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Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military

51 points by tehf0x 2y ago

phmqk76 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- tehf0x 2y ago
  Employees, investors and customers who don't want to falicitate the horrors going on in Gaza I would guess.
- bensmoif 2y ago
  Everyone who cares about the use of technology to conduct warfare, especially the corporate power leveraged to enhance the killing power of the state.
hdlothia 2y ago
Israel is a high tech hub. Hopefully some new advances can come out of this collaboration that make us all safer.
- austin-cheney 2y ago
  Doesn’t that sound somewhat similar to hoping pharmaceuticals strike partnerships with African warlords to test what could one day be some new amazing drug. It just sounds grossly unethical so as to directly extract profits from intentional human harm on a large scale. I suspect I would feel completely different about this if the Israeli military weren’t currently in a conflict indiscriminately killing dozens or hundreds of civilians as collateral damage in pursuit of single targets, or if they weren’t intentionally and illegally taking land from people in an area that isn’t a conflict zone at all.
  - hdlothia 2y ago
    I can understand why you would feel that way.
UrineSqueegee 2y ago
>a Wired investigation found public statements Well then it's not really hidden is it then? Google has deep ties with the Tel Aviv start up world. Their plan currently is to buy Cybersecurity company Wiz for 26b.
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Cupertino95014 2y ago
... and the problem is? The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.
- bensmoif 2y ago
  Many people believe what you're describing is the problem.
  - Cupertino95014 2y ago
    Many, perhaps, but nowhere close to a majority.
    - sundalia 2y ago
      Would appreciate data.
      - Cupertino95014 2y ago
        I gave it up above
        sundalia 2y ago
        Then don't make claims you can't justify :)
        Cupertino95014 2y ago
        > Then doesn't make any sense. I did justify them and told you where.
        sundalia 2y ago
        (?)
Protostome 2y ago
Great to hear :)

51 points by tehf0x 2y ago

phmqk76 2y ago

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dang 2y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
tehf0x 2y ago
Employees, investors and customers who don't want to falicitate the horrors going on in Gaza I would guess.
bensmoif 2y ago
Everyone who cares about the use of technology to conduct warfare, especially the corporate power leveraged to enhance the killing power of the state.

hdlothia 2y ago

Israel is a high tech hub. Hopefully some new advances can come out of this collaboration that make us all safer.

austin-cheney 2y ago
Doesn’t that sound somewhat similar to hoping pharmaceuticals strike partnerships with African warlords to test what could one day be some new amazing drug. It just sounds grossly unethical so as to directly extract profits from intentional human harm on a large scale. I suspect I would feel completely different about this if the Israeli military weren’t currently in a conflict indiscriminately killing dozens or hundreds of civilians as collateral damage in pursuit of single targets, or if they weren’t intentionally and illegally taking land from people in an area that isn’t a conflict zone at all.
- hdlothia 2y ago
  I can understand why you would feel that way.

UrineSqueegee 2y ago

>a Wired investigation found public statements Well then it's not really hidden is it then? Google has deep ties with the Tel Aviv start up world. Their plan currently is to buy Cybersecurity company Wiz for 26b.

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Cupertino95014 2y ago

... and the problem is? The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.

bensmoif 2y ago
Many people believe what you're describing is the problem.
- Cupertino95014 2y ago
  Many, perhaps, but nowhere close to a majority.
  - sundalia 2y ago
    Would appreciate data.
    - Cupertino95014 2y ago
      I gave it up above
      - sundalia 2y ago
        Then don't make claims you can't justify :)
        Cupertino95014 2y ago
        > Then doesn't make any sense. I did justify them and told you where.
        sundalia 2y ago
        (?)

Protostome 2y ago

Great to hear :)