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811.
by asdff 5mo ago
Seems cheap to you and me but that is about the full annual income of someone from somalia. It isn't realistic for an individual to purchase one without external support.
812.
by asdff 5mo ago
Well it isn't like you can do very much hunting with an RPG-7. Its purpose is to destroy material that you cannot with small arm fire and that sort of limits the intended purpose and customer.
813.
by asdff 5mo ago
Same reasons as the context of this photo (1). One party would like to advance some geopolitical interest, another party is willing to do it if they are paid and supported as such. No different than any other business deal. 1. https:/
814.
by asdff 5mo ago
It isn't as heavy handed as people might have assumed. I can't find the exact quote now but there is one from a filmmaker saying they had more creative freedom under the USSR than the US. In the USSR there were some things you cou
815.
by asdff 5mo ago
One issue with using hollywood accounting for zoning is failing to consider the context of the site, especially in terms of infrastructure and job access, in favor of historical protections. All that subway capacity and walkability to so ma
816.
by asdff 5mo ago
Well, it directly leads to registration fees and insurance rates being higher than they would normally with everyone paying in properly. There's also air quality concerns with people not going for smog checks. So people not playing tha
817.
by asdff 5mo ago
You can tell when it isn't a normal person buying a new car when it is your neighbor's car you see for multiple years with those "temporary" tags. I catch a lot of out of date registration too. Usually those cars are par
818.
by asdff 5mo ago
These have funny loopholes usually. For our county they have a few connected to running the red light for a busway. But notoriously the information is collected by some company out of state with no actual policing power, who then begs you t
819.
by asdff 5mo ago
In socal people might not even use license plates at all. Some people mask them with a towel or something like that. Some run paper dealership plates which I guess don't need to have any license number on them at all, just the dealer l
820.
by asdff 5mo ago
It would be refreshing if anyone in government cared about such things.
821.
by asdff 5mo ago
It isn't that which is the issue. It is the fact greenwich village has been at the same height since even before Don Draper's time. You see, the suburban enclaves of long island and upstate and new jersey and the comparatively mor
822.
by asdff 5mo ago
The difference is those groups promote culture for culture's sake. Capitalism does not. Culture is only promoted if there is profit to be made off promoting it. As such what culture exists is severely inorganic and dependent on market
823.
by asdff 5mo ago
So sad to me how combative Apple has been towards open source software over the years. The peak of the jailbreak era was imo peak mobile development too. So much innovation and rapid iteration. Anything seemed possible and anything really w
824.
by asdff 5mo ago
Actually, it is a marketing issue. Taxis did innovate and did improve and imo are a better product than uber today. They have an app that is no different than what you expect with rideshare apps. Actually it is better, I can schedule a ride
825.
by asdff 5mo ago
The level of ordinance is enough evidence that there is significant outside support. RPG-7s do not grow on trees in Somalia. I hazard to guess an RPG on the black market is also a great expense to anyone who isn't being given one by on
826.
by asdff 5mo ago
Of course it gets a little muddy when you consider the europeans also had state sponsored privateers. I would not consider state sponsored pirates like this to be the same as pirates who operated against the interests of basically all state
827.
by asdff 5mo ago
No? I'm talking about who is sponsoring the somali pirates. I'm not connecting them to these groups. They are already connected to these groups in particular. I didn't just name three random terrorist organizations. These gro
828.
by asdff 5mo ago
Are they not commingled with Al Shabaab, Daesh, and the Houthis?
829.
by asdff 5mo ago
That also supports the government capacity argument. The US was able to make peace with the barbary states and extract a right of safe passage assurance from them. Why? Because the leadership of these states had enough government capacity t
830.
by asdff 5mo ago
It also doesn't help the game species that are hunted are a lot closer to ourselves in relation than many other typical game species elsewhere in the world. Much more likely for zoonotic spillover.
831.
by asdff 5mo ago
People eat the reservoir species for these diseases in these areas. Not much local government can do about something that has been done for all of human history. Can't exactly tell a hungry person capable of hunting for themselves to s
832.
by asdff 5mo ago
The volatility is only an issue if you need to convert the bitcoin in the near future. If you are willing to wait, volatility goes in your advantage. Bitcoin is volatile enough that if you wait for maybe a few years you will probably hit a
833.
by asdff 5mo ago
Seems like piracy is more about the land than the sea. I can't think of any major american military action against piracy aside from actions against somali terrorists. Seems piracy as it was known historically died out as the old histo
834.
by asdff 5mo ago
Ahh yes the [ Removed by Reddit ] function
835.
by asdff 5mo ago
Police are a great example of this. The biggest police departments all struggle to recruit today. They are always hiring and have dropped standards to reach out for more candidates. Why? Anyone with a brain knows the best job in policing is
836.
by asdff 5mo ago
People are driven by dopamine. Promotions lead to dopamine. So does gambling. Cigarettes. Sex with hookers. Locking down your series A. Hearing the engine go vrooom. Voting for the guy that loudly says "fuck you" to the other guy.
837.
by asdff 5mo ago
>My kid went to a UC Berkeley adjacent pre-school and had researchers come by all the time, filming and taking notes (after consent forms were signed). They would share their studies with us later, it was very illuminating. My undergrad
838.
by asdff 5mo ago
This is the whole point and the reason for the lofty valuations. Get everyone to shift their work to be dependent on these tooling, to the point they can't imagine working in any other way, and then raise prices. Tale as old as enterpr
839.
by asdff 5mo ago
Seems like from the comments in this thread there are other companies offering similar roofs now at least.
840.
by asdff 5mo ago
>capability to bring together disparate information sources and chart a path forward This isn't really anything you couldn't do already though.

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