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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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Post by cess11 »

FunnyUsername wrote: post #563
cess11 wrote: post #561

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Sharing the land with european colonists that used terrorism and ethnic cleansing to remove and to a lesser extent subjugate the native population? Why would they?

If you're suggesting that a peoples' right to live in their homeland is forfeited as a result of immigration, terrorism or ethnic cleansing, that would be bad news for Palestinians. Gaza and WB Area A are Jew-free zones, and there were around 30k rocket attacks from Gaza alone.

Quite the opposite, I'm suggesting the palestinians still have a right to their homelands even though europeans have settled, terrorised and displaced them.

Yeah, what about "rocket attacks"? Are they somehow more devastating than the US-israeli armory? If someone spits in front of my feet, then I can have them watch while I beat their family to death?

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

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Post by ActionHank »

simonw wrote: post #572
ActionHank wrote: post #568

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What is the value of this piece? Who benefits from people reading it?

It's clearly access journalism - the Replit press team set this up, and the SF Standard took the opportunity. For Replit it's a good way to raise the profile of their founder, important for this phase of the company. The SF Standard get an interesting profile out if this because Masad is an unconventional shape of founder. The Palestinian angle is a great hook to build a story around, especially right now. The Standa…

See my earlier point that this article is meant to read like fiction for a demographic that are not actually involved in using any of this tech on the daily.

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

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Post by oa335 »

cbeach wrote: post #543
oa335 wrote: post #516

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> nor does it literally say “for Jews only.” You are incorrect. The official policy of the current government of Israel is ”the Jewish people have an exclusive right on all the land” between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.” per the coalition agreement the Likud-led government made in 2022: https://archive.is/EYGLU

What’s the source for that quote? The article you posted is from a news source I’ve never heard of and doesn’t cite its sources

https://www.axios.com/authors/barak_ravid

Here’s the coalition agreement, see article 118:

https://main.knesset.gov.il/mk/government/Documents/CA37-RZ....

Here’s another analysis of the coalition agreement that includes that same quote:

https://www.ofekcenter.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/wha...

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

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Post by megous »

dgroshev wrote: post #293
megous wrote: post #279

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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…

It's not off the coast, they're circling directly over the territory of Palestine, without invitation from Palestinian state, and against interests of Palestinians.

Post-colonial only implies that Cyprus was a UK colony, and now is not, but still retains some bases in there.

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Post by lazyasciiart »

yoavm wrote: post #358
lazyasciiart wrote: post #283

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Damn those racist Haredi Jews, right?

Don't get too excited about their views - they very much believe that the land belongs to Jews, they just think they should wait for the Messiah to give us the signal before going there. It's funny how people associate their views with humanism: they are simply extremely religious and on this specific question, the current result of their extreme beliefs happen to align with yours.

Oh, I am under no impression that they are less than batshit religious. But they are a very clear counterexample to the bullshit claim that I was responding to.

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Post by UltraSane »

cess11 wrote: post #580
UltraSane wrote: post #579

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The explicit goal of Hamas is the ethnic cleansing of Israel of all Jews.

No, it is not. Here's Ahmed Yassin on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DY0O9O9xR2Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuIbjxXC9k He was assassinated by the israelis, who were actually doing ethnic cleansing for decades before that. It's weird how you care more about some future atrocity you fantasise about than actual atrocities.

Hamas's official position, expressed in its original 1988 charter and repeatedly affirmed by many of its leaders' statements and actions (including the October 7, 2023 attack), is to destroy the state of Israel and establish an Islamic state in its place "from the river to the sea". The 1988 charter explicitly called for the killing of Jews as a religious duty.

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

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Post by smsm42 »

simonw wrote: post #556
smsm42 wrote: post #554

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A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that! A: That policy actually does not have anything about this. B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy! Sure, this sounds extremely convincing. (and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)

I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.

Injecting Gaza, assault rifles and vague implication of conspiracy (with Jews lurking on the background because you must respect the founding pillars of the genre) into an article that is supposedly about tech startup founder - is exactly what I expect from top ethical journalistic standards. Not.

I mean I get it. Who doesn't have an AI code generation tool now? It's like having a website in the first dotcom boom era (yes, Gandalf, I was there). No pop, no buzz, not hot and juicy enough. But add a little of intifada there, a fight against some murky forces of darkness (that throw hundreds of millions of vc money at the intrepid hero) - and maybe you got something. That's how journalism is done.

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Post by UltraSane »

cess11 wrote: post #581
FunnyUsername wrote: post #563

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're suggesting that a peoples' right to live in their homeland is forfeited as a result of immigration, terrorism or ethnic cleansing, that would be bad news for Palestinians. Gaza and WB Area A are Jew-free zones, and there were around 30k rocket attacks from Gaza alone.

Quite the opposite, I'm suggesting the palestinians still have a right to their homelands even though europeans have settled, terrorised and displaced them. Yeah, what about "rocket attacks"? Are they somehow more devastating than the US-israeli armory? If someone spits in front of my feet, then I can have them watch while I beat their family to death?

It is really despicable the way people like you completely dismiss Hamas atrocities like what they did on Oct 7 2023 when 1,219 people were killed by the attacks: at least 810 civilians (including 38 children and 71 foreign nationals) and at least 379 members of the security forces. 364 civilians were killed while they were attending the Nova music festival and many more wounded. Israel exists and the Palestinians will never be able to defeat it and they are very stupid for trying and failing for 76 years.

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

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Post by cbeach »

oa335 wrote: post #583
cbeach wrote: post #543

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s the source for that quote? The article you posted is from a news source I’ve never heard of and doesn’t cite its sources

https://www.axios.com/authors/barak_ravid Here’s the coalition agreement, see article 118: https://main.knesset.gov.il/mk/government/Documents/CA37-RZ.... Here’s another analysis of the coalition agreement that includes that same quote: https://www.ofekcenter.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/wha...

Thank you.

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

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Post by mannanj »

danpalmer wrote: post #125
mannanj wrote: post #113

So I got excited and used Replit because I heard about it in a Diary of a Ceo podcast. Spent days working on my project, it was working in their unique tech stack and when I did local git commits it locked some files and conflicted with their replit agent also doing git operations and got stuck in a loop where the fix was to do a git reset --hard and reset the state. Unfortunately their tooling locks me out from doin…

Unsurprising, the Diary of a CEO guy is a snake oil salesman. Awful interviewer, but very good at self promotion.

Snake oil salesman is a rather deceptive and false accusation isn't it? He's launched, invested in and maintains success in multi-million and billion dollar companies. Snake oil sales don't get you that far.
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