salamanderss

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by salamanderss 3y ago
Can you name a single American prosecuted for fighting for the YPG? Yes my passport was flagged and I was harassed for years but I think you're uninformed on this issue. I have openly been living an admitted to DHS ex-YPG for nearly
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by salamanderss 3y ago
>Also, I don't think you've ever travelled to actual developing countries or have a background with them. Going from one undeveloped country to another makes absolutely no sense. Stuff is still fucked in developing country B as
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by salamanderss 3y ago
There are 55k Palestinians diaspora in Yemen and that has an even worse HDI than Rwanda. The number of fallacies you've presented I'm starting to lose track. You've used anecdote of an afghan family, general population HDI
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by salamanderss 3y ago
I never meant to imply Rwanda is better than the aforementioned on a general level. When you are legitimately fleeing rather than economically migrating though that typically means your individual HDI of sorts was already near zero. It do
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Worked great for Zimbabwe!
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by salamanderss 3y ago
You could do a lot worse than Rwanda if you were fleeing Russia or the West Bank or something. Usually CBI are investment only in name, they're seen as a total loss.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
It's astonishing there's no bare bones citizen by investment scheme in sub Saharan Africa. Given the corruption and access to Rwanda and Kenya it seems like an obvious easy money printer.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Not sure I'd want to live in Ambazonia but they speak English and would likely not have many that recognize his face. It also would have been easily accessible by yacht transatlantic from the Bahamas into a difficult to patrol estuary
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by salamanderss 3y ago
There's no riskless path remaining after you've defrauded billions of dollars. Iirc the white girl who bombed the subway in london is thought to be still hiding in such a territory like two decades later.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
That's hilarious considering neither Mexico nor US checks passports when you walk into Mexico in CA/az west except maybe San Ysidro crossing. She literally could have walked across and nobody would know, instead she did the dumbe
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Why would they need go to a country subject to treaties. Unrecognized territories like transnistria (weev!),rojava,Somaliland,Ambazonia, western Sahara, Palestine (before invasion), fractions of Myanmar, idlib, rebel held congo fractions,
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Minority, but not small. Something like 40% do not complete probation.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Uber explicitly lets you drive under an EIN/LLC. If you want to IC it you can as well. You ( not you you but you hypothetical driver) may consider yourself as an employee but it would be if your own company, or self employed. Not Uber
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by salamanderss 3y ago
I would argue Lyft/Uber are merely shitty brokers. You can definitely contract with a broker to use take it or leave it price fixing, it's just not a quality I would particularly desire.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Your and other comments below are fascinating, but she was already sentenced to life instead of death, and after her jailbreak was granted asylum as a free woman in Cuba
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Cop killing fugitives iirc, that Cubans won't hand over (Assata Shakur et al)
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Hmm seems possible although unlikely. Last time we had more than a decade of free trade with Cuba we had quite the incentive to support Batista and various us interest dictators. The embargo probably helps keep certain interests out of th
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by salamanderss 3y ago
The Uber driver is basically a business owner fulfilling contracts to customers brokered through an online clearinghouse. They're hyper capitalists exploiting regulatory advantages over taxi drivers then sad face at the downsides to t
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Isn't Uber/Lyft a broker/market? Wouldn't it be the driver cheated himself, or the passenger contracting the driver cheated him?
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Malicious industry capture is more likely explanation than stupidity IMO. Sell bigger more expensive shit while shutting down economical competition.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
SUV OGs were body on frame. Enclosed trucks basically. Soccer moms and dads driving to the grocery and back with their three spawn though have more market share. So they sell you a unibody oversized car that would be absolutely destroyed i
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by salamanderss 3y ago
And yet when I actually go building the only place I could afford it was to go to a place with no code or safety inspections. This make HN mind melt, many folks here want to maintain the house crushing regulatory machine because all said th
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Pickup trucks are huge in large part because of fuel efficiency regulations like CAFE which regulate fuel use per unit area. Ironically deregulating fuel efficiency would make small efficient pickups sellable again. Also repealing chicken t
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Yeah it also causes the problem of making it a real pain in the ass to buy cheaper plots of land. Realtor often don't give a flying fuck about the sale of stuff under 50k, not worth it for them. Can be hard to get representation.
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by salamanderss 3y ago
How many lives of man hours are lost from overhead for these costs and compliance? The issue is people enforcing these regulations see the dead bodies from the burned out home but not the dead bodies of the homeless or the kids with less f
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by salamanderss 3y ago
My town solved the guilty until proven innocent issue regarding permits by just giving people carte blanche. Imo this is far more rational: if the county can't/won't verify paperwork they should default towards freedom and l
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by salamanderss 3y ago
They usually aren't it's an argument used to scare people into making housing stock replenishment more expensive and lock in property values. I'm building a house now. I sent the county... A picture of a square on a map. No
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Cool let's deconstruct: >Didn’t vice catch a bunch of flack for over sensationalizing their “reporting?” Awesome ad hominem against the people recording actual Nigerians testimony. >Regardless I’d be more inclined to believe an a
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by salamanderss 3y ago
Cool here's a documentary with an English speaking hostage negotiator in Nigeria with family in the other side of the business (talks start around 4:30). I'm afraid, YOU are wrong. My opinion wasn't idle thought but derived
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by salamanderss 3y ago
I responded to a comment on hostage and ransom negotiation business. Hostages aren't normally considered ransomware, although said negotiators would have excellent overlapping skill set. Travel.gov has an advisory for hostage taking i

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