Also minus the cost of the unsold copies.

It's Brooklyn. It's one room.

An expression of surprise and appreciation that the author, an expert in his field, is actually a HN participant.

Thanks for the tip off to the Israel angle to this work. I knew it must have been in there somewhere.

I think it's unlikely that many Americans know who Netanyahu is or could find Israel on a map.

sure, many Americans don't have a great relationship with the map- as per the trope. Even if many Americans are unable to locate Iran on the map, they know that Israel is pulling us into a third world war, at least every time they have to fill their gas tanks, paying historic fuel prices. Thanks,O̶b̶a̶m̶a̶ Israel!

Surely you can steel man this yourself. Iran wants nukes. Iran has stated it would like to destroy the US and Israel. Israel is an outpost of Western democracy and our ally. Iran has missiles that can reach Europe. Iran is an ally of Russia and China. Iran wants to control the passageway for a big chunk of the world's oil. Cooperation between Israel and its neighbors would be a great asset to the world economy.

This is not comprehensive and maybe you can quibble with some of it, but it is not mysterious why we might care.

>Iran wants nukes.

Entirely rational, given their desire for sovereignty and avoiding getting bombed to oblivion.

> Iran has stated it would like to destroy the US and Israel.

The linguistic nuance of the slogan "Death to America" has been articulated and clarified over a decade ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/irans-ayatollah-ali-khame...

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/what-does-death-america-r...

>Israel is an outpost of Western democracy and our ally.

The former is a meaningless characteristic when said democracy commits a genocide and runs an apartheid state (hard to deny with the recent capital punishment law exclusively for Palestinian prisoners). Hardly model behavior for anyone else in the region to emulate. The latter is meaningless since this ally only ever drags us into problems, almost all of which are of its own making.

> Cooperation between Israel and its neighbors would be a great asset to the world economy.

It's easier to cooperate with your neighbors when you stop squatting on their territory, or stop massacring them.

>but it is not mysterious why we might care.

I think "people who care" should volunteer to serve in the IDF, and leave the rest of America out of it. Kinda like the various low-friction pipelines for people to go fight/die for Ukraine without committing US Service Members to such a wasteful endeavor.

Long shot, but I'll ask. For a while Thunderbird spam filter will work fine. Then, spontaneously, it stops working and starts showing me many which are obvious, identical junk. And after flagging them as junk, it doesn't seem to learn anything.

For when this happens, it would be nice to have an explicit (and easy) way to blacklist items. Creating new filters for each of them is too involved.

I hope you have spam filtering happening somewhere upstream of your local computer. Spammers are constantly adjusting to find ways around filters, and there is no way a third class open source legacy email client I going to be able to give their filter the continuous attention it needs to stay effective.

Yes. But this is not clever stuff. I'd expect the most simple-minded Bayesian filter to identify it.

And it's always been a business.

but there's also state funded journalism, so they are not forced to do whats commercially viable

And then it's a business that is funded by political patronage.

okay so the police is a business too? Just like private security firms?

Israel never wanted to keep getting rocketed by Iran and its proxies. That didn't stop them.

According to multiple recent polls a majority of Israelis preferred to continue the fight against Iran at risk of continued rocket attacks from Iran.

Huh? Iran has been shooting rockets at Israel for years. Oh, wait, Israel provoked Iran by being a successful non-Arab country.

Iran is a non-Arab country. What stereotypical or discriminatory thing are you really trying to say?

f/8 and be there?