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

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Post by mbesto »

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

I think this is exactly it. Replit is a cheap and easy way to get an MVP off the ground ASAP. However, their audience is inherently hackathon attendees, not real businesses. Whether these can turn into real businesses (en masse to justify low churn and consistent SaaS ARR) or not is the real question.

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

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Post by nephihaha »

sd9 wrote: post #280
terespuwash wrote: post #278

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Your comment fails to mention that the accusations of sympathy for terrorism are lies.

I am not equipped to give an opinion on that either way. I’m just saying that building a successful business is independent of the accuracy of your ideology.

Fair comment. They are two different things.

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Post by dgroshev »

megous wrote: post #279
flumpcakes wrote: post #251

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Is there something you disagree with? My opinions were pretty neutral.

UK military is operating in Palestine (very frequent military flights from their post-colonial base in Cyprus), and is operating in Israel (when they were shooting down drones, etc.), and is supplying Israel with weapons (directly by soldier training and indirectly by allowing to use their military bases), and joined in international coverup (they have detailed intelligence on what Israel was doing in Gaza, which the…

Equating surveillance flights off the coast with "operating in the country" is tenuous at best. If that's the threshold, Russian military is already operating in Britain (see Yantar's adventures).

The mental effort a lot of people has made to pretend they aren't entirely powerless and irrelevant for stopping Israel's crimes is deeply impressive. The reality is that there's nothing the UK can do to stop Israel as long as the US is supporting them (short of going to war with both the US and Israel), but this reality is at odds with the desire to do something, so people invent and inflate leverage where there isn't any. Moreover, most of the time the very same people oppose creating more leverage for the future, as your added qualifier of "post-colonial" implies. It's depressing.

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Post by nephihaha »

cess11 wrote: post #244
UltraSane wrote: post #207

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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.

Zionism is older than the state of Israel. It is a political movement consisting mainly of christians. If you want to learn more you could do worse than follow Zachary Foster's lectures for the Rutgers Center: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zachary+foster+... The podcast The Empire Never Ended has recently finished a rather good series on Meir Kahane, one of the most important influences on contemporary…

Although Palestinian nationalism does predate modern Zionism as it was originally directed at the Ottoman Rulers.

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Post by iso1631 »

simondotau wrote: post #254
flumpcakes wrote: post #251

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Is there something you disagree with? My opinions were pretty neutral.

The internet is where every issue is a binary, nuance is scorned, and moderate views are weakness. You should know this already.

"centrist dad" is apparently an insult

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Post by nephihaha »

yoavm wrote: post #196
whatshisface wrote: post #166

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I don't think the "homeland" idea could have come from anywhere but religion. For one thing, there's a three (?) thousand year precedence.

Of course there could be, and Hertzel writes about it explicitly - the idea that Jews need a homeland because antisemitism makes it impossible for them to live within another people. In regard to religion itself, like the other post said, he couldn't really care less and even advocated for Jews to convert to Christianity at a time, seeing it as another solution to the discrimination they're facing: "I see myself as a…

There are other groups that could claim the same: Romany/Gypsies would be a big one but no one seems to want to claim a North Indian homeland for them; Sikhs might be another.

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Post by Cyph0n »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #178
Cyph0n wrote: post #156

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No, they’re not the same, and (2) is very relevant. Let me reiterate: Ukraine is a sovereign nation with a sovereign military that has the ability to enforce restrictions within its own territory . To bring your bad analogy more in line with reality on the ground, imagine if Ukraine was still part of/occupied by the USSR/Russia, and Russia enforced press restrictions across all of Ukrainian territory during a Ukraini…

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Universally, modern militaries don't like journalists wandering around near their assets. > and Russia enforced press restrictions across all of Ukrainian territory Your analogy isn't very different from reality. Russia does enforce press restrictions near military assets, including in occupied parts of Ukraine. > However, in this theoretical USSR, Ukrainians did not get Soviet ci…

Alright, your good faith arguments have convinced me! To summarize:

On one side, two sovereign nations setting press restrictions in areas they control. Standard stuff.

On the other side, a genocidal state blockading a tiny strip of land for 20 years waging a campaign that has killed & maimed so many children that we have lost count unilaterally enforcing a total international media blackout. Also standard stuff.

Silly me, how could I even argue about this? It’s just so damn obvious! Sometimes, arguing with random anons on HN pays off :)

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Post by [deleted] »

barnabee wrote: post #267
flumpcakes wrote: post #262

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That's a big statement to make - do you have any credible sources on that?

At a minimum the RAF has operated hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza. Multiple sources linked on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...

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

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Post by jokethrowaway »

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

Why don't you just use Claude?

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

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