That slogan has been around since 2002. The U.S. carried out a targeted strike against a leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, an enemy of the Houthi movement. Using U.S. foreign policy to somehow excuse a flag calling for "death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews" is a moral failure.
I'm not going to defend Bibi and his government. They have made and continue to make many decisions I disagree with. Like the vast majority of Israelis, I think we should go to elections sooner rather than later.
However, this does not change the fact that now there is an active war between Hamas and Israel most Israelis dislike Al Jazeera because they perceive to be part of the propaganda wing of Hamas with Qatar's support.
I should know better, my wife is a UX specialist!
You make a good point. What I should have said is that it won’t stop people who really want to watch it.
I personally don't support blocking Al Jazeera. It's not that I'm a fan of them or any news station operated under a dictatorship without free press. It's clear that Al Jazeera acts as the propaganda wing of the Qatari government, and Qatar, being one of the main sponsors of Hamas, uses it to effectively spread Hamas propaganda. However, the real question is what does blocking them achieve. Does it stop their influence? No. Does it make them harder to watch here? No. Are the people advocating for their blockage even watching it? Likely not. It's mostly done because it's something the government can claim to have achieved for what remains of their base. I'm skeptical that the blocking of the website will actually occur, as it will probably be challenged in court.
Regardless, in a democracy, internet censorship is a slippery slope, and for that reason, I am against it in most cases.
You realize the wealthier a society, the fewer kids?
It’s 100% a cultural norm issue. I was raised in Canada but have lived in Israel for the past 20 years. The vast majority of my Canadian friends have no kids, and the ones that do have at most 2. In Israel, all of my friends (secular/non-religious) have kids, usually 3 or more. The idea of whether you can or can’t afford a kid does not cross people’s minds. You get married, and you have a kid. If you don’t get married, and you can, you still have a kid. It’s just what’s expected. I have numerous friends who are single and made the choice to have multiple kids via donors. When it is the norm in society, it’s just something you do. I am sure social pressure has an effect. You see your friends having kids, then you want to have kids too, and then your kids become friends with your friends’ kids, and it expands from there.
Financially, life in Canada is much easier as a parent when compared to here, but socially, life in Canada as a parent is much harder when I compare it to here.
I have 3 kids - for me personally it was the best choice I have ever made, but I accept that I no longer have my own life. I live for my kids and I wouldn’t change it for the world. It probably helps that most of my friends are in the same situation.
I think it is likely the complete opposite of trouble. It helped them write their comment faster and in such a way that it was easy to understand. This is one of the best use cases for chatgpt. Rather than spend minutes trying to get the right wording, tell chatgpt what you want to say in a few short notes and get a well formed coherent text.
Now if this is a good thing, that’s up for debate - although overall I personally would say yes.
This is part of progress (be it good or bad progress).
It used to be that the majority of the US population worked in agriculture and today thanks to automation - it’s around 1% of the population. Same goes for numerous roles (secretaries, switchboard operators etc.)
As far as ChatGPT goes - I have a lot of concerns around it, but I am still not convinced it will replace search. I think it might compliment search. Either way I think it’s a good thing if how we search changes. Search is broken, it no longer brings me the best results, it’s becoming harder and harder to differentiate between ads and legit links (this is of course intentional because of revenue and KPIs) and I know longer trust the results. I am not sure if chatGPT is the answer, but maybe it’s part of the answer.
Important lesson - teach your kids to have a self development mindset. They need to be prepared to have multiple career changes and that their current skill set might be made obsolete at any moment. It sucks, but it’s reality and when things change, they change fast.
I love hackathons and before having kids I use to do them quite often. I usually placed in the top three and from my experience at least you are a 100% right!
Personally I love building things and seeing people use them, but then I get bored really quickly and tend to let them die out.
It’s something I am actively working on because I do want to do another startup at some point in my career.
I am not sure where I read this or who told this to me, but my favorite piece of advice (prior to having kids) was "don't waste your time with people that don't give you positive energy". It's really easy to get brought down by other people's negativity, be at work or in your personal life. Staying away from people that bring you down is key to being happy and successful.
The most important piece of advice I can give to any new parent is
"You have between 6 to 10 years where your kid(s) actually wants to hang out with you - take advantage of it, you'll never get another chance"
I think some people are being a bit too harsh about how the author goes about explaining how you can't prevent all fraud without hurting good users - or in other words, some fraud is just the cost of doing business. Overall it is a good article (that could have probably been a bit shorter) that talks about a topic that is rarely talked about - risk tolerance.
