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by ido 3y ago
Who would be a good name to suggest? I can’t imagine SAP would do a good job at it either.
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by ido 3y ago
> It really must be bizarre watching an empire crumble. I can only liken it to the immediate aftershock of Brexit in London. Surely there's an even closer comparison within living memory: the fall of the soviet union.
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by ido 3y ago
I think if Netanyahu loses the next elections and is replaced with more moderate voices (like Ganz or former PM Lapid), and if the US/NATO/UN peace keeping forces will agree to PLO's leadership wishes to back them into taking
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by ido 3y ago
The problem is that there is no "Israel should or shouldn't do" - countries don't have agency like that, their governments do. And those currently in power intentionally wanted to make a peace deal harder to achieve, bec
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by ido 3y ago
We didn't have the UN to organize international agreements and compromises before 1945. I don't think there's any other realistic chance for peace, like the Israelis the Palestinians are too stubborn to simply give up and sur
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by ido 3y ago
Since 2005 I've only lived in Israel for about 1 year. I currently live in Berlin. For my family, the downsides of immigration are too great vs the downsides of upper-middle class living in metropolitan Tel Aviv. Israel is the only pla
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by ido 3y ago
Just like some Israelis support expelling all Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan and settling these territories with Israelis. The only "side" that's not wrong (IMO) is the one that condemns violence against civilians and is fo
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by ido 3y ago
Netanyahu has in fact won less than 50% of the votes but due to a technicality managed to assemble a coalition with other parties that amounted to 64 of 120 seats in parliament (similar to Bush Jr. and Trump having won US elections despite
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by ido 3y ago
Plenty of Palestinians oppose Hamas and want peace and a free Palestinian state according to the '67 borders. These would be the equivalents on the other side.
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by ido 3y ago
I've been in contact with Palestinians, you may be aware of millions of them living abroad (same as Israelis, like myself) and millions more living in the west bank (the total Palestinian population world-wide numbers 14.3 million, Gaz
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by ido 3y ago
I have not lived in Israel for most of the last 20 years, but I do have family and friends there. I also know plenty of both Israelis and Palestinians moderates, but they are unfortunately the small minority on both sides.
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by ido 3y ago
I think it's close to 100% that we will have an early election, as he can't placate his right-extremist coalition partners on which his government depends. I would guess we'd be up to a 2024 elections.
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by ido 3y ago
Thank you, Dang. As someone on the Israeli left I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place- I do not condone Netanyahu and his government and am indeed very critical of Israeli governments of the past decades. But on the other sid
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by ido 3y ago
I didn't mean to take it in a negative direction either! And I agree with you anyway, my computer at around that time was also much cheaper than the example given (I think an IBM Aptiva on sale from a shop that was trying to get rid of
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by ido 3y ago
This doesn’t contradict anything I wrote above. It was possible to get much better bang for buck than the absolute most expensive option but I can believe the above story that you could spend someone else’s $6k to splurge on the most expens
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by ido 3y ago
What were the main things that stood out to you as different?
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by ido 3y ago
Interesting! My vague recollection (as a kid at the time) was that the 3DO really did deliver some impressive stuff but just at a very high price. Of course by the time the Playstation was released it was game over for 3do (and Atari, and S
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by ido 3y ago
I think in 1993 you could easily still spend $6k by buying the top end 486/pentium CPU from intel, 8mb ram, CD-ROM, large (for the time) HDD, 17" monitor, etc. It wouldn't have a GPU but the latest tech always cost a big prem
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by ido 3y ago
Sure, but it was also said about the web in the '90s and smartphones in the '00s and these "hype" techs ended up fulfilling their promise. It's not yet possible to know how the AI hype cycle will turn out.
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by ido 3y ago
Did you notice the quote marks around adequately? We managed to hobble along but it was obviously not going great. "It wasn't catastrophic" isn't my goal. I want stuff to go really well , not just about enough to not go
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by ido 3y ago
Yep I agree with both :) underperforming coworkers are a negative effect not only due to their own ineffectiveness but also their affect on the rest of the team and their motivation (it’s very demotivating to constantly have to pick someone
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by ido 3y ago
Sure but in my original example the “1x” guy was not actually an acceptable performer. I just meant someone great could easily be 5x better, not that 1x is the average (their average peer would be >>1x). I’ve learned from experience t
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by ido 3y ago
For anyone who doesn’t want to bother searching Wikipedia [0]: > The slogan of the Houthi movement (officially called Ansar Allah), a Shia Islamist political and military organization in Yemen, reads "God is the Greatest, Death to A
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by ido 3y ago
I will probably not keep an engineer that performs at 1.3x of a mediocre programmer for long (unless they’re junior and I see potential, I.e. I’m investing in the future). It’s also not about “smarts” but about being a good fit for the job
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by ido 3y ago
This is similar to what I do (details depend on the specific position).
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by ido 3y ago
Not that easy! A valid technical test needs to be custom made for the position and project (or type of project) you hire for and takes a while to both prepare and “grade”. It also then helps in giving you something very specific to talk abo
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by ido 3y ago
I’ve been a hiring manager on multiple teams and it’s not that straight forward…Yes, I don’t need John Carmack for my non-Carmack-level technical challenges. But I’ve seen “ok” programmers perform “adequately” (the project got made to accep
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by ido 3y ago
Bums exist, so someone must have!
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by ido 3y ago
> Why would you say that? 3. I’m merely describing my experience and don’t really mean anything regarding you at all.
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by ido 3y ago
A lot of them got added to Apple Arcade and Netflix Games (aside from Minecraft my kids are only allowed games from these 2 services, as I know they don’t contain ads and IAPs).

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