> or if he humiliated his family here.

His open letter about his infidelity seems to imply he has embarrassed his wife and family, have you read it?

> His open letter about his infidelity seems to imply he has embarrassed his wife and family, have you read it?

He has also said so very many times in so very many ways that Nvidia was absolutely not involved in violation of export control laws regarding the export of its products to China. That -in fact- there was absolutely no smuggling going on and claims to the contrary were utterly baseless and without merit.

I agree with ohnnyApplePRNG's assertion that we know literally nothing about the private life and situation of Mr. Huang and his family.

So because he lied when he denied certain allegations, you don't believe his admissions of guilt? That seems like an odd logical jump.

> we know literally nothing

He "literally" wrote about how his actions hurt his family, I'm not sure why there's a second account parroting the exact same phrase.

> So because he lied when he denied certain allegations, you don't believe his admissions of guilt?

He repeatedly and aggressively lied about violating export restrictions. "Our chips aren't potato chips. These GPUs weigh two tons. [So, how would you smuggle those? It'd be impossible!]" is an especially memorable deflection of his. He's obviously very willing to lie about very serious things when doing so is beneficial.

> He "literally" wrote about how his actions hurt his family...

He also spoke and wrote about how it was impossible to smuggle Nvidia hardware into China, and that everyone who was claiming that smuggling was going on were liars. CEOs will often lie when issuing Obligatory Standard Statements, whether they be brusque dismissals of accusations of the company's wrongdoing, or assertions of how shameful they consider their behavior that lead them to do whatever it was that they've been caught doing. CEOs make the expected public statement and get on with their lives.

Plus, given how most folks are -at best- confused by and -at worst- enraged by things like polyamory, why on earth would he publicly reveal it if his family was actually totally okay with regular extramarital sex and romance?

No, situations like this get the Standard Admission of Deep Shame and Regret For All The Harm Caused, regardless of whether or not what's said has any resemblance to what the family feels about the situation. The only folks who know how the members of the family feel about this are folks who actually know the family.

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If he is actually a bi-furry with an understanding with his wife on 'affairs', do you think he'd say that? Or would he maintain the straight, family-friendly, investor-friendly front expected of him [by some people] in his position?

Don't get me wrong, I'm very much a promoter of monogamy.

I think it is naive to assume that such public statements are the whole truth of a matter.

People who fuck up a company (or have an affair, or get caught snorting drugs off a sex-worker) aren't really 'stepping back to spend more time with their families'. Historically the classic example of executive public statements.

People don’t realise that execs don’t actually write these messages usually.

Perhaps, but it's also more common than not for affairs to hurt families, and the statement confirms that applied here.

If you have stronger evidence that the statement was untruthful when it said he hurt his family, you may present it.

Until such time, the statement only strengthens the bayesian prior, which is that his affairs hurt his family, and that is what we can conclude.

> If he is actually a bi-furry with an understanding with his wife on 'affairs', do you think he'd say that?

Yes, and it would have helped. These are entirely different stories:

"My wife and I have a non-traditional relationship and would prefer to keep the specifics private, but no harm was caused by my actions."

"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry."

I think the thriving bi-furry community on HN might have a word or two to say about that

100%. While I do not condone his actions, publicly we do not know anything about his private life and the dynamics. Until there's a statement from his family, for all we know they may have been separated.

It's clearly the CN link and/or the cosying up with a customer that is the problem; the board would not care about his private life (and neither should the public, tbh).

And the open letter sounds more like it was written the way the public would expect a CEO to write.

Then obviously his letter could've said as much. It didn't, ergo an interpretation of available evidence clearly indicates you are wrong.

If he was in an open relationship or had a girlfriend while separated from his wife, that's not really something to be embarrassed about. His letter talks is him apologizing to his family and asking for forgiveness. He got caught in a Chinese intelligence honeypot and knows he fucked up.

We do actually know enough to know that the edge cases do not sufficiently apply here to arrive at the conclusion you're implying.

This is incorrect. Even if they had a totally open relationship, it being public news across the world can be humiliating.

We don't know, but it is overwhelmingly likely that he and his wife do not have an open marriage. Most people do not.