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You have it completely inverted. I am talking about the indigenous people returning to their land. I am talking about the original (and much more prolific) religious claims to land being restored over subsequent weak-claimed usurpers.

That's literally the opposite of colonialism.

(by "weak" I just mean the opposite of prolific.. not sure what the right word would be there, i.e. Judaism has super strong ties to Israel- agricultural laws of orlah and shemittah, recorded purchase and significance of Hebron, daily prayer for over 2000 years to rebuild Jerusalem. No other religion has anywhere near this strong of a connection to the land).

Interesting.. believe it or not, I don't pay much attention to politics as I often feel like they miss the forest for the trees and exchange integrity for votes.

But at a glance- it seems like I am in fact proposing something like his Decisive Plan.

I suppose the main difference is I am dreaming that it comes about through peace and with world support- especially Arab support.

I don't want it to be forced through violence. Unfortunately, it may be inevitable... I can't even get people on hacker news to retract their erroneous accusations of genocide. What hope is there for a peaceful "180 degree" turn?

I keep wanting to believe the world is not full of anti-semites, it's just an issue of misunderstanding, and I keep finding I am wrong... in that context, something like the decisive plan may need to be forced through war eventually. God I hope it doesn't come to that.

Re: stats, I don't have that info.. if I had to guess, I would say that a plan like this is hugely unpopular in Israel- but I would also guess that it's like that because it implies a lot of suffering in today's climate, and it would be much more accepted if the Palestinians wanted it too.

0% of those who accept Israeli government wholeheartedly, choose to live as law-abiding citizens, and teach their children to do the same (similar to many Israeli-Arab and Druze populations today).

100% of those who actively support the eradication of Israel and driving every Jew into the sea.

In the middle, it may need to lean to less tolerance due to the reality of democracy and demographics, but I'm not sure.

My hope would be that most would fit in the 0% category.

That's the question we should be asking and the pressure Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan need to be put under by Saudi Arabia, UAE, US, France, Russia, China, etc.

I realize that's a stretch- but it shouldn't be.

Fantasy scenario: it just happens. Many Palestinian/Arabs continue to live in Israel under Israeli sovereignty because they like the job opportunities or whatever. No persecution, they live and flourish no problem (assuming they genuinely accept Israeli government). Many emigrate to Palestine in eastern Jordan because they feel a connection to the land their great grandparents grew up in, it's worth the tradeoff for them (assuming it's less prosperous than Israel which of course may be inverted, who knows)

If 80% of the energy from world hatred of Jews went to actually trying to solve the problem, we'd be in a far better place- less war, less innocents dying, less needing to censor treasonous media, etc.

To be completely honest, it boggles my mind that this _isn't_ happening. Instead we have pointless shit like Gays for Palestine blocking entrance to Disneyland. The world has lost its mind on this issue.

Re: genocide.

None of those criteria fit when talking about Palestinians in the West Bank (or Gaza before the war, but let's put that aside for now). The Palestinian population has increased in Israel, they are free to roam, reproduce, etc.

As I have said previously, one merely has to drive 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem to witness this. For anyone living in the Dead Sea area, as I did for over 3 years, it's _routine_ to see Palestinians existing just fine with none of the criteria for genocide at all. That's a fact, jack.

So.. what you're really saying is Israel is commiting "genocide" against Hamas. Wow. Alert the press. It's a war, initiated by Hamas and every terrorist attack they've been doing, not just Oct 7th. You're damn right Israel has a goal of wiping out every single one of those psychotic terrorists, and the world should be thanking us.

Instead, we're forced to try and distinguish Hamas from the civilians they use as human shields, and international anti-semetism that is hell-bent on getting the facts completely wrong. I am not saying the IDF is free of mistakes, but by and large it goes to extreme lengths to protect normal Palestinians.

What army on earth gives their enemy advance warning before attacking? The ratio of combatants to civilians is damn near miraculous in the current fighting conditions.

It's really impossible to mistake this for attempted genocide if you're honest.

Re: Molotov cocktail

Have you ever had one thrown at you personally? I have. It's no joke and it is absolutely 100% a lethal weapon. You can't attack a solider with a lethal weapon and not expect them to attack back. I don't care what the stats are, it should be expected every time.