As someone who has worked in the industry for the past 15 years, I can see a few things that I believe are causing risk tolerance levels to increase across the industry.
1. Startups/new businesses that are in growth stage have a large appetite for risk which is pushing the more traditional/legacy companies to also take more risk.
2. High friction experiences that are designed to stop fraudsters require you to provide timely support to any good users that might be blocked by mistake. We all know the trend for most companies has been to move away from providing timely support to their customers as it is extremely expensive. This is another cost (on top of potential lost sales) of creating a high friction experience.
I say this a lot and I will keep saying it. Conversion != customer obsession.
There is a place for A/B testing. It is necessary and can be extremely beneficial in helping your customers enjoy and use your product more successfully.
The main issue is that people mix conversion with customer obsession!
Whenever you work on a product or feature you should be asking yourself "Is this really good for my customer" - if the answer is no, then no matter what the A/B tests/conversion rates show you don't do it.
Unfortunately we mostly hire the wrong people as PMs, who then hire clones of themselves. They are not truly customer obsessed and use A/B tests incorrectly which results in products that trick or force customers to do things they don't understand/want to do. Long term this is bad for the product and company
I don’t think this necessarily means anything. App download count will always favor newer apps that are still in their growth stage (TikTok is a good example of this).
Facebook is post growth stage and is probably at the point where it’s already hit, or close to hitting its peak market share. Most Facebook users have already installed the app and only ever need to reinstall it if they switch phones. Those that haven’t installed it/don’t use Facebook are unlikely to convert to new users at this point
Most of the polls in the US tend to be done by American Jewish organizations such as the AJC. The AJC polls actually specifically ask about support for Israel.
Regardless all of the major Jewish denominations in the US (reform movement, conservative movement, modern orthodox and even most of the heredi movements these days) officially support Zionism. Now you have individuals in each group who may describe themselves as anti-Zionist, but it is a very small minority (although growing in the reform movement).
Among non affiliated Jews the percentage of anti Israel/anti Zionist Jews may be a bit higher but it is still pretty low. It’s no where near millions (you only have 6.5 Million Jews in the US).
Now none of the above means that there is not a large segment of pro Israel, American Zionist Jews who are against a lot of the current and previous governments policies when it comes to the West Bank and Gaza (or in general).
Heck I am a Canadian born Israeli, who is personally against a lot of the policies of the Israeli government. I quite often cringe at some of the comments and actions of some of our politicians. On the bright side it helps me chose who not to vote for
I maybe in the minority here, but I believe that this is not good for the average European and definitely not good for the European tech scene. Europe is already a more complicated place to launch a new company as you have to support multiple languages, countries etc. just to get to the potential market size you have in the US. Strict regulations are that are complicated to implement means that more new companies will choose to launch and build themselves up in the US first. By the time they come to Europe they will already be big and established and can afford to implement the complicated infrastructure that is necessary to support cross continent data storage (or ignore the regulation and pay the fines) while eating up all the small startups that were trying to capture the EU market while dealing with masses amounts of regulation and red tape.
Now to be very clear! I am not against most of GDPR. But some of the interpretations of it have gone too far and it will hurt Europeans in the long run.
This is actually one of the best things that can happen to companies like google and Microsoft as they can afford to develop the infrastructure to support easy geo based cross continent data storage - and they can then sell it as part of their cloud offerings.
This is factually incorrect. Every poll of the US Jewish community has shown that between 80% to 90% are supporters of Israel. At most a few thousand US Jews are not fans of Israel, and they are very vocal about it.
A couple of years ago there was a talk at defcon by Nina Kollars where she described how in her search for cheap Nespresso she came across a large number of eBay merchants selling Nespresso at prices that were significantly below the market price. She ends up discovering that this was triangular fraud. For anyone interested in understanding how this works I highly recommend reading the article below.
Honestly I don’t think this will end well for the regulator.
I am not a lawyer, but I am guessing that if Facebook blocks giphy usage in the UK there is very little the UK regulator can do to them. I see that as the likeliest scenario as they won’t want to sell giphy.
This will only make the regulator look foolish. The average person won’t understand why Facebook owning giphy is a problem (it’s not a social network) but they will be annoyed when they lose access to giphy in slack, WhatsApp and other platforms that use it in.