> The image of Nvidia advocating for exports of GPUs to china while compromised by an allegedly Chinese agent is the real issue here.

I said the same thing a few days ago and got heavily downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50417959

> Endless congressional hearings on that topic starting in Jan. Ha! Who's going to wait until Jan? There's already a congressional hearing on Nov/18 https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairme...

I may sound arrogant, but I am not. Many people are a bit slow to catch on to these incidents or can't see beyond one layer, like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418215

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timmytokyo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The cult of the Genius Tech CEO is strong on HN.

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saidnooneever 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

they think ceos are one many armies and no one else at these companies has talent or does work. its incredibly stupid and franky disrespectful to all the other hard working employees there who make shit happen every day

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zerohm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. "Huang was right to advocate for them, China has no incentive to skirt the import ban, sad day for developers," are not takes I thought I would read today.

	▲	elictronic 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bots are cheap and easy to spin up. Looking forward to a real government that doesn’t just lick billionaire taint.