Simple question which I asked before- if you accuse Israel of genocide, why is the IDF not dropping bombs on Ramallah? One would think that if the goal were genocide, Israel wouldn't discriminate between the PA and Hamas, right?

> that only showed Israel, with no Palestine nor Gaza nor West Bank marked on it

1) Look at a map of Palestine in 1947. Now look at the Palestinian flag side by side with the Jordanian flag. I bet you can figure this one out.

2) When did the nation of Palestine ever have their own land and national identity, prior to 1948? Who was their president/leader?

3) On that note, where was Arafat born?

The thing is- this whole farce of "Palestine" is, in fact, nonsense, and the obvious real answer to peace if the Arab refugees from 48 want to call themselves after an old Roman slur to the Jews is for Jordan to designate a chunk.

There's like, what, two million so-called Palestinians in Jordan already.

> There is also biblical-religious verses that Netanyahu has cited that have the same annihilation rhetoric, as far as I remember

I call B.S. the Torah not only doesn't encourage murdering Arabs of any kind, it outright prohibits it. The idealized Torah-based government encourages all the nations of the world to come and live and visit in Israel, provided they follow the 7 Noahide laws (which moderate forms of Islam do).

Be honest- did you just completely make up this point? What could you possibly be misremembering? Netanyahu has issues, but misquoting the Torah and using that misquote as a basis for an extreme position of genocide is _very_ out of character for him, doesn't ring true at all.

(there _is_ an imperative in the Torah to kill Amalekites. They don't exist anymore and it's completely irrelevant.)

Re: ad-hominem:

"someone who's probably just a dishonest emotional 'fast talker'"

(false: I'm very honest, pretty chill, and speak at a pretty normal pace due to my Texan upbringing)

"bi-polar"

(false, never been diagnosed with that)

There's more of course.. but, do you really need me to list every instance where you crossed that line?

> translation

in addition to the other poster's comment pointing out that the charter literally calls for fighting/killing all the Jews in other passages, what _exactly_ do you think their charter means by "invalidating [Israel's existence]". In what world is that not mutually exclusive with Israel existing??

Btw- while there is much debate even among religious Jews about the line between the modern state of Israel and the Jewish religion, there is no debate that they are intimately tied at the core. There are hundreds of commendments relating to the land of Israel, e.g. agricultural laws that do not apply in America or Guam or wherever.

The most prolific commentator (Rashi) points out that the Torah begins with the creation of the world precisely because it needs to establish the Jewish connection to the land of Israel, as both are designated by God to be intertwined in legislature later on in the Torah.

Not saying anyone has to believe this, but, ultimately, one can't _really_ be anti-Zionist without being anti-Jewish, it's just an excuse for politically correct hatred in today's climate.

The religious Jewish identity cannot exist without the land of Israel (hence why it's been in Jewish prayers 3 times a day and after every meal with bread ever since the Roman exile).

Again, because people tend to misunderstand when I point this out- I am not saying the world has to believe this. I am just pointing out the intellectual dishonesty when people say anti-Zionism doesn't imply anti-Jewish. It's just not true when fleshed out fully, and, in my anecdotal experience, when someone claims they are "just" anti-Zionist, they truly do harbor deep hatred for the Jewish people too, irregardless of Israel.

> I'm not going to waste my time with someone [...] on live video.

Yeah, thought so. If you want to debate this on live video with full transparency (real names, agreement to have it publicized, third party mediator we both agree to), let me know.. otherwise- this is not worth my time.

I don't address each of your points because they are so ridiculous it's not about rational argument in text. I assume you are much smarter than these points indicate, and so the actual issue at hand is deeper, and I think if you're forced to confront that with some real accountability you _might_ be able to recognize this with your reputation on the line.

One example: Chalking up Hamas's intent to eradicate Israel entirely to "mistranslation"... that's a new level of willfull ignorance. Do you really need me to break down the Arabic translation on Wikipedia part by part, or source the numerous public statements by Hamas officials calling for the eradication of Israel by jihad and any means necessary? No, you don't need me to do that, it's obvious, so where does such a clear mistake come from? Not from misunderstanding facts.

