"Yes, he has a long string of theft convictions, cheats at cards, and beats his wife, but I am totally surprised that he defrauded our company for millions of dollars..."

It is not a north american thing, it is a character thing.

I am pretty sure that "beating his wife" is criminal in most countries while "sleeping with someone that is not his wife" is not. That is material difference right there.

You words are doing a lot of work blurring the difference here.

You're substituting different actions. There's no reasonable justification for "beats his wife". "Sleeping with someone who isn't their wife" could have justifications - you don't know anything about their marriage.

It’s an absurd argument but I’m not surprised someone would say something like that.

It's very much a North American thing - likely related to the Puritans sects that founded the colonies. I'm not saying it's good or bad - simply pointing out the obvious.

It's also this incredible dichotomy - American culture is filled wit hyper-sexualised imagery in fashion, movies, TV shows - yet they still have an incredible stigma about public discussions on sexuality, public breastfeeding, or people showing open same-sex affection.

Quite frankly, what Jensen Huang, or Elon Musk, or Miley Cyrus or Donald Trump, or Jerome Powell or anybody else chooses to do about their sex life behind closed doors is their problem. Unless they come to you for relationship advice - you probably also don't know half the story.

I can also say with almost biblical certainty that none of the aforementioned people have come to any HN-ers for relationship advice....

Yet the sheer level of public discourse about Jenson Huang's marriage is insane.

Now, the GPU and export controls - that's a different matter entirely - and I can see how that might be pertinent to business discussions, and I can see why analysts would be interested in that. But we have barely any information on that. Nobody seems to comment on that?

Also to use your language "it's a character thing" - I should point out that it wasn't too long ago that a male being affectionate with another male was a "character" thing - see Alan Turing? Or Oscar Wilde? Or Tchaikovsky?

Yet if you saw another man holding hands with another man - would you say "it's a character thing"?

Unless I knew them personally, it's none of my business - I'm certainly not going to walk up to a stranger and go "Oi mate, you can't be doing that, it's a character thing!" Likewise if I saw people in open or polyamorous relationships (which I hear are a thing) - unless they were my friends and had asked for my counsel or wisdom - I'll let them walk their own walk. It's not my place to judge them - stick, eye, plank and all that. And relationships are incredibly complex things, and we often don't know the half of it.