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It's for any country or heritage that isn't American or Northern European. A lot of really racist or xenophobic takes on HN.
Yeah, read a lot of H1B discussions here. Racism is seething.
Are we supposed to sit and take it?
> Wiz has raised a total of $1.9 billion from a combination of venture capital funds and private investors > Wiz agreed to acquire Tel Aviv-based Raftt, a cloud-based developer collaboration platform, for $50 million in December 2023. In April 2024, the company acquired cloud detection and response startup, Gem Security, for around $350 million > Wiz was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy…
>Adallom was founded in 2012 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik, who are former members of the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200 and alumni of the Talpiot program. It's interesting that many people working in intelligence found ways to become very successful in business. I wonder what is the reason.
Imagine if all the ivy league graduates in the US would be forced to work together for the same company, for free, for 4-6 years. Would you be surprised if suddenly former employees of that company found ways to become very successful in business?
* - Technically they get something like 3rd pick and there's negotiations and it depends on what sort of roles are involved etc. In practice, conscripts have some influence on where they'll go and if you have a choice in any role in the military, you are going to pick "write code in an air-conditioned office" over any other available option.
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What a strange shorthand. 73
8200 is an Israeli spy agency, whose alumni turn up in security companies almost as often as CIA alumni turns up in US newsrooms.
The wikipedia page has a handy list of companies to avoid at all costs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200
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Okay you edited. I feel like the majority of anti-jew sentiment is from pro-palestine arab people and adjacent. At least In my country. They really believe "jews run the world" once you debate them enough they admit it and there is no changing of their minds.
> Okay you edited. Yep. Realized the confusion! > I feel like the majority of anti-jew sentiment is from pro-palestine arab people and adjacent Most people haven't met an Israeli or traveled to Israel. Also, most users on HN are Americans or Northern European who overwhelmingly use Reddit, so everyone has some weird fringe mentality about one side or the other. Honestly, most Israelis and Arabs act the same - I mean…
I have travelled to Israel a bunch of times and worked with a lot (proportionately) of Israelis and Jews. I generally really really like working with them, like their attitude and love the vibe of Tel Aviv.
That doesn't mean that I support or agree with their behaviour in Palestine particularly.
Like, I have often hated US foreign policy, but have always been OK with US citizens. The two things are very different.
Imho, and as a xoogler who's been in Google Cloud's ecosystem the past few years, Google Cloud's three big focus areas have been AI (this is an evolution from their historical focus on data, then also analytics), Distributed Cloud (Anthos++) and security (post the Mandiant acquisition). They'll never be able to compete on base infra, given their late entry into the game, lack of presence in certain markets, and the l…
>and security (post the Mandiant acquisition) As a Googler who works in GCP security, security has been a key differentiator for GCP long before the Mandiant acquisition. Google invented BeyondCorp (a primary driver of Zero Trust). Google helped create security keys (U2F, FIDO, Webauthn), and was I think the first major company to adopt them, both for employees, and for consumers. Google was one of the first major co…
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Israel is more ethnically diverse than almost every country in Europe[1], what are you talking about? Regardless, do you want us to think that it's fine for the Poles to have Poland, the English to have England, the Castilians/Basques/Catalans/etc to have Spain, etc, but it's somehow wrong for the Jews to have a country? Would you have preferred they remained scattered across the globe to be at the whims of the major…