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So, the question then becomes – who’s an expert on the existence, or non-existence, of an Iranian nuclear weapons program? I would claim that a man who served as the director of the IAEA for over a decade clearly qualifies as such, while an Israeli military general (as you suggest), whose primary expertise is the prosecution of war and not the analysis of nuclear material and facilities, clearly does not. But then I’m also stacking the odds by not resting my argument purely on ElBaradei’s conclusion, but also on the conclusion of other experts, like that of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies whose consensus view is that Iran halted it’s nuclear weapons program in 2003. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/world/la-fg-iran-intel-20120224.

Now that I’ve wasted even more time (which I don’t have) on an argument that hardly anyone is going to read and even fewer people are going to care about, I’m going to end it here. Any additional comments on this subject will not be approved. Let’s get back to work, people!! 😉

Must….have…..new…..episode…….

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I fully agree with your first point (onus and such).

Not sure if it isn’t an appeal to authority (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority). Otherwise, I could have said that top Israeli generals believe that Iran has a military nuclear program, and it is also their job to find such evidence (well, in a less diplomatic way :)).

As for the fallacy, it would have been a plead to authority if Michael Jordan said Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA …

Just find it funny that you of all people would fall for a plead to authority 🙂

(full disclosure – I’m an Israeli, but this doesn’t matter, I think …)

After hearing your plea for review contribution I decided to do it (“It will take 5 minutes…” I thought to myself…).
Can I just say that I now hate Itunes even more then before!

Here are couple of things that irritated me:
1. You got to have Itunes application to register an account in order to give a review…
I don’t use apple products, I don’t use Itunes, had to download huge Itunes application…

2. As I don’t won’t to do anything with Itunes (besides giving a review) I don’t want to give them my credit card info… -> Search google for “Creating Itunes Store account without a credit card”… Turnes out you need multi-step tutorial just for registering… Talk about customer satisfaction based user interface…

3. Won’t even get deeper into why I searched on Google for “example UK phone number…” and “example UK zip code…”. I know Apple is US company, but making so much obstacles just for an online account in 2013 is just ‘broken’…

At least I learned something from Itunes and apple – “How not to iritate users of your application”…

Ordeal lasted for almost half hour but I got my review in and I wish you guys all the best !

ps. Only 22 reviews ? I thought you would have hundreds by now ? You should beg for more every episode 😉

Jason, I enjoy “Tesla, the story” and all the company does. I’m specifically speaking to the weekly rehash of explaining to Justin where you bought in, where the stock is relevant to your average price, etc. Maybe it would be a good Wiki entry. lol 😉

We don’t have an API specific expert on AnyFu yet, but that’s a great idea!

Could you do an episode where you go into detail about the do’s and don’t of an api that is going to be used for web and mobile applications.

I believe you are envisaging a series of ajax calls that return json. I know in a previous episode you debated how to handle security (does a user object get provided with every call ?)

A single discussion introducing the concept and main dos and don’ts would really interest me.

Do you know anyone on anyfu who would be good to talk to about this ? I have created my webapp without a documented, consistent api and I want to create one before I start mobile development.

Cheers
Sam

Be on the look out for a sweet new app from your friend Mark (via me)! We’re getting started in the next few days. Thanks again for the recommendation, much appreciated.

Aaron

IAEA is confused about Iran’s program:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/un-watchdog-concerned-iran-secretly-developing-nuclear-weapons-despite-iaea-talks-1.513148
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/iran-transfers-soil-base-targeted-nuclear-auditors-envoys/

I have little faith for world-wide organizations such as the UN and the committees it has, and IAEA.. its full of politics and it doesn’t reflect the truth at all. The fact Iran signed NPT means nothing to me, when time comes I’m sure Iran won’t care much.
In 73′, Yom Kippur war, Egypt and Syria broke cease-fire agreements and crossed the line. They were signed on some peace of paper as well at that time.

2008:
“…Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation”

2011,
“..like a cancer cell that spreads through the body, this regime infects any region. It must be removed from the body..”

The guy who said it, and has many more statements against Israel and US, he may be “peaceful” regarding his nuclear activities now, maybe, but what makes you so sure that he won’t flip at the end? When he does, and he’ll use his weapons, how many will die then?

Israel may or may not have nuclear weapon, but I’ve never heard any threats made by Israeli government officials to annihilate anyone. I have a feeling that if this nuclear yes/no rumor wasn’t out there, we would see more of what we had in 48′, 67′ and 73′. Sadly, I agree that having a bigger stick is the ultimate defense. Up until the point where the world believed Israel has nuclear power, israel suffered many annihilation attempts by its neighbors (although now we have much more terrorists to worry about and less wars, but still its an improvement of some sort).

This situation reminds me a little on Yom Kippur war in 73′:
In 73′, if Israel would attack first it won’t get any aid from US, Kissinger said so himself (Israel already had intel about the Egypt and Syria plans).
Yom Kippur war is by far one of the most tragic wars to Israel.
Another interesting fact about 73′ war: US plains were not allowed to land in any european country because the europeans were worried about their oil deals with Arab countries, lucky us…

If this time is like back in 1973, the consequences are far grater and affect the entire world.

