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Roark66 | on: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Personally I think if she's a spy he is a victim. Who knows what his relationship with his wife is. It's none of the public's business.

The only newsworthy part of this is possibility he could've been blackmailed in the past about it and I assume this is what the investigation will be about.

thih9 | parent | next
He may be a victim, but note that he had to choose to participate.

Also note that his wife and children are victims of his unfaithful actions. He is the only one responsible for that - he just said so himself.

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Keyframe | root | parent | next
He may be a victim, but note that he had to choose to participate.

To play devil's advocate here.. If she's a spy trained in psychological manipulation and seduction we'd be right to call him a victim instead of a participant since he'd be a target of those techniques applied to him. Maybe?

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weatherlite | parent | next
> The only newsworthy part of this is possibility he could've been blackmailed in the past about it and I assume this is what the investigation will be about.

What ? If she was in his house and was a real Chinese spy who knows what data she extracted. Sorry, that's news worthy.

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1dom | parent | next
> Personally I think if she's a spy he is a victim. Who knows what his relationship with his wife is. It's none of the public's business.

This is an interesting take. I'm not sure I agree with it. I understand the principal: that she might have been being dishonest towards him, so he's a victim of lies.

Anyone who's worked in and around any high value, high risk or regulated areas has done the training courses on these sorts of risks though: specifically, people will lie to you to get information out of you.

Sure, on a personal level, consider him a victim if you want. On a professional level, this is him ignoring training, at great risk to the business.

Traster | parent | next
There are just some things that as the head of one of the world's largest companies you can't do. If Jensen Huang doesn't realise the geo-political importance of his chips, then he shouldn't be in the job. But we know he does because he spends all his time hanging around the white house lobbying Trump to let him sell his chips to America's geopolitical rivals.
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chvid | parent | next
It seems to have a political dimension: Jensen having a laissez-faire AI attitude and being a China dove.

Jensen also probably got too close to Trump and now the China hawks and maybe the dems are out to make an example.

Also Jensen does not have golden shares/full control unlike Musk, Zuckerberg etc. so he can be actually be unseated.

philwelch | parent | next
He’s absolutely the victim in one sense. On the other hand, the honeypot is the oldest trick in the book and he really should have known better.
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xiphias2 | parent | next
I think the cheating is newsworthy as well, but separate: Lori likes to donate money and she would be a great target for donations if she leaves Jensen.

There's $50B at stake, so there's a huge incentive for foundations to ruin what's left of the family.

shakow | parent | next
> if she's a spy he is a victim

I don't know; at some point “don't put your dick in people from the Other Side” should be a pretty well known rule if you're someone important. She didn't even hide her nationality.

watwut | parent | next
> Who knows what his relationship with his wife is.

Best bet: not too good right now.

InsideOutSanta | parent | next
> I think if she's a spy he is a victim

He's both a victim and a perpetrator.

And while I usually wouldn't care if he cheated on his wife, because that's between him and his family, in this case, he was also incredibly dumb. This guy could have cheated on his wife with any number of women, but he chose to do it with a Chinese spy. I think having somebody who makes incredibly dumb decisions be the CEO of the world's most important company is definitely newsworthy.

"You're not talking to someone who woke up a loser, but you are talking to someone who woke up next to a Chinese spy."

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_heimdall | parent | next
He may be a victim of espionage, but he isn't a victim of adultery. He knew what he was doing, a spy didn't make him take his pants off against his will.
maxglute | parent | next
Or she's not a spy and both are victims of more yellow peril shenanigans. Like a Chinese national spins up SG proxy to legally buy Nvidia cards. Jenson wants to legally sell Nvidia cards to China within export control limits. He hardly needs pussy as incentive to sell more hardware. Business people running billion dollar companies (megaspeed is) talking to domestic politicians isn't a fucking espionage, just like Jensen phoning Trump isn't. Like is PRC going to lock up any western businesses men that's ever been to the white house? It's just business as usual except useful idiots will by the yellow peril narrative that a moderately attractive Chinese MILF is a spy and business friend with benefits being used undermine Jensen for following letter / not spirit of law, aka customary fiduciary duty stuff.
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Frieren | parent | next
Defending a man cheating his wife because you probably have shares on the company is a great example on how messed up the world is.

A world in which Kings rule, and peasants defend their depraved way of life.

I really hope that you are a bot from a PR firm, because it his hard to image people being so servile to power.

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qs1ykyusPlate | parent
victim of cheating on his wife? hahhaha c'mon people is this place are hilarious.