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by trvrprkr3 hours ago |
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upvoteby frabjoused3 hours ago|
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He’s also the chief architect of one of the most influential companies in the world. How many people has he positively affected?
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upvoteby cj3 hours ago|
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He makes overpriced computer chips... he isn't gandhi.
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upvoteby mapcars2 hours ago|
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He is changing the course of history, maybe even more impactful on a global scale than colonial conflict
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upvoteby ARandumGuy2 hours ago|
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I'm dying to know how other tech CEOs rank on your "historical figures ordered by importance" list. Like, do you think Steve Jobs was more or less important then Harriet Tubman?
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upvoteby kridsdale11 hours ago|
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Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.

Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.

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upvoteby jcranmer58 minutes ago|
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AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.
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upvoteby yoyohello131 hours ago|
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Bro... get a grip. He's one dude whose jobs is to boost stock prices, the company will be fine.
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upvoteby saturn860123 minutes ago|
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Screw the stock price. If you looked into the history of how the company survived you know the company is now Intel. The US has probably lost yet another industry to China. Wonder if the Taiwan investments into the US fabs will now slow because a lot of them were relationship based...thanks to Jensen.

I hope I am wrong but I am starting to think the US left is about to walk into a historical economic collapse that they are inevitably increasing the chances of by 'doing the right thing'.

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upvoteby loceng2 hours ago|
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You don't seem to understand how the economy and competitive forces work, nor how hierarchies of competency function and work.

I suspect you hypocritically have and will continue to benefit from his work that he started as their CEO 33 years ago.

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upvoteby DoctorDabadedoo2 hours ago|
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I just shed a tear thinking of how much shareholder value he created over the course of his career.

I'll be sure to tell that to my kids while I put them to bed today.

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upvoteby RunSet2 hours ago|
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Or maybe they understand better than you.

I hope this kicks the legs out from under the "circular financing"[0] that has enabled slop to permeate seemingly everything good about computing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting

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upvoteby woah2 minutes ago|
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If he was Ghandi the scandals would have been far more sensational
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upvoteby shimman2 hours ago|
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Really shows you how out of touch the tech world is with humanity and what average people care about.
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upvoteby 63stack3 hours ago|
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And how many has his influential company affected negatively?
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upvoteby edent2 hours ago|
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That isn't the way the world - or most morality systems - work.

A surgeon who saves a thousand lives doesn't get a pass for the one murder they commit.

If the person who eventually cures cancer also happens to be a rapist, do you remember their name with awe or pity?

The sort of Felicific Calculus practiced by the "Effective" Altruists is a tawdry trick designed to excuse despicable behaviour.

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upvoteby WinstonSmith842 hours ago|
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And yet you've a convicted felon who vacationed on Epstein island sitting at the highest office in the land, or even in the world.
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upvoteby trvrprkr3 hours ago|
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> How many people has he positively affected?

I honestly don't care. It's not a balance sheet to me.

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upvoteby calcifer3 hours ago|
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> How many people has he positively affected?

What's your definition? People he sold a GPU to at extortionate markups?

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upvoteby Topfi3 hours ago|
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What’s the revenue target I need to hit to get a free pass for sanctions avoidance? What other rules, regulations and laws do you think he should be absolved from considering NVIDIAs quarterly profits?
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