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

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Post by darubedarob »

cholantesh wrote: post #26
didibus wrote: post #19

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.

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Post by lostlogin »

xdennis wrote: post #118
siltcakes wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Returning land to the people it was brutally taken from is not “ethic cleansing”. The right of return is still valid.

No land was stolen. All land was purchased before the war. All land taken after wars was taken after wars started by the Arabs. That's always been the case with nations who lost wars. Germany lost the war and lost land because of it. Should Germany take back land that was "brutally taken from them"? Or should they maybe just accept that they shouldn't have started the war? The Germans certainly have accepted that.

If a war has finished, should the victor still be able to keep taking land off the loser? What’s the duration of that right?

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Post by siltcakes »

dralley wrote: post #163
krainboltgreene wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What is your preferred term for individuals and groups whose stated goal is to create a non-pluralistic religious state advantaging specifically their own religious sect, and whose means involves committing public mass killing of civilians along sectarian religious lines?

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Post by conception »

thedelanyo wrote: post #131

"one being so good that anyone can become a software engineer". Of course, smartphones' cameras are so good and accessible, but not anyone who became a professional photographer? And of course, isn't software engineering far beyond than simply writing code in any form - whether in English or in symbols?

Yes but smartphones decimated photography jobs, especially on the low end.

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Post by mjevans »

siltcakes wrote: post #109
dralley wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Less than half of Israelis are Askenazi, and unless your solution is to "ethnically cleanse" by sending people back to the countries their grandparents fled, it hardly matters. Americans and Europeans have the false notion that Israeli Jews are predominantly European. They are not.

Returning land to the people it was brutally taken from is not “ethic cleansing”. The right of return is still valid.

At some point, all land has been taken either by direct force, or by the threat of force.

All land, everywhere. It is NOT a natural right that anyone owns any land, nor that any countries exist. That is something everyone's ancestors fought each other for and created as a system of human society.

Of course that's written in the past tense. Facing reality rather than the fantasy presented in history books and documentaries; not only did our ancestors do that, it hasn't stopped. The bloodshed still happens today in so many places. Those we might hear about in the news, and others forgotten even in the news because it is considered normal and thus ignored.

We are not yet a species of plenty. Scarcity still exists, at the very least in the real form of land where people want to be.

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Post by paglaghoda »

replit is actually quite popular among teenagers and basically third world youngsters trying to spin off a service or a "product" of their own.

- i mean yes u cannot make money out of teenagers but damn replit's Vibe coding tool is fucking good. Better than Lovable or Bolt any day.

just to give u a perspective from a 20year old kid from a 3rd world county

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Post by thesmtsolver2 »

thedelanyo wrote: post #131

"one being so good that anyone can become a software engineer". Of course, smartphones' cameras are so good and accessible, but not anyone who became a professional photographer? And of course, isn't software engineering far beyond than simply writing code in any form - whether in English or in symbols?

Just like word processing software and LLMs meant anyone can become a journalist. /s

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Post by truetraveller »

paglaghoda wrote: post #187

replit is actually quite popular among teenagers and basically third world youngsters trying to spin off a service or a "product" of their own. - i mean yes u cannot make money out of teenagers but damn replit's Vibe coding tool is fucking good. Better than Lovable or Bolt any day. just to give u a perspective from a 20year old kid from a 3rd world county

which country are you from?
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