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.
All true. Especially
It’s more “only fuck people who can freely say no”.
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.
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.
Ed Zitron has been screaming about all this for a hot ass minute and no one cared until this scandal dropped
I mean, the infidelity with a possible spy is also an issue.
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.
Damn straight. Immoral though it may be, illegal it’s not. The export ban evasion is.
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.
Which would explain the resignation.
I’m not American so I don’t care about that. 😇
It seems a lot of the illegally smuggled chips ended up in Russian drones used against Ukraine.
But you do you.
They’re putting gpus in drones??
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.
He’s being cancelled for having an adult-woman fetish; completely unprecedented for a billionaire
Consenting adult women at that, what a weirdo
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.
He got more punishment than most people in the actual Trumpstein files.
Truely an hero
Heck, they might even have been consenting adults!
“What does it mean?”
The bar is in hell
Cheating is still cheating. Doesn’t matter how you spin it. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
I would say there is a bit of a difference. One thing can be worse than the other but still be bad.
Except the post feels like whataboutism with an attempt to downplay the act
I assumed it was a satirical reference to how so many of the other billionaires rape kids..