(P.S.. your ad-hominem attacks are clearly projecting your own insecurities. I know that telling you this won't change anything, but I want you to know that it not only doesn't bother me, it makes you look bad, you might want to stick to evidence-based points in the future)

> So, I'm/we're just supposed to accept your narrative "without proof" but "the other side" requires proof

No, not at all, the number of Palestinians in Israel is a matter of public record. The Hamas strategy of human shields is extremely well documented. It's trivial to get footage of Palestinians driving on Israeli roads without hassle. Literally only need to go to a supermarket 15 minutes outside of Jerusalem, even in Jewish areas like mishor adumim.

> unless you already realized the broader context that Israel needs to maintain enough public support

Huh? There's no "broader context" to accusations of genocide. Either Israel has a policy of murdering all the Palestinians or it doesn't. It doesn't.

(Though there isn't really a genetic difference between Palestinians and Jordanian/Egyptian Arabs, not sure if that would even be genocide- but that's semantics, Israel is obviously not trying to wipe these people out, even if their identity is based on recent tribal affiliations)

Eh.. honestly, I'd go through your response point by point, but you are both clueless _and_ passionate, which is a combo I don't feel like dealing with.

If we're going into "you should watch", I literally worked on a documentary series about the formation of the state of Israel called "Faith and Fate", produced by Rabbi Berel Wein. It covers the period leading up to the state of Israel. It speaks to some of the issues you brought up like pogroms against Jews in Israel in the 1920's, the white paper, yearning of the indigenous people to return to their homeland for a couple thousand years, etc. etc.

What's the irony, what's the arrogance? You can't just say "what if" without proof (I mean, say whatever you want.. but..) Back up your accusations with simple explanations please, I am not going to go watch 30 minutes of video to suss out your evidence.

Israel is the host country to the second largest Palestinian population on earth. I went to the Dead Sea the other day and passed by dozens of Palestinian cars on the road (not Israeli Arabs, which are another huge population- the Palestinians have different license plates).

If the goal of Israel was genocide, the number of civilian casualties would be FAR FAR greater than they are. I know programmers aren't necessarily mathematicians, but come on people, this is kindergarten stuff.

Look up the number of civilian casualties in America's fight against ISIS.

Hamas goes out of their way to use civilians as human shields. Just yesterday Israel had to try and carefully distinguish as a dual UNRWA / Hamas headquarters was put out of commission.

The narrative that Israel is commiting genocide in this war is so ridiculously stupid, a failure of basic math skills a 5 year old could do, the only way to believe it is to be horribly misinformed, or to want to believe it.

Al Jazeera incites violence by knowingly pushing misinformation on an audience who wants to believe it, to fan the flames of hate.

On Holocaust day especially, it's insane to expect Israel to provide resources for blood libels to her enemy in times of war.

What does proportion have to do with anything? You can't actually expect a country at war to supply the enemy with ammunition, period. I don't expect Hamas to allow an Arutz Sheva, or even Haaretz, office to operate on their airwaves.

Re: journalistic integrity. It's arguable, but I would say no- and many others in democratic countries would too. Bleach doesn't cure COVID, vaccines don't cause autism, and Israel isn't commiting genocide. When the facts are being twisted and misinformation endangers human life, there is a responsibility to get it right or shut it down. I am not talking about the average person having stupid uninformed opinions and shouting it to the rooftops. I am talking about professionals. Same goes for many other professions. If you're programming firmware for a dialysis machine, and you knowingly introduce a bug to kill people, your power to distribute that code to hospitals should be taken away before people get hurt.

Yes, in many facets of this war Israel is held to a higher standard than America itself.

When the towers were hit, the gloves came off. America wasn't accused of genocide when civilians were accidentally killed as they went after ISIS. The notion of a news agency reporting on American military strategy and directly inciting an additional attack on American soil in actionable ways wouldn't be tolerated for a second. It's so absurd that there isn't even a real-world comparison, America silences that shit on a personal cellular phone level. It's treason.

It's often desirable for UI to be described in a declarative fashion, i.e. instead of where you have "do something" (set button color to red), refactoring so it becomes "is something" (button is red if state is x)

I might not be describing that well, because once you go down that road it really becomes a whole overall approach that infects the whole program (like functional reactive programming), and so it's really about how the whole flow fits together from top to bottom, and that can be very elegant.

I don't think that's the right fit for everything, i.e. in gamedev it might make more sense to just update some object's position imperatively, but for UI it tends to work pretty well.

