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by dagav 5y ago
Physical money has value because we have an economy. If you have a USD, you can come to the US and spend that dollar. Bitcoin doesn't have an economy, it is literally a meme. The only thing you can do with it is trade it for real money
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by dagav 5y ago
The odds that this is a coincidence are approaching 0.
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by dagav 6y ago
I said it was hard to develop a nation in the desert, I didn't say it was impossible. Israel is a world leader in agricultural technology [1] precisely because of this problem. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag
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by dagav 6y ago
Population centers are only one concern when you are building a nation. For example, where do you grow your food?
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by dagav 6y ago
It is an objective fact that 55% of the land area of the State of Israel is the Negev desert.
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by dagav 6y ago
I suppose, I just have a feeling that the most powerful capabilities of cyber super powers are yet to be seen.
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by dagav 6y ago
Israeli intelligence is working around the clock to disrupt the actions of terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. There are countless terror factions who's sole purpose is to destroy Israel and execute a second Holocaust. You don&#
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by dagav 6y ago
What if you could shut down their water processing plants? Their electricity grid? Their internet? How long would it take for that state to collapse?
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by dagav 6y ago
Why invade a country, when you can shut down its infrastructure and force them to surrender? War isn't won by killing, its won by conquering. I also suspect that machines will be so effective at killing, that you won't be able to
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by dagav 6y ago
Literally every intelligence service does this, they're called "assets"[1]. Right and wrong isn't as black and white as you may think. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_(intelligence)
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by dagav 6y ago
More than half of Israel's land area is desert. It's quite hard to develop a nation in the desert.
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by dagav 6y ago
Writing code is a great way to make money in the desert. Israel is essentially an island. Also, warfare in the future is likely to be primarily digital, and Israel has many enemies. Israel will lead the cybersecurity and cyberwarfare indust
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by dagav 6y ago
The Palestinians agreed in the Oslo Accords t govern themselves. They don't vote in Israeli elections, and Israelis don't vote in their elections (if they had any).
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by dagav 6y ago
Consciousness allows us to make decisions outside of our animal instincts. Why is religious fasting a widespread practice?
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by dagav 6y ago
I've found that this strategy doesn't work over time. My goal isn't, "make the best meal ever tonight", my goal is, "shop, cook, and clean every week in order to have a good home cooked meal every night".
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by dagav 6y ago
Well if you question your beliefs then you can arrive at your first principles, and then you can start questioning things people tell you by ensuring that you understand them as derived from your first principles. That's called thinkin
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by dagav 6y ago
That's just what people who belong to a team think. It's actually possible to think for yourself
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by dagav 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file#Batch_viruses_and_m...
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by dagav 6y ago
IQ is one of the most statistically reliable psychometrics we have
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by dagav 6y ago
A lot of assholes have started a lot of things
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by dagav 6y ago
They don't threaten your freedom, but they threaten the freedom of the people who live in the Middle East
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Operation Mole Cricket 19(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dagav 6y ago
It's possible that they fake enough votes to ensure a victory (like 51%), and then the real votes come in and turn the result into something unrealistic.
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by dagav 6y ago
I'm not sure your first point matters. There is one canonical Jewish nation today who live and die by the Torah. The history of Jews isn't them committing violence against others, but of violence being committed onto them. The Jew
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by dagav 6y ago
I'm not spouting whataboutism, I'm giving some much needed context to a conflict that very few truly understand. No one in the West understands the Jewish side of the story, but it's important if we want peace.
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by dagav 6y ago
It's Jews vs Arabs. And this isn't my opinion, this is precisely how the conflict is perceived by both the Jews and Arabs involved. I'm not really making any statements about the article, but I tend to believe my ancestors ov
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by dagav 6y ago
You're right that it was Palestine, they even have Palestinian immigration papers. But that land was always called Israel by the Jews, and on those same papers it says "Eretz Israel" in Hebrew. The Jews and Palestinians could
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by dagav 6y ago
Calling it a "settler colonial ethnostate" is precisely the political lens that I'm criticizing. It does not properly capture the complexity and nuance of the conflict. For example, what you would call an ethnostate, I would
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by dagav 6y ago
Picking out a population of thousands to say "some Jews oppose Israel", and then conclude that the state of Israel is extricable from Judaism, is extremely disingenuous. Almost all Jews globally support Israel, half of the world&#
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by dagav 6y ago
My ancestors lived in Israel since 1880, and the Arabs raided their villages, burned their fields, and massacred them in riots. Before Israel they lived in Yemen, where they faced pogroms and blood libel. What the West cannot understand abo

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