shilgapira

Fantastic comment, thank you

Really disappointing to see such low quality discussion here. Feasibility aside, we would not be seeing such reactions even 5 years ago. Polarization ruins everything.

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

Oy vey!

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.

It's also a modern C.

If you enjoy C and wish it was less verbose and more modern, try Go.

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.

Why wouldn't he make that choice?

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.

His choice seems perfectly rational to me.

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.

"But Chomsky said so!"

Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel, and the rest of the ludicrous claims and blood libels in your post are at about the same level of accuracy.

At least you're consistent.

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.

How dare the founders be born in a country!

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.