Asimov and Silverberg's Nightfall novel seems related- a great sci-fi story about a civilization on an alien planet that isn't prepared for the long cycle of astronomical movements (they go crazy during an eclipse every 2000 years or so). Fun read :)

I write frontend web code in Rust (dominator). There is no plugin for Figma that handles this out of the box, but by copy pasting the CSS and putting it in a comment, Co-Pilot can then infer the transformation to Rust syntax. In the past I would have taken the time to write my own parser/mapper, now I don't have to, nor does _anyone_, it's even _better_ for it to learn from local context e.g. for my own personal formatting style etc.

Very nice, I've tried looking at a couple other tutorials in the past but they always assume more prior knowledge than I have.

This really hits the sweet spot for me.

Would love to see tutorials on more topics. In particular, a very basic lighting model but with a detailed breakdown on how normals and dot product work together.

Yes, there's plenty of info out there, but I think your teaching style would still make it worthwhile

Hamas has the stated aim of jihad in their official charter, targets civilians, and quite literally wants to murder every "Zionist" (even those in America). That is their actual stance. It's insane and why they are recognized as a terrorist organization by many countries.

They use ambulances, schools, and other civilian cover to smuggle weapons and launch terrorist attacks.

What exactly do you expect the IDF to do? Let it pass? Ask Hamas to please step away from the civilians so they can be targeted?

Well, the latter is exactly what the IDF has done routinely, and paid for it in Israeli blood. Enough is enough.

Instead of blaming Israel, maybe start asking why the rest of the Arab/Muslim world like Egypt and Jordan won't take Hamas in their borders. Ask why the UN turns a blind eye to the UNRWA who use funds earmarked for medicine to purchase weapons.

The humanitarian crisis is severe and horrible. Nobody is denying that. However, it is not Israel's responsibility to enable Hamas anymore. They want to use human shields, then maybe those humans shouldn't have elected a freaking psychotic terrorist organization to be their government in the first place. It's still sad, and horrible that innocent people die in war.

Again- Egypt and Jordan can easily prevent this.

Hell, tell Jordan to carve off a chunk of their lot from the British Mandate of Palestine, without encroaching on the ancient Jewish promised land, and this whole damn problem goes away.

Agreed, it's absurd. Jail time for writing javascript otoh...

Is there another way? I've only done WebGL, so not familiar with Vulkan/Metal/DirectX/etc. - but in my experience you're clearing the screen and re-drawing everything every tick no matter what. If only for applying post-processing effects.

Updating buffers is of course a totally separate thing, and on that side I don't think anyone updates everything every tick, usually there's some sort of scene graph that knows about dirty transforms and their children, so only those get updated..

When a problem has my attention, nothing can phase me. I get hyperfocused. Music, colors, the need to eat or sleep.. doesn't matter. All that gets put aside, the thing that has my attention has my full and undivided attention

When something doesn't grab me, it takes enormous effort to maintain focus. It's not that other distractions are just so incredibly moving that they take my focus away. Rather, it's that it's physically difficult if not painful to focus on the thing that evades my attention, so by comparison, anything else is better.

I have no idea if my comment speaks to the paper. I started reading it because I am at the grocery store and the checkout line is so boring, but then the paper didn't quite grab me enough either, so I'm slightly more interested now in whatever happens to be on some other screen.

But if it is studying the effect of distractions, I think they have the wrong idea (or I have something other than ADHD), because it's never about the distractions, it's about the interest in the thing that needs my attention. Nothing else matters

That's not what I meant. What I meant is if another game, by a complete third party, used these minerals in ways that change the functionality of the game and required a code change to support, and that the code change and version itself were controlled by a DAO

Like for example if these materials let you build new kinds of structures in Fortnite, if Fortnite were controlled by a DAO, which also implies that the code is running on-chain, because who owns the keys to upload to the Microsoft store etc.

Tell me where you go on Blockchain to exchange a software license for a concert ticket?

This doesn't even make sense for most chains since software licenses generally depend on some sort of secrets or drm that can't work on transparent chains (anyone can look at the tx and impersonate the owner to grab an activation code).

The actual product and ecosystem of these things is the hard part. You can't actually do anything at all with NFTs because they are merely mappings of users to random strings.

