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

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Post by lukan »

csallen wrote: post #167
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea is that as money gets so concentrated, so does real political power. And with that concentration of political power comes extreme disregard for the opinions of the masses. I think it's a fair argument that the world has always catered to the will of rich people, but the difference now is that rich people are so unfathomably rich, and so much wealth is concentrated in so few.

> but the difference now is that rich people are so unfathomably rich... Compared to when? How many times in history has wealth been less concentrated? As far as I'm aware, for almost all of history post-agriculture, wealth was highly concentrated while the average person lived in abject poverty (think: kings vs peasants). The mid-20th century was an era of mass prosperity in the US and parts of Europe, but it was an…

"The mid-20th century was an era of mass prosperity in the US and parts of Europe, but it was an anomalous few decades, not the norm."

But to those living and remembering that era - it was the norm that they (we) compare with, so it is the reference that matters.

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

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Post by wtcactus »

What an interesting tile. Is the value of his AI company expected to overcome the 'terrorist sympathizer' allegation? Is this how it works always or just when the person is inside the present Overton Window?

Let's try Elon Musk then: "He was called a 'fascist'. Now, his tech company is valued $1.5T"

This is the way, right?

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

conception wrote: post #184
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.

Pareto principle in action - smartphones are good enough for 80% of use cases. And so is AI for a lot of junior-level work.

The problem is, when there are no trainee and junior positions (and, increasingly, intermediate) being filled any more... there is no way for people to rise to senior levels. And that is going to screw up many industries hard.

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

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Post by pcurve »

verisimi wrote: post #195
anonzzzies wrote: post #104

Of all the tools I try and review, replit remains to be simply the worst in my opinion. I struggle to do anything useful with it except trivial hello world type of stuff. The bubble is real.

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Personally speaking, I get much better outcome from Lovable than Replit using same prompts.

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

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Post by tguvot »

cholantesh wrote: post #172
FunnyUsername wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels. >the casualty count that Hamas claims The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.

4000 deliveries in march of 2025. 50000 pregnant woman [1]

50,000 births by july of 2024 (starting with october 7th 2023) [2]

you can sum and extrapolate the numbers. you can probably find more numbers about births

[1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...

[2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...

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

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Post by lukan »

throw310822 wrote: post #200
Marsymars wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The crux of the problem is that there are multiple peoples with reasonably legitimate claims to the same indigeneity.

No there aren't. Where is the legitimacy if Jewish claims to the land? That it says so in their religious texts? Ffs.

Maybe because most of them were born there and also their parents and grandparents?

That is called birthright and the way I see it, it applies to both groups. And the conflict will never be solved (without large scale genocide), if both groups largely negate the other groups rights.

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

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Post by UltraSane »

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.

What does "Zionist" mean to you? I honestly don't understand what it means when Israel has existed as a Jewish state for 76 years and seems likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

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

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Post by throw310822 »

lukan wrote: post #206
throw310822 wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No there aren't. Where is the legitimacy if Jewish claims to the land? That it says so in their religious texts? Ffs.

Maybe because most of them were born there and also their parents and grandparents? That is called birthright and the way I see it, it applies to both groups. And the conflict will never be solved (without large scale genocide), if both groups largely negate the other groups rights.

You're right, expelling Israelis from Palestine would be a crime exactly as it's been a crime expelling Palestinians. While I believe that Jews had no right in the first place to immigrate there, this doesn't change the status of their descendants who are born there and whose families are born there.

But let's be clear on this: Jews that are not currently in Israel have no right to immigrate there. Jews that are in Israel have no right on any part of the land that isn't already part of Israel proper; and finally, Jews (exactly as much as Palestinians do) have a right to life, property and safety but not necessarily to their own political entity.

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

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Post by anonzzzies »

verisimi wrote: post #195
anonzzzies wrote: post #104

Of all the tools I try and review, replit remains to be simply the worst in my opinion. I struggle to do anything useful with it except trivial hello world type of stuff. The bubble is real.

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It is not political; I did not know the owner had political opinions. I started using Replit before it had AI, had some ideas and they gave me a free year of AI last year when I complained it is so far behind the rest. And imho, it still is.

Like the other comment here: I just have much better outcomes with the same prompts with other tools. That is all I meant to say.

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

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Post by user_7832 »

truetraveller wrote: post #190
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?

Going by the username, I'm guessing India or perhaps Bangadesh
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