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What would happen if that part was removed and 100 years from now, another group tried to claim Israel as their self-determined government? Every time Jewish people try to be a pea…

You're right, destroying Israel Hamas-style (as described in https://news.yahoo.com/hamas-member-says-repeat-attacks-0656... ) is different from killing Jews. One involves Hamas re…

Have you even read the actual legal text [1] for the Nation-State law? It basically just says that Israel will always retain certain elements of Jewish culture such as the flag, an…

TIL. But even if you count nationality-based mistreatment as apartheid, Israel contains many Palestinians: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_citizens_of_Isra... To be fai…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_... https://news.yahoo.com/hamas-member-says-repeat-attacks-0656...

There's also their senior official saying they will essentially repeat the Oct 7 attack until Israel is completely destroyed https://news.yahoo.com/hamas-member-says-repeat-attacks…

It was removed from their 2017 charter but they still do "pay for slay" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...

I dislike repeating myself but once again, per Wikipedia, apartheid is a "system of institutionalised racial segregation". That Amnesty article contradicts that definition. It's ta…

TBF- Mosiuoa Lekota, who literally went to jail with Nelson Mandela, should probably be listened to more than the random journalist you cited. I read the article though and it basi…

I disagree on the apartheid claim and so does former anti-apartheid activist and South African politician Mosiuoa Lekota [1]. Per Wikipedia, Apartheid is a "system of institutional…

Separate world: definitely. I remember a random real estate agent inviting my friend to a party and saying "bring your good looking friends" while giving me the stink eye from a di…

I had a manager who was obsessed with "velocity" and I spent 4 hours per week on time estimates. None of it was accurate except tasks like tiny CSS changes. Yeah, if you want to re…

I think multiple inheritance will always scare me. What order do the superclass inits run in? What happens if they do conflicting things? What if some superclasses call super().__i…

I bet humans could have done a lot better than -$881M, and it wouldn't have been very costly to employ them. How many homes did Zillow iBuy in total, 10-20k? If it takes 5 minutes …

Gent is an awesome city! Beautiful cathedrals and castles, a nice downtown riverside area, good art museums, lots of terraced pubs/cafes with excellent beer selections, plenty of s…

I think the main complaint about US public transit is that it's dirty and dangerous. If it was super safe and clean in+around all stations and on all trains/buses at all times, peo…

What about contact tracing apps? Tracing won't work unless you know who was nearby each infected person. It's difficult to find that info unless a big portion of people are using a…

The words "contact" and "tracing" didn't even appear once in the article. Are people outside of Asia not even considering test'n'trace as a possibility? Privacy concerns aside, it …

When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? In a 100% self driving environment, edge cases are probably much easier to rea…

Not to be a total smartass, but if your Python codebase is not that big yet, then the correct answer is none of the above- rewrite in a compiled language if you find the lack of st…

I agree. When I'm dropping someone off, I often drive past the intended drop point, let them out across the street, etc, because there is an unreasonably high cost to hitting the e…

"Random engineer", or guy who sold a company for $130M after a patent-induced nightmare? https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit...

Yeah, I too wouldn't want to cycle in that level of air pollution. There's a sweet spot to hit for level of comfort & safety while cycling. I just think safety is the bigger issue,…

In most cities, especially in America, there's a vicious cycle: 0) Cycling is dangerous because there are too many vehicles on the road 1) There are so many vehicles on the road be…

wtf were they thinking when they named it that? if any non joke product with "butt" in the name ever succeeds, I will eat my hat.