They have absolutely zero utility in and of themselves. Not as rights to jpgs and certainly not as proof of concert ticket ownership.

The business logic is what makes it all actually work, and can be applied far more easily in centralized systems.

Again, the usefulness in Blockchain is not authorization tokens, it's decentralized consensus, which is only useful insofar as you distrust the centralized alternative.

The auth token itself, whether NFT or any other bearer-like, is neither innovative nor interesting nor inherently useful. It only becomes useful where decentralization is useful and compelling products use it for practical needs.

I'm repeating myself now, no point in beating a dead horse.

You misunderstood what I said. Let me repeat:

> that gives added functionality. Everything is governed by DAO. Interop can be voted in

What I mean by functionality is _actual_ functionality. Like, I earn a shield in one game and now it lets me deflect hits with new animations in another, so the DAO would need to vote in code changes. This is what I meant by interop too.

Not being able to see JPGs that you import across games. Like I said, I built something like that as a weekend project and custom cw721 contracts and unity. It's not hard. It's also not interesting to me.

In the exact same way that blockchain does - you present a token that can be validated by your peers.

However, in blockchain it's the combo of your private key to sign your wallet, along with the consensus engine where decentralized voting decides to accept the generation and association of new tokens.

In centralized servers, it's the combo of your credentials to login, along with the servers that update the database.

Once you own a token, you can create signatures for it that other peers can validate. For example

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/create-custom-to...

I've already addressed your points about collateral and loans. That's purely business logic, and has nothing at all to do with NFTs (which are _only_ user<>token_id mappings)

They don't need their own in-house bespoke infrastructure, the hard part is user identity, and there are many services that will host this for you and also integrate seamlessly with third party providers (Firebase, for example, which will let you identify via Google, Meta, GitHub, Twitter, etc. right out of the box)

The difference between Firebase and Ethereum+metamask isn't a significant development cost for anything beyond a toy weekend project.

The difference is only about trust.

The argument you want to make is that we shouldn't trust Firebase, they could steal our auth tokens and act on our behalf without our permission, so we need trustless decentralized solutions.

That would be a valid argument, but a hard sell to an audience that doesn't buy the premise. I'm not going to debate it.

However, it has nothing to do with the technical layer of auth which is just "prove that you know the secret" in all cases.

Either you don't understand how this works, or you're deliberately avoiding the point.

Where do you think Metamask stores your private key?

It would be trivial for Firebase to release a browser extension that used LocalStorage to store the secret, like Metamask, instead of regular web storage.

Illuvium is just a trading game with 3d graphics.

This is not what I meant at all

Their videos which tease advanced game mechanics look like pure hype to raise money from the gullible. Their white paper says nothing about how this works and their repo has no code.

Here's what I want to know:

Player 1 shoots. Can player 2 see the trajectory of the shot before it hits them?

If yes- how do they avoid cheating?

If no- how is this on-chain?

Eagerly waiting an answer to that

There are many more problems for on-chain games (that are not just trading with pretty skins), but let's start here

(probable spoiler alert: they don't have an answer to that, they don't actually have any on-chain physics or game mechanics beyond trading crypto assets, they only made the demo video to dupe investors)

I may have misunderstood your point of gaming. If your point was that games do not need to be on-chain, then it _really_ begs the question of what utility NFTs provide.

Rephrased, in a game that depends on proprietary centralized servers, what do I gain by having a public ledger that the game can query to say I own some asset? Or, alternatively, in a game that recognizes arbitrary decentralized permissions, what do I gain by having proprietary centralized servers? Let's avoid flowery language and deal with reality:

Scenario 1) I buy a sword from Joe on OpenSea. Epic games recognizes NFTs as a generic spec and lets me import it and use in the game. That's wonderful, but in this case I do not need to buy anything from Joe, I can just mint my own sword for free, since they'll recognize any spec-compliant contract.

Scenario 2) I buy a sword from Epic on OpenSea. Epic games only recognizes NFTs that they have the authority to mint. Yay. But now why didn't I just buy it from Epic directly, since I already depend on them fully for auth (they can just migrate the nft contract at will), what does having it on Ethereum add?

