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    6 hours ago

    Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. - John Maynard-Keynes

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    5 hours ago

    Y’all believed that bullshit? Seriously? This dude was bad news from day one but Scammy Altman. Felon Musk, Mark Fuggerbeurk, Diarrhea Amodei, Sundar Pagal Bakwaas are all equally at fault.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

  • Jazzy Vidalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    “I am shocked there’s gambling in this casino!” moment here.

    But truly, these folks triggered what might be the one of the biggest economic busts in history by creating an entire fake industry around so-called “AI”. Gamers got to be first on the chopping block. Now the rest of the economy is gonna be on the hook.

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    7 hours ago

    Lol. Did you guys think there was an actual shortage?

    There’s no ram shortage either, hate you break it to you.

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      3 hours ago

      Thing is, I said something to that effect a while back, that this was nothing but manipulation. Then came the “nah broh, this is real, we ran out sand and fabs” comments.

      I’m not going to gloat about something terrible being true, but I am going to wag my finger at people who are too naive to question the motivations of the ultra-wealthy.

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    3 hours ago

    The funny thing was is I always told myself I didn’t like Nvidia. There was just something about them being everywhere that always annoyed me. But the stock did great. The cards were awesome. AMD just couldn’t get their acts together to compete against anything Nvidia or even Intel for that matter. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the next 6 months to a year with all of this. Maybe Nvidia will go back to making graphics cards and leave the AI to the new sheriff’s in town whoever those turn out to be.

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      6 hours ago

      I wonder how that’s playing out with corporate customers. My company went from reliable customer to offering employees the choice of macbooks, moving to Google workspace away from m365, and moving to GitHub Enterprise (self hosted) away from GitHub.

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        3 hours ago

        So your company has 34 people or they love wasting money on divergent technology?

        I’m not a fan of MS at all, but trying to run a scattered mess of technology gets very expensive very fast, even more at scale.

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    13 hours ago

    Shattering? Upholding the perception.

    The next bubble is coming. Who is providing the electricity for the coming flood of chips?

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      10 hours ago

      What makes you think there’s a flood of chips coming? The chip makers have been producing them at a constant rate. The electricity shortage is an issue, but that’s why the hyperscalers have been spending so much on generators and talking about restarting mothballed nuclear reactors.

      If the AI bubble pops, the chips will mostly go unused, or at least lightly used, and the electricity demand won’t happen.

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        9 hours ago

        Now that people know that there is excess silicon they can’t hide it anymore.

        The AI company valuation may pop but AI will stay. There is no limit to the amount of AI that can be used.

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          AI will stay. There is no limit to the amount of AI that can be used.

          Well, that’s debatable. Right now the advances and continued low costs are heavily subsidized by the speculation. As speculation slows, it remains to be seen how that impacts costs, demand and quality.

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    14 hours ago

    And then I have to read some dumbass commenting that he was the only one still fighting to keep GeForce going, while simultaneously working to keep prices high, lmao

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    15 hours ago

    As much as I hate Jensen, I have to admit that he was great in both being a technical visionary and also maximizing profit by extracting everything from his customers.

    So removing him as CEO in a capitalist society makes absolutely no sense to me.

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      9 hours ago

      So removing him as CEO in a capitalist society

      A capitalist society is one where the owners of capital want to continue to make a profit. By getting caught with a Chinese spy when selling advanced chips to China is one of the few illegal things that the Trump administration cares about, he put those profits at risk. His actions opened the door for investigations into nVidia. Every company has dirty laundry, and it’s not just Jensen’s affairs, so they don’t want those investigations to happen.

      He also is a major owner of nVidia stock, so he probably figured the best way to keep his money safe is to resign.

      Now he just needs to go get diagnosed with sex addiction or something, spend some time in rehab, do an apology tour, and in a few years he’ll be back as CEO.

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        one of the few illegal things that the Trump administration cares about

        The Trump administration knew about for months and did nothing, they knew the company that lady was CEO was sus AF and did nothing. Jensen was sidelined for a China trip and Trump itself ordered that he was invited.

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      12 hours ago

      I will never understand people fanboying tech CEOs/founders, or pretty much anyone honestly. Appreciate their work, if they do good work, but anything else is cringe, for lack of a better word.

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        8 hours ago

        Pretty much every single one turned out to be a monster in the end. Except Wozniak and probably only because he retired before he could be corrupted.

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          Its not even that, I dont understand what’s to gain by being Jenson’s biggest fan. He doesnt even know they exist. I understand why people would do a bunch of other awful shit, but I really don’t get this one.

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          12 hours ago

          I imagine he and/or Nvidia thought his resignation might help him escape the 20 year federal prison sentence for his seemingly wilful violation of export control laws, and the annoying thing about it all is that it probably will.

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            12 hours ago

            We need to move away from prosecuting traitors only for them to be pardoned, and move towards angry mobs that get jury nullified.

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      11 hours ago

      My conspiracy theory is that the bag-holders didn’t want to get caught when the bubble popped, so they spun up this story of an affair with a woman who could possibly be affiliated with the Chinese government, in order to knock Nvidia off the top spot. Now, Nvidia is going to deflate, and it’s the small players holding the bags.