unsure, tbh. technically he did activate more money to chase his cards while keeping prices high for large-scale customers, so it would be really difficult to claim he did not act in nvidia’s best financial interest this particular time. sure it’s an evil move, but it’s pro-corporate evil, which is explicitly encouraged under securities legislation.

i’d guess that the sentiment behind exposing him is that the house of cards is collapsing soon anyway, so you might as well enforce the law against china now. like, private money from institutional investors is drying up, that’s why everyone is having ipos, and openai barely managed to get anything in their last funding round. they’re putting all the ai companies on the market so private investors can quietly exit and pass the risk to 401ks, index funds, day traders, and whoever else is stupid enough to soak it up, and then they’ll let it run out of steam because no one is willing to fund the ai bubble any longer. the bank of nvidia is no longer as important in that environment, it only had to be kept around while they had little to no exit strategy, and that has changed recently.

it’s as universal as insults come, that part is true, the american thing is to just make everything about cars

i mean, yeah, maybe the law should not protect those who it does not bind, but as far as jensen goes there is little reason to believe he’s been banging kids or something. both known women he had an affair with are 40+, his wife is a similar age as him too, and i don’t know of any creepy comments he has made. he also isn’t glued to trump the way musk, bezos, the zuck, and the others are. which would have been one of the most reliable tells otherwise imo because the epstein files aren’t about exposing trump, they’re about trump’s leverage over other billionaires with the threat of them getting the gates treatment. he had to use export laws to threaten huang though, if he had files on him he wouldn’t need that.

it’s a particular paraphilia to be attracted to teens, and that’s what epstein island has been about. i’m not saying the nvidia guy didn’t do a million things wrong, but he either doesn’t have that particular paraphilia, or he’s really good at compartmentalising it.

switzerland already did that to some degree. turns out a whole lot of democracy is boring stuff that most people don’t want to bother with, it’s only some specific decisions they want total control over.

imo the right answer would be a system where elected representatives exist but can lose their power at any time. like, imagine a system where voting power on legislation belongs to the people, and bills get introduced through having the support of a certain number of people, but you can delegate your voting power to a representative of your choice, at any time you want, with no fixed terms.

protests would have teeth in a system like that, because they would directly result in the refusal and re-delegation of power immediately, with no need to wait for elections, and no need to weigh a low number of parties. you can just select whoever to handle your vote, whenever. and if you don’t like that person, select someone else.

we could even include an option to override your rep and directly vote on specific issues without having to change reps or throwing your vote away on the day-to-day technicalities that your rep would understand far better than you.

why did jensen stop having affairs?

technically you would be hitting an asteroid field and turning it into a thriving planet if you wanted the inverse effect

true, it’s polycule ∈ clusterfuck

🫱 americans 🫱

nah, affair #2 was with a different vp and #3 is as yet undisclosed. although if #3 was with the interim ceo that would be a very good reason not to disclose it

there isn’t. the only real protection is if you find your own clients and build your own relationships with them. but that’s so difficult these days that you might as well just get a regular job in the same field.

idk the “official” definitions, but imo the main difference between the gig economy and a freelance job is the gig economy happens through a platform that often exploits you. for example, for the previous user’s field, it would probably happen through fiverr, which takes 20%, actively pushes your competitors, and punishes for any attempt at communicating off-platform. for more “mainstream” gig work, you have platforms like uber and doordash, where everything is integrated so deeply that off-platform work might as well not exist.

part of the reason i think is that we just don’t have well-known platforms that aren’t exploiting both workers and clients, so both are having difficulties avoiding the exploiter in the middle.

from what i’ve seen this is a very american phenomenon. a lot of yanks are concerningly quick to switch off their empathy when someone is “on the other side” and they often use the same kind of tactics they decry as horrific when it is used against them. (ostracism, ableism, what have you.) they often don’t have principles, just allegiances.

i’d say this is slightly more noticeable on the left than the right for the sole reason that the american right keeps its empathy off nearly all the time, while the left has it on by default but turns it off when someone’s vibes don’t match. but the core issue of critically low and conditional empathy is the same there.

and sure, idk how literally everyone around the world behaves, but at least the progressives i met (locally, outside the us) usually aren’t like that.

there’s still one, marco rubio. sure he has his ghoulish project in cuba, but in every other sense he’s the sane one to talk to about foreign policy, and he usually presents a counterbalancing force to trump and co back when the truly idiotic policies come up. idk how much domestic stuff he does though, i would expect the outlook on him to be different from within the us.

that said, he’s not the real architect there. bannon and miller are, and they’re actual full-fledged nazis.

