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jmyeet • today at 2:11 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The irony isn't lost on me that Jensen Huang suffered consequences for his involvement with mature, consenting adults and a whole bunch of other tech billionaires didn't for their island antics.

I think the affair with the subordinate was the big problem. That opens up NVidia to a lot of legal exposure.

The Chinese spy is bizarre because these guys have corporate security and cooperation of the US government. How was this allowed to happen?

Skirting export bans is an unknown. I honestly don't believe this administration would let anything bad happen there. Jensen Huang is simply too rich and NVidia too big.


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booty • today at 2:42 PM

> The Chinese spy is bizarre because these guys have corporate security and cooperation of the US government. How was this allowed to happen?

Yeah, this is the most interesting part to me.

It points to the US government knowing about this, and holding onto it as compromat until the time was right to kick him out. But I don't even have a guess as to why this was viewed as the right time...

mcmcmc • today at 2:26 PM

> consenting adults

The affair with his subordinate brings this into question. The power dynamic makes consent extremely iffy. There is a reason it is not allowed.