The shenanigans her team pulls off for pure market capture (timing of releases, formats, etc) against specific artists that pose a threat to her dominance is well documented. So, yes
Microsoft obviously. They lost on Web, they lost on mobile, they lost on pretty much every consumer product. Nadela constantly bemoans that Google makes more per Windows install than Microsoft does.
The fact that Microsoft still makes a lot of money from unrelated stuff like cloud is not relevant to the discussion about their browser strategy.
Volcanic eruptions have an unpleasant tendency to be episodic, and onset can be far faster than hurricanes or wildfires. Best to minimize how much of your infra has even a (supposed) 0.001% annual chance of being affected.
Nor did I imply there was. I was talking of consequences when they came to light (doubly so when they materially impact one’s company and national security).
Read Anna Karenina sometime. Tolstoy shows both the aspect of a society in which rich men having affairs was considered the norm, and the destructive effect it has on people. (And also the double standard by which women were judged much more harshly than men for having affairs). And he also, by comparing the two main relationships in the book (Vronsky's affair with Anna, and Levin's marriage to Kitty), said "It doesn't have to be this way, you can have healthy relationships if you just reject society's advice to have affairs and instead stay faithful to your wife".
I didn't like the book when I first read it (mostly because I seriously dislike Anna, and the book naturally spends a lot of time being told from her POV), but in retrospect, it's brilliant. Tolstoy has, without a single bit of moralizing, presented one of the best arguments I've seen in literature for being faithful to one's spouse and not engaging in affairs.
P.S. I should add that I don't think Tolstoy was inventing the "rich men having affairs was considered normal" aspect for the purpose of the book. I think that was what Russian society was really like at the time, and he took that aspect of society and wrote a book criticizing it, highlighting the negative effects that that attitude would have on people.
I think that "rich men having affairs" has been considered normal for most of human history. Of course, in China there were official (and unofficial) concubines, and many cultures have accepted and endorsed polygamy.
I think most of human history would want to have a word with you...
Now whether it was directly admitted to is a different thing, versus a nudge nudge wink wink thing....cue British aristocracy.
We might all have our personal views on whether it's right or wrong. Or whether it's sinful, etc. But that's orthogonal to reality.
I mean... seriously, look at literature, look at music... Heck, read the Bible? It's been a feature of all of recorded human history, that people will stray. We are human as they say...
> We might all have our personal views on whether it's right or wrong. Or whether it's sinful, etc.
> I mean... seriously, look at literature, look at music... Heck, read the Bible?
You already know what we all think about whether it's right or wrong, you've answered it yourself. I hold that, for most of human history and indeed all of modern history, it is deeply frowned upon.
> There was never a time when it wasn't deeply frowned upon either, because having an affair is not the norm.
I'm pointing out that your clutching pearls here is a bit much.
It's a bit like grandpa shaking his fist at the sky "Back in my day....we didn't lie or steal....people never cheated on their spouses...people never cheated on their taxes...people never got divorced"
Extending your logic, you could argue that for most of human history, killing other people was frowned upon. But history would like to have a word with you.
Humans have a remarkable cognitive dissonance when it comes to their own failings (I'm speaking collectively here).
Let me ask you this - have you ever downloaded an "illegal" movie or TV show? Or "pirated" a book? Or "defrauded" the government, or not declared your full income?
Or looked at somebody's item, and thought "gee, I wish I had that gadget/book/car/house/holiday as well" (i.e. coveted)?
Arguably 75% of YouTube is people coveting other people's things - but you don't see the moral police clutching pearls and going - "How could they!!!! It's deeply frowned upon!!!! We must shut down this sin!!!!"
By your yardstick - looking at a woman (or man - we are in modern times, after all) with lustful thoughts, is already adultery in His eyes. And committing divorce also makes you guilty of adultery as well. Or marrying a divorced person. And also, doing anything icky before marriage. Yet are people going around saying "We must shut down this divorce nonsense! Divorce is not the norm! It is deeply frowned upon."
I think it's more accurate to raise an eyebrow at the idea of powerful people not habitually having affairs (historically, most of which have been men in modern times).
Because power is an ability to do what one wants, and a lot of people want sex.
The person I responded to said "men," not "rich men." You're arguing a point that neither of us is arguing. It is perhaps historically interesting that rich people have been boning down since time immemorial, but I'd counter with the fact that rich people have also faced consequences – sometimes even lethal ones – for their affairs since time immemorial too. Having an affair is and has always been deeply frowned upon by human society as a whole, and society has always reacted by shaming the people who've been caught doing it.
Yes, for most of human history - homosexuality was also deeply frowned upon, and stoned people for it.
Look at say, Oscar Wilde or Alan Turing?
Are you saying we should go back to those times?
I think we need to differentiate between our own personal choices - vs trying to imprint them onto society as a whole, or bringing back public shaming for whatever moral panic we think there is. And quite frankly, NVDA share price aside - a lot of this is about deeply personal or private matters - and we don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
It's like people obsessed about which celebrity is cheating on which celebrity...it's their business shrugs. I care if they make good art.
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