Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by m10i on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:51PM (#50419981)

> Profit motive is all you need to be a smuggler, you don’t need espionage or anything else

What you need to be a smuggler is to avoid prison.

When one side is fully aware that you are a smuggler that they can rat on to the other side whenever they want, even a child could blackmail you.

So that's one (fairly realistic imo) pathway from smuggler -> to espionage.

This is a hypothetical anyways.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by newsclues on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:33PM (#50420291)

The core competency of smugglers is getting the goods delivered. Some smugglers are motivated beyond profit or avoiding jail.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by paimapi on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:22PM (#50420645)

Certainly no government would ever encourage its own agents to engage in things like smuggling like that of drugs especially to certain Global South nation states where the capital acquired from those drugs ended up funding pro-American paramilitaries and interests.

Contra-ry to common conspiracy theories, I'm certain any government-led self-investigation into culpability was all very aboveboard and well-substantiated.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mlmonkey on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:54PM (#50421218)

> Certainly no government would ever encourage its own agents to engage in things like smuggling

North Korea has entered the chat ...

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by defrost on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:59PM (#50421243)

Some may have missed that GP comment was dripping in /s tags and Contra-iness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mejutoco on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:50AM (#50421958)

They are talking about the USA

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by adrian_b on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:08AM (#50423536)

USA, which is famous for engaging in several smuggling operations, like the Iran-Contra affair.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by paimapi on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:45AM (#50427155)

I thought including 'bananas [...] republic' and 'Contra-ry' would be obvious enough of hints that I was being deeply sarcastic but alas

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mlmonkey on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:02PM (#50429083)

Sarcasm is a subtle art, my friend, and sometimes the audience misses the point. I did too, and re-read your comment and now see where you were going. <soft golf clap....>

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by chmod775 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:26PM (#50421064)

The Chinese government definitely has better sticks to threaten Chinese nationals with than ratting them out to the US. That's laughably backwards.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:04AM (#50421635)

She is a CEO in Singapore, she avoids going to jail by obeying Singaporean law. I don’t know how American law would even apply to her, they definitely apply to Jensen though.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by jon128 on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:07AM (#50425074)

American law, procedures and formalities or not, can potentially apply to anyone. Nothing is beyond our reach.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by NetMageSCW on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#50427610)

Iran appears to be.

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