For me the bottom line is that the small chance you’re wrong, we all pay the price.
You have any doubts about Iran’s involvement in terror around the world? what do you think will happen once they’ll have their friendly peaceful nuclear power?
For people who live in Israel this is a serious chance to take.
Even if Iran won’t attack Israel, it’ll drag the entire region to nuclear armsrace (Iran has strong grip on Syria and Lebanon) and we’ll have a mexican standoff.

I’ll look into the links you sent, thanks.

1. It is the consensus view of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran halted it’s nuclear weapons program in 2003.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/world/la-fg-iran-intel-20120224

2. In 1992, Netanyahu, claimed that Iran was three to five years from developing a nuclear bomb. It was a false statement then, and it’s a false statement now.
http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/Earliest-warnings-1979-84

3. While Israel refuses to confirm or deny anything about it’s nuclear weapons program, it is widely believed that Israel now has as many as 200 atomic warheads. Irony…?
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barak-no-threat-to-israel-s-policy-of-nuclear-ambiguity-1.289438

4. Israel, like North Korea and Pakistan, is not a signatory of the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons). Iran, on the other hand, is a signatory of the NPT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons

5. Not only is Iran a signatory of the NPT, but in 2003 they signed the Additional Protocol on Nuclear Safeguards treaty. IAEA inspectors are all over Iran inspecting their nuclear material and facilities on a weekly basis. Even if Iranian leadership wanted to begin working on a nuclear bomb, they would have to kick the IAEA out of the country, which would obviously alert the world.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2003/iranap20031218.html

6. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA, said he had not “seen a shred of evidence” that Iran was pursuing the bomb, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger,” he said. “All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.”
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Hersh-6-6-11.pdf

7. If Israel were to attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, or somehow manage to head fake the U.S. into doing it for them, it would likely result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iranian men, women and children. And if Israel decided to use nukes to achieve this (or if it escalated to that), those numbers would likely be in the millions. Israel, incidentally, would take quite a hit as well.
http://www.alternet.org/world/unimaginable-destruction-if-israel-did-attack-iran-nuclear-weapons
http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/pdf/1752-1505-7-10.pdf

8. Don’t allow yourself to fall victim to the politics of fear. It’s how the US congress and population was manipulated into supporting an aggressive war against Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of over a million Iraqis and thousands of American and coalition soldiers, not to mention an unimaginable cost of $6 trillion dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

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Long time fan of the show. I really enjoy the discussion every week.

Thought I would provide an insight into concerns about sharing. I work for a competitor to Uber in Sydney, Australia (goCatch.com). We are approaching the problem from the taxi end (as opposed to limos), but we are definitely in the same space.

I agree with Jason on this. I have found Jason’s insights on technical challenges and solutions at Uber interesting, but at no point have I caught myself thinking “WOW! We can use that”. Comparing architectures and approaches is interesting from an academic perspective, but that is all.

Just my two cents.

Have you thought about recording a long show, but splitting it in two so you can make the show weekly again?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-nepal-tv-record-idUSBRE93E0SJ20130415

1. Percona – it was an awesome talk with Alexander from Percona.
All the “Aha” moments we could’ve get for the next few months were squeezed into the single expert session. I honestly wanted to replicate he’s brain.

2. @Jason – the accountability website for public influencers – I thought about something like that for a while, but I found out that most of the public is losing interest quickly.
Usually public issues touch closely only a small group of people. Something might get millions of people involved at first, but the real problem is – how many people will actually care enough 6 months after the election? 6 months after someone promised to change something? to fix something? I believe the people that will actually care is a small group that feel strongly about the issue.

About 2 years ago, during the Arab spring, million Israelis demonstrated against the expensive living in Israel (population is 7 mil, 1 mil demonstrating is a lot). Since then – no real issue was resolved, its getting worse for a lot of families to survive, and the recent demonstration about the subject (the “reorganization” of the parties involved) was few thousands of people only.

In Israel we have a website maintained by a public org. (not the government) with issues and responsibilities of public figures. Anyone rarely looks at it and asks “So what’s going on with X?”. The media is trying, but as long as the public doesn’t care enough itself, the media won’t cover it.

I guess if most of us had less crazy life perhaps we could “afford” to care more.

3. Israel-Iran-Nuclear weapon issue – the information about it is so conflicted. There are many reports that state Iran is actually developing a nuclear weapon (or at least trying to).

Frankly, I don’t trust the media much especially if the source of the information is a government.
I believe that Iran is building a nuclear weapon to be at the same status like Pakistan and North Korea. That’s its biggest goal.
Problem is, Iran is responsible for many terror organizations, weaponizing and training them.
Iran may not actually bomb Israel with nuclear rockets, and Iran may not give nuclear weapons to terror org. – but is it a chance we (Israelis) should take? is it a chance the entire world should take (US and Europe suffer from terror attacks as well)?

Many say that Iran won’t bomb Israel because we have Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt around us. True. But Hamas bombed Jerusalem recently, a city they feel so strongly about and call it their sacred place (in their bombing of Jerusalem they actually hit an area populated with Palestinians without any remorse) so how much can you really trust their love for each other?

Bottom line, I don’t think that a government like Iran should have a nuclear power. The implications (or possible implications) of nuclear Iran are so great and scary that the world should seriously consider putting an end to it. I know how awful a war is, that’s the last thing I want, but when you allow the violent kid at school to walk around with a rock, he will make more damage next time he’s getting pissed at someone (sounds better in Hebrew).