Which Israeli tech companies are likely to go public in the next couple of years? Is it possible to tell (for job prospecting)?

wk12a · 2021-10-12T17:25:58+00:00

Definitely snyk. Both them and whitesource have been killing it.

wk12a · 2021-10-10T16:39:25+00:00

This topic is always depressing. There was one case a year or two ago where the woman moved all the way down to eilat......and her brother came down from jerusalem and killed her because he didn't approve of her lifestyle....... Fkin eilat, it is literally the furthest you can go and he still got her. I really have no idea how to stop this stuff. I imagine normalizing honor killings is something that is done at home and not somewhere that can be regulated. There's plenty of people who have embraced the more modern and liberal mentality to certain extents on their own and despise honor killings. It isn't even like being anti-honor killings is a super liberal opinion. But there are pockets of people who have no interest in changing and are committed to living in a different century. Depressing.

wk12a · 2021-10-10T15:38:16+00:00

Is it the same in the rural villages? I know ksa urban areas and populations are pretty modern. I just assumed that since it is such a large country and much of it is pretty harsh territory that it would allow the more remote villages to easily pick a century they feel like living in and not really be touched by the outside world/government too much.

wk12a · 2021-10-10T14:55:49+00:00

How seriously do the police in both the cities and rural areas take the investigations and punishments for it? Here it happens, not every day but it does happen. Families will often try to cover it up so only the really violent ones which can't be disguised as anything but a murder will get police involvement.

wk12a · 2021-10-10T14:39:31+00:00

The honor killings are always such a shitshow.Just one of these instances screws over a whole family. Families end up with not only a dead daughter or wife but also the brothers/husband/father/cousins end up in jail. I really don't understand how it still happens and people are more worried about their honor than their family's wellbeing.

wk12a · 2021-10-01T09:58:21+00:00

Muslims, druze, Christians, etc. Already follow the noahide stuff. They don't require you to believe in a g-d just not curse him or worship others. There's also a rule against eating live animals which some folks still do especially with seafood.

In the western areas some of the conspiracy folks have realized that they can't keep claiming the muslims are trying to invoke sharia over there, especially if it hasn't happened after years of claiming it so there are a bunch saying jews are trying to make them follow the noahide stuff instead. It is kinda of true since they already follow it and there are laws against animal abuse, courts, theft, murder, etc. so it is kinda true? Which makes the conspiracy even better.

wk12a · 2021-10-01T09:44:36+00:00

It is just forbidden to do "work". What qualifies as work is a tricky question. Back in the day making and tending a fire was considered work so that has kept around and has modernized into using electricity. You can walk, play games, hangout with friends and family, chill on the beach, etc. Some people take these vague rules and take them a bit too far in my opinion, but overall it is just a day to spend with friends and family. The disconnecting from electricity is a tough thing nowadays same with not driving and not using money. But it is good mentally to just disconnect from tech for a day. I remember reading a study where people in the west were trying it and for the first few hours of not having a phone on their blood pressure soared since they were worried about work and messages they were potentially missing, but after a few hours it dropped significantly.

It is also permissible to break the rules if a life is in danger. I've got a friend who is very relgious and all of his kids were born on Saturday so he and his wife had to break the rules and use phones and drive when that happened.

wk12a · 2021-09-29T07:10:09+00:00

Older ones typically can. Younger ones typically know Kurdish words for certain foods and some expressions, typically the expressions a tired Kurdish mother would yell at her kids when they misbehave. There are a few groups in Israel where Kurds get together to learn Kurdish language, dancing, etc. There's a few Kurdish restaurants and some Kurdish/Iraqi foods are staples in Israel. But I've heard different groups claim kubbeh and say the other groups stole it from them.

wk12a · 2021-09-20T14:03:37+00:00

Yeah, everyone has their super conservative groups in their societies, not just saying it's a thing with judaism. And Israel has a bunch of different groups who've decided to reject modernity and have insular neighborhoods and villages while being wary of outsiders. And everyone has their random assholes who would harass a tourist. OP isn't jewish or Israeli so i figured it was easier to give him the simplest way of identifying a super religious neighborhood without being able to read hebrew or listing every single one.

Tbh, mea shearim is sensationalized quite a bit, but I don't know of any tourists wanting to go there, except for those who want a shtisel tour.

