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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
