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Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by TulliusCicero »

gumballindie wrote: post #17

Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…

Unfortunately, the status quo in Israel/Palestine is pretty garbage, and practically guaranteed to lead to conflict.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by gumballindie »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #21
gumballindie wrote: post #17

Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…

Unfortunately, the status quo in Israel/Palestine is pretty garbage, and practically guaranteed to lead to conflict.

I know but i seriously wish there was a way to end all these boring primordial habits of ours and focus on stuff that matters, as a collective humanity.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

barcode_feeder wrote: post #3

I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?

There is no interest in showing Israel being attacked but there is plenty of political discussion such as daily flamewars about ancient misdeeds of US three letter agencies (but almost never discussions when these agencies shut down a botnet or do something positive).

These rules are either applied unfairly or the community is full of shills that make it appear that way.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by signatoremo »

DSingularity wrote: post #16
hotnfresh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a guaranteed unproductive flame war. The exact same flame war that’s been happening about as long as the Internet has existed. It’s really boring at this point.

Just stop at unproductive. We don’t expect comments on HN to upend the power-structures which fuel this ongoing conflict. Calling it boring — as if it had the potential to entertain - seems an bit insensitive to all the victims of the current and past hostilities.

Boring in the sense that any such threads are predictably flamewar. Not that the tragedy is boring.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by vel0city »

gumballindie wrote: post #17

Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…

> We have like endless space to colonise

I'll trade you a hundred acres of land on Pluto for your house. Sounds like a good trade?

Let's solve the crisis. Move all the Palestinians to Venus and all the Israelis to Mars. So much land available. Problem solved!

Location, location, location.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by gumballindie »

vel0city wrote: post #26
gumballindie wrote: post #17

Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on. We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually…

> We have like endless space to colonise I'll trade you a hundred acres of land on Pluto for your house. Sounds like a good trade? Let's solve the crisis. Move all the Palestinians to Venus and all the Israelis to Mars. So much land available. Problem solved! Location, location, location.

Sounds good to me. But you need to have ownership documents for it and means for transport. I’ll trade anytime.

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by temp10723 »

barcode_feeder wrote: post #3

I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?

The Ukraine/Russia war was OK[1] to post, so it seems weird that Israel/Palestinian wouldn't be.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by temp10723 »

bobthepanda wrote: post #8
barcode_feeder wrote: post #3

I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The guideline criteria say not to submit flamebait, to submit things with interesting, novel intellectual discussion, and generally nothing that is on tv news. I would imagine that the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict would violate all three.

> I would imagine that the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict would violate all three.

So would the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, and yet[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336

Re: Internet traffic in Israel surged 170% right after the Hamas attack

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Post by vel0city »

gumballindie wrote: post #27
vel0city wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We have like endless space to colonise I'll trade you a hundred acres of land on Pluto for your house. Sounds like a good trade? Let's solve the crisis. Move all the Palestinians to Venus and all the Israelis to Mars. So much land available. Problem solved! Location, location, location.

Sounds good to me. But you need to have ownership documents for it and means for transport. I’ll trade anytime.

Why should I provide your means of transport? Did the person you bought your home from provide you transport as well? You're getting so much extra land! You figure out how to make it useful.

Sure seems like you don't actually want it if you need me to subsidize you by billions of dollars to use it. Maybe it's not a great deal?

Maybe there's a reason why the Israelis and Palestinians are fighting over that land instead of just flying off to another planet. Not that I agree with the violence, but suggesting they just go colonize another planet instead isn't really a good answer.

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