• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    We need to get spacex and nvidia under tight government controls if theres natuonal security risks around the way they do business, and there obviously is, centered on out of control tech ceos. Includes many others, including Thiel and Ellison. They need to be on a leash ,or else in prison, or out of the pictire. We cant just let them act like capitalist assholes when the countries security is at play. And if they want to leave, cool, but their companies and tech that was built in America with the benefits of American infra stays. They can have a plane ticket and we wish them well.

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    That’s $31,250 per chip lol.

    Pretty sure the big weapons manufacturers have sold weapons to enemies for lower margins than that and gotten off just fine.

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      Wasn’t that type of transaction. Jensen got the pussy and 7.5B.

      I’m sure he must be seeing this as an absolute win, until the spy news broke out.

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        No wonder he said he was “happy to pay” the $8 billion wealth tax California recently passed. China was covering it for him.

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          decent point. Even if he was penalized and divorced and lost half his wealth, he’ll always live in the lap of the best luxury in the world and if he wants 5 different highly motivated escorts to sex up every night for the rest of his life, he will absolutely have it and it wont make even a slight dent in his wealth. Even one billion is a lot, not to mention 80 or 160.

          Paying 5 escorts 10k each, every day, for 30 years, is only 500 million or so.

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    Apparently Nvidia’s export controls had two settings: restricted for everyone else and »call Jensen« for the VIP list. If these allegations hold up, the real breakthrough wasn’t the H100 architecture. It was discovering that 240,000 supposedly banned chips could pass through a relationship faster than customs.