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Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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

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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...

"Robot boots 30,000 feet above the ground" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

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

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Typical hasbara whataboutism, equating a statement by one guy that may or may not have been said 70 years ago to a livestream slaughter we just witnessed, where more than 50% of Israelis say "not enough force was used", not just offhanded remarks by radical leaders, which there are literal gigabytes of from Israelis of all walks of life. Just open up any popular political figure's Twitter and you'll see the most horr…

It isn't whataboutism to point out a wrong claim. Which statement is "a statement by one guy that may or may not have been said 70 years ago"? I gave four. I have made no claims about the current situation (and there was also plenty of action in 1948).

It is when your trying to deflect. Your source is Benny Morris lmao, that's one unreliable source for all "four statements"

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

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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

A friend used Replit to prove out a startup (it worked) and what worked for him is that Replit has a whole platform integrated with their coding assistant that include hosting and backend runtimes. So his cycle time of vibe-deploy-test was very short and very simple for someone non-technical.

No need to think about how/where to deploy, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), etc. Just vibe and deploy.

(He did end up moving off the platform once he had enough validation)

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

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He and Paul Graham, truly are the only people speaking out against Zionism though. The rest of the VC industry is either staunchly pro-Israel or silent on the matter.

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Yes, the apartheid genoicdal terrorist state currently blocking aid should cease to exist in it's current form, that's a basic humanitarian position right now, hope that helps

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

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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…

In the past you could find rich people on the battlefield. The last time America tried that was in Vietnam.

That is what has changed.

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

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well, it's not a high bar – these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action" or "she was murdered by ICE" is called a terrorist sympathizer

> these days anyone who says "I support Palestine Action"

You mean the group that sneaked in and damaged a bunch of UK Military’s planes on a military base? Was this the action that put them into the terrorist category?

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