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Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by 148ag »

nonethewiser wrote: post #19
spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

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Certain general knowledge is assumed in adult conversations. Maybe not for sealions.

Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by Plont »

nonethewiser wrote: post #19
spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

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You can't be serious.

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Post by darkwizard42 »

nonethewiser wrote: post #19
spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

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The problem is that it requires vast sums of money to influence politics.

That is the antithesis of how politics should function (people are the interest, not moneyed companies)

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Post by cs702 »

"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." - Mark Hanna

Mark Hanna was a political consultant in the late 1800's, in the US.

Source: https://quote.org/quote/there-are-two-things-that-are-import...

Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by newtonianrules »

zdragnar wrote: post #7
bigcat12345678 wrote: post #6

I treat this as a sign of the inevitable terminal phase of any private cooperation in US: they start to invest their resources to stretch into areas that are irrelevant to their core mission, but they have to, because their core mission is accomplished already, and their business, which is built on top of the fruits of their core mission, needs protection beyond direct means relevant to their core mission. When pursi…

Their biggest customers are struggling to build out locations to use their products. This is nothing more than an attempt to engage in regulatory capture to overrule local politics on behalf of their customers.

Shame that the local residents that are angry at data centers being built near them voted for politicians that… don’t give a shit if data centers are built near them.

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Post by formvoltron »

Hopefully Huang will ask for tariffs on solar panels & batteries to be lifted. After several years of tariffs, there is no American solar panel industry anywhere near as good as China's. Open the floodgates & reap clean, silent energy at 5-6 cents per kWh. There's plenty of land for those panels.

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Post by nielsbot »

spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

PACs are an investment. You'd be stupid (principles be damned) not to invest. (Not defending this--this is the system that promotes wealth hoarding and theft of government funds)
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