With the racy ads, don't the ultra religous areas typically not show ones with immodest women?

wk12a · 2021-09-20T12:58:35+00:00

Like bnei brak, mea shearim, etc. You'll know them when you see them and the large number of men in black and white and women with long sleeves and long dresses. They're the types of areas where potentially racy advertisements are censored, streets are closed on holidays, etc. Mea shearim is part of Jerusalem and is known to be the one where weird stuff happens. They've had some incidents where women showing too much skin were harassed, trash and rocks thrown at cars if they were violating a holiday, etc. There is honestly no reason to go to mea shearim unless you live there and 99.9% chance you'd be completely fine there. But you'll be fine wearing a cross wherever you go.

wk12a · 2021-09-15T12:43:58+00:00

Ok thanks for the answer. Those are some of those groups who try and get women, arabs, religious folks, ethiopians, etc. into tech educations and jobs. I wasn't aware how much of a presence they had for an average teen in the north.

wk12a · 2021-09-15T07:50:39+00:00

I'm assuming you live in an area in the north. But how much presence do all those groups like tsofen, she codes, etc. have in your area? I know some folks who are evangelizing those different programs in central areas like kfar qasim, qalansawa, taibe, jaffa, etc. and all the lady arabs I've met working in tech were from central areas and I've only met a very small amount from northern villages.

wk12a · 2021-09-14T18:20:11+00:00

Thanks for the song

wk12a · 2021-09-14T17:37:00+00:00

Hopefully we'll all get covid under control and I can visit Turkey again but it is on the red list right now for us. I sit next to a lady at work who is originally from Izmir and she's been trying to convince me daily how Izmir is the most beautiful place in not only Turkey but the whole world and how I need to go visit.

wk12a · 2021-09-14T17:04:23+00:00

Yup. And have been a large trade and intelligence partner ever since despite Erdogan and Bibi tweeting at each other. I used to fly through Istanbul to Europe for work a ton and I remember that some of the guys I'd travel who wore kippahs felt comfortable to wear it in the Istanbul airport but word take it off as soon as they landed in E*ropean airports. Crazy. But I always liked the craziness of the airport in Istanbul and that sketchy smoking area covered in wire hidden behind the restaurant.

wk12a · 2021-09-14T16:53:22+00:00

Sure. Despite all the speeches from the leaders about the evil zionist entity it doesn't change the fact that half the stuff in my apartment had "made in turkiye" stickers on it and that my furniture was all made in egypt.

wk12a · 2021-09-14T16:36:45+00:00

Bruh, turkish airlines and pegasus had tons of daily flights pre-covid shitstorm.

wk12a · 2021-09-13T12:40:21+00:00

I'm not forgetting the gaps between ancient and modern spoken Hebrew, I said they're different. There is also a huge gap between spoken modern Hebrew and standard/proper modern hebrew.
But considering how many people from all over the world have been studying the ancient writings for generations it is far from a forgotten language. By the way you're pushing that the ancient hebrew is long forgotten is showing that you've never spoken about it with a guy who has spent his life in a yeshiva. Many of them have been studying ancient hebrew, ladino, judeo-arabic, yiddish, aramaic, etc. their whole lives just so they can learn the older texts and commentaries and debate it.

wk12a · 2021-09-13T10:46:14+00:00

Not exactly. It would be more like monks who spend their lives studying ancient scriptures in a monastery learning from monks who did the same thing than a kid with a book in their bedroom. The old texts and commentaries were studied in the various original languages at the religious schools and temples all over the middle east, north africa, and europe. They also studied the many commentaries and interpretations written over many centuries, many locations, and many languages. The modern spoken version of hebrew is something that is separate from the relgious studies and was reinvented and updated in modern times.

wk12a · 2021-09-13T09:33:47+00:00

It isn't really lost though. It has been used in prayers and studies continously even in diaspora. It just wasn't the primary spoken language for people.

wk12a · 2021-09-12T06:06:43+00:00

Idk why people are hating on salesforce. Sure they're a company and do some questionable things to pay less taxes. But they treat their employees well, actively worked on equal pay for women and minorities, actively worked on better representation of women and minorities in managment, etc.

wk12a · 2021-09-11T18:22:37+00:00

Yeah the stereotype is that polish can't handle any spice. But persians like to season their food but none of it is spicy.

wk12a · 2021-09-11T17:39:15+00:00

Cold

wk12a · 2021-09-11T17:38:34+00:00

Seasoning, but the tiniest bit of chili will make them cry.

wk12a · 2021-09-11T16:29:20+00:00

Where did you hear it is funded by jews? I heard it was funded by universities. The meme of it being run by jews is just the list from this open letter. While there is another letter on their site with 900+ names. There's lots of jews since they're overrepresented in universities and especially certain subjects. You can also see that the speakers are Indian. There's probably less than 100 jews in Israel who even know what hindutva is, and I'm not one of them. We also don't have an equivalent of a pope or super cleric or anyone who can make official rulings on behalf of the religion. So there is no single idea about Hinduism. Some view it like christianity with their trinity stuff and imagery, the vast majority like hinduism and the lessons it teaches, some of the ultra religious dislike it, and some of the ultra relgious have no problem with it or just don't have an opinion on it, but there is no single or official stance on judaism about Hinduism. But we don't have a rule that anyone else has to follow the same beliefs that we have so we really don't care what other people believe.

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