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by benja123 5y ago
Ah yes - All 1 million Jews in Arab lands were so happy they just packed up and ran to Israel once they got the chance. Look, I have relatives and many friends that escaped those countries because they were being persecuted and in some case
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by benja123 5y ago
The fact is Christians have been persecuted in the Middle East for 100s of years. Under the Ottoman Empire Christians (and any non Muslims) had to pay a Jizya tax - which is persecution (unless you believe it is okay to tax people for bein
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by benja123 5y ago
The Christian population in the Christian towns of the Westbank (Bethlehem) and in Gaza have been decreasing steadily for the past 70 years - this has nothing to do with the occupation of the Westbank and Gaza and everything to do with pers
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by benja123 5y ago
This is really really cool and is the kind of thing schools should use to teach kids about money management. I would make the next turn button a bit more prominent as I did not notice it at first. I would also maybe add a bit more of a tut
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French court rules anti-semitic murderer won't be punished because he was high(nytimes.com)
5 points by benja123 5y ago|2 comments
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by benja123 5y ago
It really depends on the person. I am in my late 30s and experience has taught me that there is a good chance the way I am working today will be obsolete tomorrow. As a manager I embrace this and encourage the people in my team to bring ne
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by benja123 6y ago
Just moved back to iPhone and did not realize I could do that and this is part of the problem. How is a new user to ios meant to know this? There was a time when most actions had a button, that button included text that explained what the
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by benja123 6y ago
I am just imagining what happens when your implant details are stolen and used for fraud... Will you have to remove it and get a new implant? Seriously though, I am going to assume(hope) this is not real...
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by benja123 6y ago
Very old, but still super interesting. I have worked in the fraud prevention space for the past ten years. Anytime you can get a firsthand account on how it was done it is still relevant.
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by benja123 6y ago
Safari on iOS back button is awful. If I am scrolling a page, I need to scroll back up to see a back button and if my keyboard is open there is no back button no matter what I do. I normally really appreciate apple’s UX and simple designs
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by benja123 6y ago
Well, war and the resulting competition drove the space race. Once the Soviets and Americans decided that space wasn’t worth fighting over they spent their money elsewhere and we stopped advancing in that direction. I usually give a lot of
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by benja123 6y ago
I don’t think any of us can condone piracy, but I think like has often been the case the EU is scoring an own goal here. The problem is that big companies with streaming services will be able to support this, but any new up and coming strea
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by benja123 6y ago
Try games where you are static (beat saber, table tennis etc.). Do not play games where you are in any vehicle or need to walk around.
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by benja123 6y ago
I am not sure. In the past year I have actually started to see quite a few non techie friends buy the oculus quest and are avid users. I do feel like we are at a turning point where VR will become the dominant non mobile gaming device of t
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by benja123 6y ago
This is true. Another thing that drove the prices down is the fact that the countries where we outsourced manufacturing have built up their own industry and know how. They are now selling the same products for half the price directly to t
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by benja123 6y ago
The older I get the more I realize how incredibly hard it is to predict anything about the future, especially when it comes to technology. Growing up in the 90s I thought virtual reality was just around the corner - only now 30 years later
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by benja123 6y ago
Iran and Israel stopped being friends after the Islamic revolution when Iran’s government declared Israel is a sworn enemy. Hopefully one day that will change and we can be friends again as no one gains from the conflict.
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by benja123 6y ago
Israel is not against a nuclear agreement in principal. They want to make sure it has enough teeth that it can and will be enforced and that it doesn’t expire like the current one does. This is the same reason most of the gulf states are a
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by benja123 6y ago
Same, but pre COVID at least lots of people were expected to travel even if a video chat could be equally effective.
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by benja123 6y ago
I am going to have to disagree. Iran recently attacked an Israeli ship, but more importantly it continues to arm terrorist groups (note I am Israeli, so I am probably not objective here, but yes I believe Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist
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by benja123 6y ago
Why would you assume the people in Iran want the deal to fail? I would suspect that most Iranians, regardless of if they are for or against the nuclear program, just want sanction relief and don’t care how they get it. At the end of the da
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by benja123 6y ago
For me that makes it all the more interesting. I would assume that most of the people that work at those facilities are subject to intense security checks and surveillance. Despite that someone is able to either convince or trick some of t
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by benja123 6y ago
VR, like many things, can take some getting used to. But because the experience is so amazing a lot of people are willing to build up their VR tolerance. Try a different experience. One where you are “static” and everything else is moving
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by benja123 6y ago
These are probably the most highly guarded facilities in Iran. Justified or not, it is absolutely incredible that certain intelligence organizations are able to pull off these types of attacks again and again. We will probably never know ho
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by benja123 6y ago
Yes - it is suspected to be a joint project. We will never really know though as neither side will ever admit to it.
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AMA with a former credit card fraudster and identity theft(reddit.com)
16 points by benja123 6y ago|4 comments
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by benja123 6y ago
Overall I am for this, but I do wonder if most short domestic flights are business trips. I can definitely imagine a situation where if I was taking frequent day trips for work and that extra 30 minutes to an hour is the difference between
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by benja123 6y ago
With 70% of the population either vaccinated or post infection Israel appears to have reached herd immunity. I really hope it’s true! Still, despite my vaccine I am going to be careful for the next few months.
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Israel may be experiencing herd immunity to COVID(ynetnews.com)
4 points by benja123 6y ago|1 comments
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by benja123 6y ago
Also there are plenty of excellent programmers that could, but choose not to work in a FAANG for a number of reasons. In Ivan’s case he has clearly achieved success and financial freedom on his own terms, so kudos to him. Many of us would l

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