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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Stopped reading after "shooting range".

Please don't comment like this. It's not a substantive contribution to the discussion to tell us that you stopped reading the article, and it's generally fulmination or curmudgeonliness or a shallow dismissal or something else that's against the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Connecting these two concepts like Netanyahu et. al. are constantly (insincerely) doing, is actually breeding real antisemitism. I wish more people realized this.

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Explanations aren't justifications, nor excuses. Most things happen for reasons.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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As it happens, genocide scholars disagree with you, and in any case, Gaza's population has not increased.

It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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interesting hearing his justification for working w Saudi but not Israel: He says he would never work with Israel now. “I think it’s an illegitimate and criminal government,” he told me during our gun safety training. “I mean, [Benjamin] Netanyahu is a war criminal.” When I pointed out that Saudi Arabia has its own abysmal human rights record, Masad drew a contrast. “I just think about how Replit is going to be used.…

Seems like a silly excuse. If his concern is that Israel could use Replit for military purposes, then SA is perfectly capable of doing the same. And SA has - directly or indirectly - killed more people in Yemen than Israel has in Gaza.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.

I found the piece rambling and incoherent, but I don't really see how this follows. This is an individual Jordanian founder who made a political statement. That's not really the same thing as the deep integration between the Israeli state, Zionist organizations, and big tech.

As the article mentions, Saudi Arabia is aiming to build its own deep integration with big tech, which Masad is enthusiastically participating in despite the Saudi government's own human rights issues. (He argues, quite conveniently if true, that the Replit tools he sells to the Saudi government won't be used for any of the bad stuff.)

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it happens, genocide scholars disagree with you, and in any case, Gaza's population has not increased.

It's at least plausible that the population did increase. Estimates of births during the war are larger than the casualty count that Hamas claims.

It'd be nice if Israel would let UN fact-finding missionaries or other independent research teams into Gaza to find out (in addition to not barring and/or killing humanitarian aid workers)

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explanations aren't justifications, nor excuses. Most things happen for reasons.

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Why are they racist? I assume you're not saying that some people are born racist, and other people are born anti-racist.
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