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offtopic, but it's interesting how large of a discrepancy there is between the length of your comment and how much time i'd have to spend explaining background info to a non-programmer to get them to understand why this is funny
Oy vey!
You've got to love how spewing such casual bigotry against random people doesn't ring any alarm bells for people like this Paul person. I'm sure he considers himself a "progressive" lol.
It's also a modern C.
If you enjoy C and wish it was less verbose and more modern, try Go.
You can also go all the way and get a set of organist foot pedals. Might need to invest in a bench though.
Arab-Israelis are around 20% of the population and they're not required to enlist. Some religious groups, religious women specifically, are also not required to enlist.
There are exemptions for people with disabilities, health issues with risk factors, extreme poverty, problematic family situations, teen parents, etc, as you would expect there to be in any western democracy.
For any other healthy citizen that's not exempt by law - males in particular - military service is as compulsory as paying taxes.
It is a choice
I'll never understand why people who aren't Israelis, don't live in Israel, can't read or speak Hebrew, and probably have never even bothered to talk to an Israeli, for some bizarre reason feel qualified to talk so authoritatively about a place half way around the globe that they've never been to.
EDIT Editing your post like this to hide how wrong you were after the fact is misleading, but by now we've seen that this is typical behavior for people in your ideological camp.
Why wouldn't he make that choice?
I don't know where you live, but he lives in a country that's surrounded by theocratic dictatorships, failed states, and Islamist terrorists who livestream murders and kidnappings.
His choice seems perfectly rational to me.
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 majority Christian and Muslim populations in other countries? Historically that arrangement always ended up very badly for the Jews. I'm old enough to remember a time when western leftists saw eye to eye with the Jews about this, rather than take the side of fundamentalist dictatorships and radical Islamists.
I wouldn't be surprised if you consider yourself a progressive, but the comments you posted on this thread clearly show your biases and bigotry. Be better.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ethnic_an...
Would you have written the same sentence only with "China" and "Tiananmen Square"?
It's really interesting to see these small mask-off moments when relatively veteran HN users allow themselves to indulge in such obvious bigotry as this comment.
Weird how you only really see this happening when the post has some relation to the Jewish state.
"But Chomsky said so!"
Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel, and the rest of the ludicrous claims and blood libels in your post are at about the same level of accuracy.
At least you're consistent.
Of course the founder is a normal civilian. Israel has mandatory conscription so you'd expect any normal civilian to also have served in the IDF at some point.
It might sound weird to people from the US and many other western nations. Most people there aren't concerned with serving in the military - they either leave it to working class folks to serve, or they don't really have any neighboring enemies.
The Israelis aren't as privileged unfortunately. Israel requires all its citizens to serve so that its military is large enough and strong enough to defend against attacks from the many regressive and murderous regimes that surround it, or even better, deter them from even trying to attack.
How dare the founders be born in a country!
I started watching the video, and at 0:40 he asked Siri to "close all my apps". At that point my own iPhone's Siri enthusiastically explained to me how I can close all the apps on my phone.
Windows does this very well since at least a few years back. When connected via Remote Desktop any native application will get the behavior you describe, so the UI gets updated with almost no latency.
Applications which bypass the native APIs to render their window contents, in particular video players or games, get a compressed streamed video which has very decent performance. The video quality seems to be dynamic as well, so if there's a scene with very few changes you can see the quality progressively improve.
All of this is done per window, so a small VLC window playing a video in a corner gets the video treatment, while everything else still works like native UI.
What are their chances of surviving in an Arab-dominated Palestine?
Absolutely zero, and the people proposing this know that. That tells you all you need to know, really.
[1] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/maps/jew...
No one has a right to an ethnostate
Israel is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the western world. In particular, it is more ethnically diverse than almost every single country in Europe. What ethnostate?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...
I don't usually reply to meta posts, but I can't help but agree with this.
As much as I appreciate the work moderators do here any other day of the year, it was disappointing that there was no discussion allowed on October 7th - indeed, every thread was nuked - when 0.1% of the Jews in the world were murdered in a single day.
When Russia attacked Ukraine that was very much allowed to be discussed, and rightly so.
I pay for YouTube Premium, but let's not kid ourselves. Eventually we'll both pay and be made to watch ads.
You can also set the skipping jumps to 5 seconds in the settings
If your land was occupied by an invading force armed and financed by the US and its allies would you sit back and do nothing while that force murdered your people and stole your property, or would you have done exactly what Hamas did on October the 7th?
No, I would have accepted one of the many peace proposals the other side offered.
Regardless, your framing of how there are only two binary options – (1) doing nothing to advance my political goals, or (2) resorting to the most savage terrorism imaginable – and no other options between them is appalling and telling.
I find it utterly perplexing how we as a society agree with a situation wherein critical communication infrastructure is allowed to be controlled by private corporations with no regulatory guidance or oversight.
It should be possible to come up with a framework based on open standards where interoperability and migration between providers is possible, while leaving some space for innovations and extensions.
I honestly consider it to be the best video game of all time. It holds up surprisingly well, which is pretty amazing since it's from more than 30 years ago.
The site rules are what they are. Besides, I'm not sure your search will be as fruitful as you imagine, mostly because reality has a well known liberal bias.
That was true in a significant number of preference pages in the old Settings.app as well. It's probably the same code paths under the hood of the new UI.
I think you meant the movie Don't Look Up.
There were dozens of us, dozens!
What a weird coincidence. I thought at first this would be about the Guild Wars game, but turns out they both have something to do with monks and 55:
I'm curious, how are you guys playing? 1vs1 or together playing single player?
I'm always impressed that people manage to start playing the series today, with Civ 6, considering how many mechanics and systems it's accumulated over the years.
I'm also using Slack on Firefox and I'm not doing any user agent spoofing.
This is a brilliant analogy