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Shame, I smoked a blunt 3 months ago in California. I'll try again next year!
I wonder what the stats are on how many amazing candidates they are losing because someone had an edible on a weekend 9 months ago. “Sorry, you admitted you drank a beer 6 months back. Try again in a couple of years and don’t drink!”
Why would a person doing this type of crime reside in the US? I understand quality of life is higher than Russia, but Russia neighbors Latvia--her country of origin. It is confusing to me because if she were there, her activities would have been discovered but she would have had the tacit protection of the state.
Have you been to Russia?
Quite frankly she doesn’t come across as very smart, and certainly not very technologically sophisticated. The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development. It is interesting that they’re hiring based on job boards. I don’t know how normal gangs recruit but I’d guess it’s a lot of word of mouth. It seems when there are real honest alternatives out there for skilled…
This doesn’t in any way downplay your point, I just noticed this sentence and it made me think: “The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.” It’s probably natural for most folks on HN to consider “googling problems” an obvious, basic first solution - but I’m always stunned by how many people in real life, outside of the IT industry, don’t have that path in th…
Not as much as SEO "how to break search" opportunities.
Wait hang on, that cliff hanger though >"Multiple security experts quickly zeroed in on how investigators were able to retrieve the funds, which did not represent the total amount Colonial paid (~$4.4 million): The amount seized was roughly what a top DarkSide affiliate would have earned for scoring the initial malware infection that precipitated the ransomware incident." I'm not quite sure what this implies? That th…
If you would have clicked on the link to the article, it's explained in a little more detail and a few experts weigh in with what likely happened: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-...
Why would a person doing this type of crime reside in the US? I understand quality of life is higher than Russia, but Russia neighbors Latvia--her country of origin. It is confusing to me because if she were there, her activities would have been discovered but she would have had the tacit protection of the state.
> quality of life is higher than Russia Have you been to Russia?
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Most drug dealers I know just do it to achieve a lifestyle they wouldn't normally be capable of with their existing job(s).
Most drug dealers are doing it so they can smoke/drink for free maybe make a few dollars.
That whole gangster rap testosterone street $900 shoe guy.
In college, I moved into a very cheap apartment. I had no idea, it was the worst part of Oakland. I saw some things that didn't make any sense. Some successful dealers had other opportunities. Most probally didn't. I was so naieve, I didn't know my roommate was selling until my second semester. I just though he had a lot of friends. He finally told me what he did one night over a video game.
Where is he now? He's in a midwest prison over dealing pot. Yes, dealing pot. Why? He heard Potheads pay triple for what Californian's pay. He got his brother to come along. I remember him telling his brother, "you don't want to be a Waiter for life?"
He, and his brother go to Ohio. They set up shop. They weren't violent, and didn't fit the stereotypes of a drug dealers.
Everything was fine until they hired this little rich white kid who thought he was in a NWA alternative reality. He was "slinging" their product in his vernacular.
Will this idiot killed a guy over a small amount of pot.
The cops were more interested in the "kingpin" behind the operation.
Well the kid squealed, and the prosecutor threw the book at my friend. They made him out to be Pablo Chicone. He was anything but a hard nosed killer. He never even owned a gun.
Well, he got a long sentence.