Scenario 3) Just like Scenario 2, but Epic recognizes a list of official partners that they trust but do not own. Meh. it's not that interesting. Might be a little more interesting if those partners are themselves DAO-controlled. Still, I think it's more in the category of "kinda neat" instead of "gamechanging"

Scenario 4) I earn a "high score" NFT by playing an Epic game, and they mint an NFT for me (I've gone through their login _and_ associated my wallet with their account). Other games recognize this specific NFT address as being owned by Epic and give special utility. Again, this is pointless, we've already placed all our trust in Epic's closed system, they might as well just expose an endpoint

Fully on-chain ecosystems with no leaks are a different beast imho. Decentralization is cool! It's just extremely crappy for game ux right now. I expect the tech here to catch up eventually. When it does, we can have:

Scenario 5) Doesn't exist now - but I play an on-chain game and earn some NFT. This is then recognized in another on-chain game that gives added functionality. Everything is governed by DAO. Interop can be voted in

This is cool. However, what's innovative about this is that it's basically open-source collaborative business. I do think that's pretty huge, in theory, if it took off. The hard part would be the actual programming and game design to make the interop interesting. The NFT part is still just an auth token, nothing more.

NFTs are only spec for smart contracts that dictate mappings between "owners" and "token ids". That's it. End of story. There isn't even a universal requirement that maps from token id to metadata like OpenSea's format.

> NFTs can be minted in exchange for currency and can be traded between owners later

The part of dApps that recognizes NFT ownership for releasing funds is just business logic that can be replaced with anything we can imagine - including but not limited to checking the storage for an Address->RandomString lookup (in fact, if you squint, that _is_ what's happening in transactions due to the step that verifies wallet signatures via cryptographic hashes)

There is nothing at all in the spec that allows for them to have any special meaning in terms of vouchers for currency

> More complex rebuttal: you can get peer-to-peer (and even peer-to-pool) loans using your NFT as collateral

I don't think you understand how NFTs work. This isn't even a more complex rebuttal, NFT contracts don't care if the owner is another contract or a human with a wallet. They only care about the owner to token id mapping. If anything, p2p loans is a _simpler_ example because you're moving the logic out of contracts and into, perhaps, humans who decide to act on nft transfers. It's a weird example imho, but regardless, it's only an extension of the above points.

> How is any of this applicable right now to a HTTP header?!

In HTTP, you acquire a random string (via some web app), and then you later provide it to prove authorization

In Blockchain, you acquire a random public/private keypair (via wallet generation), and you later sign data with this random key in order to prove authorization

In NFTs, you use the Blockchain infrastructure to sign transactions that associate you as the owner with arbitrary token ids.

Do you not see that it's fundamentally the same thing?

> Also, the only people I ever heard of mentioning “videogames fully on chain” are crypto opponents; they try to come up with the most bizarre scenarios, to “prove” that crypto is inadequate. It’s so irrational.

Ok. I mean, I've hands-on deployed CW721 contracts on cosmos with a Unity frontend for on-chain gaming demos. Your ad-hominem attacks are pretty weird from where I'm sitting and, frankly, reek of "dunning-kruger effect". But I don't want to get into a pissing contest, let's stick to facts:

1. Most chains require you to sign transactions all the time. It's a crappy UX. Near avoids this to some extent, and it's a clientside thing that can be skipped, but generally at the expense of security most users aren't comfortable with.

2. Transaction time is slow af compared to what you get with regular socket servers. I'm talking a difference of speed in terms of decades of progress. Not years. Decades.

3. Nodes go out of sync, you have race conditions, there are real problems to solve that robust game server tech deals with and blockchain doesn't concern itself with. Working around these are doable but painful and not out of the box.

4. Most games depend on randomization and/or hidden state that clients cannot be made aware of to prevent cheating. There are some chains like Secret Network that propose solutions to this, but overall, blockchain is transparent in ways that are showstoppers for on-chain games.

> Yeah, it’s almost like blockchains are designed to be financial infrastructure. At least you got the basics right, I guess.

Yup.

I haven't played a ton of titles, only own a Quest 1, but I found Superhot and Beat Saber to be distinctly unique and more enjoyable than non-VR counterparts in some ways.

On the other hand, I tried out some VR titles that just weren't very fun.

I think this is an issue of game design. Once the "wow" factor gets old, games still need to hold their own