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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by diabllicseagull on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:49AM (#50494389)
Another 40 year old gamer here. I remember all of it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M one my fav videos on the matter)

I also had the displeasure to work with nvidia. After years of pushing gaming cards on us for compute, the years I spent working with nvidia was full of conversations where they would list silly excuse after excuse as to why we should use the expensive enterprise-grade cards instead. All the while, we begged them to unlock driver features that were available to Quadro cards but not GeForce cards, features as simple as hardware acceleration pass-through on a remote desktop connection. It took them a full-on epidemic, where remote work became super common, to allow some of those features to GeForce cards.

So it's really on brand that they tried creating a fake scarcity to keep their prices up. I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by esalman on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:00AM (#50494440)
Thanks for sharing the video. What's funny is that YouTube tagged a 10 year old video as AI-generated. Google is another company that's fallen hard from grace.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:07AM (#50494749)
I don't think Google fell at all. It's just that more people seem to be aware of the level they've been at forever.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by pjmlp on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:39AM (#50494916)
I never understood the hype regarding don't be evil and such, how come a new generation could be so naive about corporations.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by enraged_camel on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:17AM (#50496073)
Don't Be Evil was never about not doing any evil. It was about the understanding that Google engineers were aware of their company's increasing power and influence, understood how their actions could cause great harm to society as a result, and were concerned enough to put their foot down and force management to codify the recognition in the corporate ethos.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:47AM (#50496246)
And which got thrown overboard the moment it impacted their pocket books. Principles are worthless if you're not prepared to pay for them.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by pjmlp on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:35AM (#50498353)
Indeed it was marketing fluff, like any big corporation has for their newly employees about "the mission", with compulsory training, that everyone forgets after a couple of months.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by vkou on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:51AM (#50498480)
That is correct, but in old google, sometimes employee pushback would get shitty and evil plans/products/policies rolled back. Not all of them, but enough of them. I've seen it first-hand.

That's no longer the case.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by sigmoid10 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:42AM (#50494929)
If you are old enough to have seen Google under their founders vs modern Google which is run by McKinsey MBA types, there is a ton of difference. Ask any older guy who still works there.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by mandarax8 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:55AM (#50494996)
That youtuber has been AI-upscaling a lot of his content for years. Perhaps he was able to 'upscale' his old video.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by irishcoffee on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:55AM (#50496296)
The published date should have probably been a clue.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by marcus_holmes on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:03AM (#50494457)
> I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.

Connected. Complete lack of integrity.

If he cheats on his wife, and on his customers, he'll probably cheat on his shareholders. Hence having to quit before he's pushed.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by shevy-java on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:20AM (#50494536)
Well - the situation with his wife or being unable to control his Jenwong or whatever one would call it, is still a private matter (the allegation of the spy situation is a bit more complex, but the other affair he had going, or at the least one, losing track here of his personal love life), is at the end of the day not really something that is or should be in the spotline for others, even though it has already generated tons of meme videos. People are very happily putting memes about the ex CEO right now - he is probably one of the top #3 meme people right now. The other day I saw where he approached two female podcasters; it suddenly had such a creepy vibe, given his weakness for females ... (though that was not a meme as such, just some seemingly accidental Jensen sneakily creeping in situation ... can't stop him zooming in on the ladies, apparently)

But customers having to pay more due to NVIDIA milking them - now that's something that really would require mandatory jail time for all NVIDIA folks involved here, IF true and verified in court (right now we can only speculate, even if we have extremely convincing proof; the courts would have to come to such a conclusion at the end of the day; and for this, the court systems have to work. I have severe doubts the courts work in the USA right now. It seems a billionaires-controlled court. Why is the whole Epstein network not investigated? Why is only Ghislaine in jail? A single person master-minded +5000 sex slaves over some 20 years or so? How is that even logistically possible?).

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gizajob on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:56AM (#50494694)
> But customers having to pay more due to NVIDIA milking them - now that's something that really would require mandatory jail time for all NVIDIA

It’s the task of every capitalist business in existence to “milk” their customers for the maximum amount of money they can for any given product. Everyone in business would be in jail by your metric.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by FabCH on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:07AM (#50494746)
This isn’t true. The somewhat infamous court case that established this is a USA only thing.

Business are absolutely free to set as their task things like “long term sustainability”, or “quality” if they so choose

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by sans_souse on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:35AM (#50494898)
Sure, not all businesses, but just like the consumer social classes their is the same sort of heirarchy in business, the top n percentile including big tech, oil, large chains, etc, are absolutely operating in the milking game.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by FabCH on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:11AM (#50495092)
Yeah but that’s a choice. Not a universal law.

