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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 ope…

>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. S…

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 o…

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…

Worked great for Zimbabwe!

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.

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 p…

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 transatlant…

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…

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…

Why would they need go to a country subject to treaties. Unrecognized territories like transnistria (weev!),rojava,Somaliland,Ambazonia, western Sahara, Palestine (before invasion)…

Minority, but not small. Something like 40% do not complete probation.

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 wo…

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 d…

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

Cop killing fugitives iirc, that Cubans won't hand over (Assata Shakur et al)

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. T…

The Uber driver is basically a business owner fulfilling contracts to customers brokered through an online clearinghouse. They're hyper capitalists exploiting regulatory advantages…

Isn't Uber/Lyft a broker/market? Wouldn't it be the driver cheated himself, or the passenger contracting the driver cheated him?

Malicious industry capture is more likely explanation than stupidity IMO. Sell bigger more expensive shit while shutting down economical competition.

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…

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 mainta…

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 smal…