i think this is flawed, tbh. it’s true that up until this year, llms did not make people any faster at coding, or more able to tackle challenges outside their skillset. but that has changed, and if you’re in uni now, you’re not trying to be useful today, you’re trying to be useful 4-5 years from now. it’s wildly irresponsible imo to gamble your future on llms failing when the trend has been the exact opposite.

you also shouldn’t gamble your future on llms being easily available forever. but you don’t have to do either.

the real thing that matters isn’t line-by-line coding ability, it’s a deep understanding of technology. that’s what you should be focusing on. it cuts juniors deep (and by definition, most coders at uni are juniors) because they tend to be the group that focuses the most on the superficial aspects of coding and not on the underlying reasons and technologies, but that focus was always wrong, it just used to be easier to get away with being wrong.

focus on being someone who understands systems and builds things, whether or not you have an ai to help you. programming is not an abstract field judged arbitrarily by how well your peers like you, at the end of the day it’s very results-driven. we build real things, and it matters more what you can build than how you do it. and what you can build directly depends on your understanding of technology, regardless of how much ai is being used at building it. it does not matter if your c++ is 10% more idiomatic or 20% less llm-coded than that of your peers, what matters is if you managed to solve the problem.

even if we assume llms will be more capable in the future, not less, that direction will help you, because most non-coders don’t know what the hell to ask an llm to get something done. they also didn’t know where to start before llms were a thing. it’s your willingness to learn and your understanding of where to go, what to reach for, that sets you apart from an mba with a claude subscription, not your ability to dance around the borrow checker.

tbh as far as those lucrative jobs go, a lot of americans and western europeans also have some reckoning to do. especially in the us, a lot of those jobs come from selling a service to the whole world, which siphons a bunch of money from a whole lot of different countries into the us. so why should only americans be allowed to work those jobs? and if the rest of the world gets tired at that, why shouldn’t they just cut those companies off and make domestic competitors?

it’s crazy that we live in a world where you can do the same job as someone else in the same western coalition – and increasingly, in the same global trading order – and often do it for the same global companies, and yet, get paid wildly differently just based on where you’re from. as long as that is the case, in my opinion it’s already unfair to an immigrant that they had to immigrate to get access to the same opportunities someone else has by default. anti-immigration rhetoric is just deepening that injustice.

welcome to orbanistan, recently renamed for our new glorious leader! we’re the perfect hangout spot for commies for that raw soviet vibe, because we sure as hell haven’t progressed since. indulge yourself in a thousand intricate flavours of hate, walk the depressed streets of our only city, or simply enjoy our currency making you feel like a millionaire just for being able to afford to visit.

lmao

y’know, i used to think that we would get android girlfriends because jensen huang is 62 and you know he wants to bang a robot while he still can. i didn’t expect that the way this would lose its relevance is through him losing his position as ceo, but it’s indeed a very jensen way for him to do it

although now that he’s not saddled with managing nvidia, he can go and focus on it. like he’s still a billionaire

as someone who went through the same, it was mostly lack of attention. i had a vague idea that israel and palestine hated each other, and it was easy to understand from a perspective of israel taking palestinian land, but when you don’t think about it too much it’s easy to both sides it or feel like the supposedly western, supposedly democratic one has a point. i think a lot of people in the west had that vague, unrefined view when oct 7 happened, and it’s easy to stand with someone who just suffered a terror attack.

but it just kept being a focus in media, and the more you look into it, the clearer israel’s crimes of humanity become. and the crazy part is that the vague perspective of israel taking the land for themselves is absolutely correct, but when you see it for the real atrocity it is, rather than an abstract curiosity, it’s impossible to side with the occupiers if you’re not a bigot.

i used to think the us was an incredible place to live, and that most people saying otherwise were just amplifying its faults from a sheltered perspective. one single trip to nyc of all places changed that. it’s impressive how broken the us is, the decay isn’t just an abstract concept, it’s literally everywhere in a physical sense. even places that were supposed to be nice were rough around the edges in so many ways.

(edit: just to clarify, i’m a european)

honestly this is mostly a result of disenfranchisement, not immigration itself. the middle class has a reason to fight through that, while lower classes are protected by their own against a hostile society. make society less hostile and the problem solves itself.

but if you wanna solve mass immigration, you should strive for global equality. even when given unrestricted immigration prospects, people tend to stay put when they don’t have a strong reason to move, and if you knock out economic and military reasons, most immigration tends to happen due to relationships and it’s fairly balanced.

insisting to prevent mass immigration in ways other than trying to solve the root reasons is just insistence on a privileged place in global hierarchy. i don’t think that’s morally sound in any situation.