The society can easily change this simply by actually enforcing the anti-trust laws that are already on the books.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by sans_souse on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:47AM (#50495284)
I'm not arguing the on-paper, I am saying in reality, it's not exactly looking all fair and even as intended; en contraire + it looks much the oposite.. in my opinion.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fricken on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:19AM (#50495141)
When capitalism is working as intended everything is covered in a layer of soot and 10 year olds are logging 60 hour work weeks
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#50494862)
Not everyone, we just need to jail a few executives and the rest of them will get the message
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by throwawaysoxjje on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:35AM (#50494895)
Well that sounds hyperbolic considering “capitalist business” runs the gamut between “trillion dollar company” and “guy down the street doing this in his spare time”
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by e40 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:34AM (#50494891)
The board told him to quit or else he would be fired. Make no mistake about it.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by bigstrat2003 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:45AM (#50495270)
Yeah. Literally any time a CEO "resigns" amid some negative news, it's a very safe bet that he was actually fired.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by adrianN on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:17AM (#50494517)
Owning three percent of one of the most valuable companies in the world is a completely unbearable situation to be in.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fr0styMatt88 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:25AM (#50494557)
Not defending NVIDIA by any stretch, but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.

Such a complete failure of the market that NVIDIA hasn’t had any real competition. All of the vendors abandoned PC gamers though. Though the price choke point is memory, not cores.

Which makes me curious, if AMD did another HBM-based card like the Vega series, would that RAM be cheaper now than GDDR?

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by kogepathic on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:43AM (#50494638)
> but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.

They do not. SR-IOV is only available on Arc Pro cards.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SR-IOV-Only-For-Arc-Pro

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by doctorpangloss on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:44AM (#50494640)
> real competition?

many have asked why AMD doesn't make its GPUs cheaper.

lisa su and jensen huang not competing with each other on price and being related is as much of a coincidence as wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gizajob on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:57AM (#50494700)
Set up a competitor and undercut them.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jurgenburgen on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:27AM (#50494854)
Patents make that difficult.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by chadgpt5 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:40AM (#50495243)
Don't let the tail wag the dog
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by devmor on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:03AM (#50494727)
> wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

Wasn’t this debunked years ago?

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:09AM (#50494757)
That's not going to stop the OP from bringing it up time and again in unrelated threads.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by onecommentman on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:22AM (#50495162)
Carthago delenda est.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by doctorpangloss on Saturday November 14, 2026 @10:50AM (#50497978)
I don't bring it up at all, ever, except here. Post histories are open. It's a jokey analogy. People are looking for exotic ways scarcity are made and it's usually just an agreement between two people made in a 15 minute phone call.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by RagnarD on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:09AM (#50494762)
No, it’s more thoroughly validated than most murder convictions.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by UberFly on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#50494865)
All available evidence has only solidified the lab being the source of the virus.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by felixg3 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:50AM (#50495295)
It’s been confirmed by agencies around the world including the rather conservative German BND [0]. It’s not a conspiracy theory - it’s fact that COVID-19 is of Chinese lab leak origin. The only open question is whether that happened out of malice or stupidity.

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/covid-pandemic-likely-unleashed-by-lab...

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by revachol on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:39AM (#50496199)
No. A bunch of agencies have started favoring the lab leak hypothesis with low confidence after recently reassessing the evidence. The BND has apparently favored it from the very beginning. Some others still back zoonotic spillover.

In any case, I'd wager no non-Chinese intelligence agency has the evidence to ascertain COVID-19 origin one way or the other. Both the initial confidence in natural origin and now this new certainty in declaring the lab leak hypothesis a fact seem nonsensical to me.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by felixg3 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:38AM (#50496563)
Low confidence? The category of 80-95% is enough for confirmation at intelligence standards. Stop protecting the CCP.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by revachol on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:57AM (#50497535)
I was specifically referring to US agencies here, see:

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/ODNI-3-November...

> CIA now joins DOE and FBI in assessing the more likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection was a research-related incident.

> CIA has low confidence in this judgment

> Given CIA's low confidence, credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information could prompt CIA to change its assessment.

> Four agencies and the National Intelligence Council (NIC) continue to assess that natural contact with an animal infected with SARS-CoV-2—or a closely related progenitor virus—was the most likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection.

It's interesting that the BND has higher confidence in its assessment but not sufficient to support your statement that the lab leak hypothesis has "been confirmed by agencies around the world"

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by justinclift on Saturday November 14, 2026 @05:21AM (#50495778)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M one my fav videos on the matter

Weirdly, Youtube has labelled that video as "AI".

Which is kinda hard to imagine, seeing as it was released 10 years ago.