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Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Cyph0n wrote: post #62
pcthrowaway wrote: post #59

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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)

Or even international media outside of proctored propaganda trips. They obviously have learned their lesson since the 1982 invasion.

It’s perfectly normal for militaries to have press restrictions in conflict zones, for opsec among other good reasons. No one bats an eye when Ukraine does it for example.

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Post by nailer »

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

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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.

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

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Post by nailer »

whatshisface wrote: post #135
nailer wrote: post #28

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The focus on a particular location is a religious one (in the scriptures there was a Jewish homeland before Israel or Egypt, and Israel is singled out because God told them to go), but it's also a selective one that ignores all the times God arranged for Israel not to be there; and crucially does not stop and wait for His opinion about the present. It is the most dangerous kind of religious opinion: one invented by u…

Herzl makes no religious argument, he is fairly close to an atheist. That’s why I mentioned people should read the book or a summary before commenting on the matter.

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Post by krainboltgreene »

dralley wrote: post #129
ebbi wrote: post #124

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Well there's Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya etc which would tally ~300k civilian deaths alone. Given the blatantly false pretences that America invaded Iraq under, and the sectarian violence that significantly flared post-Saddam, I don't see why you'd not want to involve Iraq in the stats?

I accept US responsibility for a great many of the civilian deaths caused in Vietnam. I don't accept US responsibility for Islamists of different varieties blowing up each other's markets and places of worship with weapons provided by Iran and Syria.

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Post by nailer »

mattfrommars wrote: post #84
incrudible wrote: post #76

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Jews left Arab stats on their own accord because of rise of Zionism. Arab were the only folks who accepted Jews in the first place as they sought refuge from Nazi Europe

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

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Post by Cyph0n »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #141
Cyph0n wrote: post #62

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Or even international media outside of proctored propaganda trips. They obviously have learned their lesson since the 1982 invasion.

It’s perfectly normal for militaries to have press restrictions in conflict zones, for opsec among other good reasons. No one bats an eye when Ukraine does it for example.

Bad analogy, for two reasons:

1. Ukraine’s media restrictions are virtually non-existent when compared to those enforced by the Israelis in Gaza, including the intentional bombing of media offices. Keep in mind that Hamas has repeatedly called upon Israel to allow foreign press and NGOs to visit and see what’s happening on the ground.

2. The Ukraine war is a conventional war between sovereign nations with standing militaries with equivalent capabilities (air force, anti-air defenses, armored vehicles, bomb shelters, etc). The Gaza genocide is an onslaught by a sovereign nation with a well equipped military against a militant group in a dense urban area. Leveling entire city blocks when fighting against an opponent that has no air force or anti-air capabilities is not only unimpressive, but also breaks the principle of proportionality.

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Post by immibis »

WalterBright wrote: post #137
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?

Programming is mostly a craft. Engineering would be more like designing algorithms.

That's research. Engineering would be programming, but well. Taking into account future maintenance concerns and so on. Seems like the software world doesn't do a lot of it.
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