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I don't think the Israeli defense budget really goes into Israeli startups. The only related fields are drone startups and cyber startups that hardly sell domestically

okay so you don't have any proof, was just checking

Things I think this discussion constantly misses:

1. One of Google's largest engineering office is in Israel, so it has thousands of employees directly affected by the war. Obviously seeing fellow employees protest against their own country at work is at least a huge distraction. A Google employee entire family was kidnapped to Gaza, by the way.

2. Project Nimbus is a way to get cloud regions in Israel in exchange for government budgets. Although the IDF will get its share, it's naturally going to be extremely limited. There isn't going to be some killer AI running on GCP simply because you don't run classified data/software on public clouds. The fact Israel does not even have a government cloud region means the defensive nature of the workloads are going to be extremely limited, and even if it had, intelligence would not be there.

3. The fact that you are sure Israel is a reincarnation of nazi germany, apartheid south africa and scare word, scare word, genocide, doesn't make it is so or also does not mean it is a popular opinion outside your twitter echo chamber. This might also not be a common opinion in your work place, even though people around you rather keep quiet.

Do you have any proof this is running on infrastructure and support of Google? I have to say I would be extremely surprised if Israel hosts intelligence data on GCP. Extremely surprised to a level I'd suspect high negligence on their part.

The ICJ has not ruled genocide because a trial will takes years and will more importantly require evidence.

Accusations of 'genocide' toward Israel involvement in Gaza go back at least to 2006 and resurface in every war.

The fact previous wars were of a much smaller extent and none ended in the full or partial destruction of the palestinian people in Gaza.

This is why it is merely a narrative that fits perfectly into antisemitic preconceptions and is independent of reality

no it's called antisemitism. it's a long tradition of the western world washing its guilt by pointing their finger at their scapegoat the jew.

This time, they try to wash the sin of the holocaust by comparing a small-scale local war to a continent-wide genocide

The holocaust cost 6 million lives before counting homosexuals, roma people, soviet pows and others.

The Gaza war amount of casualties according to hamas numbers, is currently 6% of the casualties in the syrian civil war, which happens 400km away from gaza and no one calls a genocide.

by comparing that war to real genocides or the holocaust you simply minimize the word which refers to systematic murder of a people.

by minimizing that word you deprive the real people that are being murdered all around the world from political protection as all war is now 'genocide'

Probably 6 (?) years too late but it's about time Google handles their vast amount of employees who feel like they own the company.

Shame it happened after they lost LLMs to OpenAI through misguided AI "ethics" groups who are really the same people as above

a better example of the banality of evil:

denying the holocaust through comparing it to other dissimilar events in order to minimize the catastrophe and reduce cultural complicity

it's not that rating is what's missing, github stars are kind of a proxy for that

what's missing are curated lists of projects you need to use for a specific reason: you want to setup a web site? which framework do you use, db, api style, formatter, linter, etc what about SIMD libraries? Java unit testing?

Statistical models are used for at least 80 years to calculate the size of bombs when hitting targets and to factor in civilian casualties. Today's statistical models have much better PR but it is not much different.

Also war is bad, but sometimes it is a necessity when the alternative is worse. It is always quite easy to cast yourself as a neutral moral judge on the sidelines, but we all saw what happened to the USA in the early 2000s when faced with a lesser threat than Israel.

With the way the world is heading what we are hearing are simply echoes of the pre-ww2 appeasement attitudes which of course are a great way to prevent future deaths and war

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