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I have two conspiracy theories:
Either Alice Huang being accused of being spy is a cover up for a normal affair, or
There is no affair, she is the middleman for Jensen Huang to do business with China and the 'affair' is a cover up for that
In both instances, Jensen Huang seeking to be let off the hook for one thing or the other.
His apology was so pat and by the numbers. You just know he had AI write it.
The actual explanation is “I am rich and famous and thought that should entitle me to whatever sex I want. And I thought I could get away with it.”
“I am rich and famous and thought that should entitle me to whatever sex I want. And I thought I could get away with it.”
Well then he used AI to successfully deflect away from the actual problem. No one cares who fucks who at nVidia, the problem is $2B in chips Megaspeed, his girlfriend's company, sold to China despite export restrictions. The fraud and export violations are the problem here, not little Huang.
Agreed and thats probably why his apology fell on the sword so completely: there’s no cost to admitting the moral failing and he is confident in the long run he will get away with it.
But material violations of commerce or espionage laws…. There’s zero about that in his apology and he will deny and fight like hell.
My only point here is to point out how trivial the human / moral / family dimension obviously is to him. Compete and total admission of guilt right away. Because he doesn’t give a fuck. Only thing that actually moves him is his job and company.
Something else no one seems to be talking about. Nvidia's chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC. What happens if China invades in the next year or two? Which is probably very high on the minds of Chinese leadership because they'll never have another opportunity, hopefully, where our military has been degraded by the incompetence of Pete Hegseth and a president who can be talked into anything by saying "Sir, you're a great and strong leader chosen by God. And here's some really delicious chocolate cake".
The military was enshitified before Smegmeth got there. The current level of incompetency and impotency couldn't have happened over night. It's taken decades to hollow out. There was some foreshadowing for how the Iran War would go when Biden tried to get the navy to build a supply pier. They had to hire maritime contractors to do it since the navy apparently doesn't have that vital capability anymore.
The fact of the matter is that Taiwan could easily handle being attacked since it already has a very capable military and invading a across a body of water is like the single hardest thing to pull off.
The US Navy is kept there on "guard duty" in order to burn money and enrich contractors. If it had any deterrence value then it certainly won't after the Iran War.
A lot of people have been talking about this.
They really do have a golden opportunity. Most countries are dependent on them for trade, the US military is drifting wildly, China has just demonstrated that they can influence oil markets far greater than anyone else, and China is are the point were if they don't take it in the next few years that they might not have the chance ever again.
There is a chance that China make a move and nobody comes to defend Taiwan because they know the alternative is worse for themselves.
This is why I own some Intel shares despite not having any faith they will catch up to any of its competitors. China might make it so that it doesn't need to catch up.
stealing a joke I read somewhere:
-Nvidia shared plummeted, first because midterm elections, and then because CEOs erections.
It is going to be funny if the AI bubble ends up popping due to the CEO of Nvidia wanting some strange.
Best possible scenario, imo, for the memes.
Proving once again you can still pick a man's lock using his own dick or the tip of his ego.
