The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
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Aynı sistemde, benzer koşullarda çalışan insanlara bir günlük farkla 17-20 yıl uçurum yaratmak adalet değildir.
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Sepertinya kemampuan menikmati waktu sendiri adalah salah satu hal yang patut disyukuri. Mau ngopi, jalan, atau sekadar bengong juga sah.
Jensen Huang cheating on his wife is reprehensible. But with a second alleged affair suddenly surfacing, something feels very off.
Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates had affairs, yet neither faced this kind of immediate coordinated pressure to be ousted as CEO. Tech billionaires having affairs or women problems is not new.
I feel as though someone is deliberately trying to destroy Jensen’s reputation and force him out of NVIDIA.
Am I the only one who suspects something more coordinated is happening here?
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Our message to Nvidia's board:
Do not fire Jensen Huang.
There is no clear replacement for Jensen Huang. We are confident that his departure would ultimately be a net negative for Nvidia, its shareholders, and the AI Revolution.
First, take a look at the data. History also suggests that removing a successful CEO will come with a significant cost.
A study of 187 forced CEO departures from S&P 1500 companies found that removing outperforming CEOs resulted in negative long-term stock returns. This case would be no different, in our view.
Jensen Huang is the definition of an outperforming CEO. Nvidia's board must not make a decision in the heat of the moment.
The board should take the time to conduct a thorough investigation and consult with shareholders, with a strong emphasis on the latter.
Quite literally, Nvidia's board should convene a special shareholder meeting and hold an advisory vote on this decision. This is the most consequential CEO controversy in world history. Shareholders deserve a say.
In addition, Nvidia's stock, $NVDA, is now down -35% in 26 trading days, nearly half of which is a result of the recent scandal.
We believe Jensen Huang's potential removal as CEO is now ~80% priced in.
Why take an action with massive downside potential when the market has already priced in much of that risk?
The downside of retaining Huang may be limited, while the potential upside is tremendous.
Lastly, history shows that retaining Jensen Huang could still lead to a favorable outcome. In 2019, Amazon retained Jeff Bezos as CEO after his extramarital affair became public, and the company's stock subsequently surged +108% by 2021.
Personal misconduct should not be ignored, but it must also be distinguished from corporate wrongdoing and weighed against the consequences of removing an executive who is instrumental to the company's success.
We believe Jensen Huang is an irreplaceable part of Nvidia and the AI Revolution more broadly.
Once the dust settles, firing Jensen Huang would prove to be a costly mistake.
It is time to pause and consult your shareholders.
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🚨🇺🇸 WOW! Jeff Bezos wants the bottom 50% of American earners to pay ZERO taxes...
And he has a question for Washington:
“Why is a nurse in Queens making $75,000 a year paying $1,000 a month in taxes?”
Bezos argues that the bottom half of earners contribute just 3% of tax revenue anyway.
His solution? Stop collecting it from them entirely.
“We shouldn't be asking this nurse to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology.”
Writer: Samuel
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This is what Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is capable of.
It built an interactive 19th-century-inspired Parisian physics laboratory, Analyse Spectrale (Mod. M1-2-15), using nothing but a reference image.
It features 92 machined brass, copper, and borosilicate parts, a live Beer-Lambert Rankine vortex, an axial exploded view, and an archival Bento UI with a 60 FPS SVG Watt indicator and schematic plate.
The materials look incredibly realistic, and it even came up with the entire UI design on its own. I didn't provide any design references for that.
Gemini models are getting so good at 3D and physics 🤯
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Elon Musk is officially back in the trillion-dollar club.
Forbes estimates Musk’s net worth hit $1 trillion Monday, jumping $30.6 billion since Friday and putting him far ahead of Jeff Bezos at $371.5 billion.
The surge comes as two of Musk’s biggest companies rally. Tesla shares climbed following stronger-than-expected third-quarter deliveries, while SpaceX jumped more than 5% Monday morning.
Musk first crossed the trillion-dollar threshold in June after SpaceX began trading publicly, only to fall back below it days later.
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