• likebudda@reddthat.com
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    5 hours ago

    Can’t be fired but can’t be trusted either. I’m sure he’s smart but if you’re going to have an affair as the head of an industry the US desperately wants to keep away from the Chinese, maybe don’t have one with a Chinese national? And certainly not a Chinese national that is the head of a Chinese company that wants the technology the US desperately wants to keep them from having.

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    6 hours ago

    Once, Michael Jordan was greatness. We had hero after hero showing us all what could be done.

    Today, we have these people acting as greatness. They’re not. They’re weak men with small minds. Nothing they do could ever survive the field of battle.

    I don’t want to be part of technology anymore. It’s boring and everything it does is a worse form of something we already did.

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    20 hours ago

    You know in 5th grade I too went through a leather jacket phase. Really cool bomber jacket style that I got at a thrift store. But when I grew out of it I didn’t replace it with a new one and make that my entire personality.

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    22 hours ago

    He’s now famous not only for his leather jacket but also for having let her jack it.

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    22 hours ago

    Shout out to the book Red Tide by M. P. Woodward. It’s a military thriller where one of the main plot points is a Chinese spy seducing the son of the CEO of a semiconductor manufacturer, in order to export AI chips to China. The book was published last year. The author worked in naval intelligence, so I guess there may have been rumors about this scenario before…

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    20 hours ago

    Has the DHS provided any evidence that she’s a spy? Most I’m seeing is that she’s a former CEO of a company that would benefit from buying Nvidia cards more easily.

    TBH if she was a white European ceo I doubt the headlines would all say “Spy”

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      15 hours ago

      That’s a good point. It’s US intelligence officials who called her a spy, but couldn’t supply any evidence of this. Sounds like the usual US bullshit.

      In our Swedish media it’s also being reported as a “spy” since we copy paste whatever the US say.

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        5 hours ago

        True but wanting to ease trade restrictions so you can monetarily benefit doesn’t fit the definition of spying as I understand it lol

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    21 hours ago

    You should notice in his apology letter he said he accepts the criticism for his actions but not the consequences. He, and his legal team, went over this letter a hundred times before it was released.

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    1 day ago

    I have a dumb question, what exactly does she have over him? Exposing nudes? Did he tell her secrets? What damming information or thing do they have?

    Like can’t he just own it like yeah, I fucked this chick and am a piece of shit like all the other billionaires but I won’t fall for the sextortion

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      20 hours ago

      there was a massive theft GPUs or nvidia chips themselves just days before this came out. the chip can be used to in the computer system, usually navigation, inside of ICBMs. hence they are prohibited from going to china.

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        15 hours ago

        With respect, humanity has been able to navigate ICBMs before Nvidia chips came along. Not saying you’re wrong about something being stolen, but the link to ICBM navigation seems rather teneous.

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          i am saying you are wrong. humanity has not been able to navigate ICBMs. only major nuclear powers can. US allies get their nukes loaned to them from the US. China caused a playstion 2 shortage 20+ years ago just to get the chips because it was more powerful then what they had. you should do some research.

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            I mean, what?! How do you think France built its SLBMs in 1972? With Nvidia chips? lol.

            Its a ballistic missile - we’ve known ballistic trajectories calculations since artillery became common. Yeah, they get more precise with star navigation and gyroscopes but if you can launch a rocket, you have to know roughly where it lands. The rest is just mega tonnage.

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      She is suspected of being a Chinese spy. As in: an agent of foreign state sent to honeypot Huang and steal secrets.

      Keep in mind that the GPU is a heavily regulated market with China being sanctioned - no exports of modern GPUs to China are legal.

      (notice how nervously dismissing Jensen always is when asked about the black market GeForce cards already in China)

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        16 hours ago

        Yes, and thats sad for the family but hardly some unique thing for people. Ive seen that happen to normal people too - the cheating part ruining family*

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    Who would’ve thought a country run by Pooh Bear would be so skilled at using honeypots.