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The end user experience of the sewage system in Dubai is no different than in regular Western cities. That’s really all that matters when trying to figure out if it’s “working” or not.

You’ll find more slaves per capita in the US where prisoners are widely used as actual slave labor.

It’s not like they’re making residents pay high taxes to pay for the tankers either.

In this context it makes sense to look at things from that perspective. On reddit it would of course be different.

Most of these aren’t my favourites, but they’re definitely well loved in world class cities like London.

Do I think Dubai is a world class city? Nah. But it’s not very far.

Personally I’m really not a fan of the place, I’d only ever visit to meet with lawyers. Too warm, too much sand, most of the restaurants can also be found in much better cities (Monaco has most of the aforementioned within a short distance, and vastly better beaches)

It’s not like someone randomly tweeted child pornography or bomb threats from his account.

The fact that jacquesm could immediately recover his account by deleting this tweet completely discredits this theory.

I absolutely despise Kyiv Independent for working to discredit real journalists by pushing completely absurd propaganda, like the “ghost of Kyiv” lie.

These things are more complicated than they might seem at first glance.

Would this not taint any investigation started on the basis of coerced testimony? Why would the exclusionary rule not kick in here?

As far as I understand in a criminal context no adverse inference may be drawn from ones refusal to self-incriminate. How would investigating someone for refusing to self-incriminate to the IRS not be exactly that?

E: Found some related literature which I am reading now https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

I’m not a lawyer, I don’t know anything. I’m just curious.

But there are in fact big infosec businesses trading them. They just brand it as “data leak monitoring” or “darknet intelligence” or whatever. Equifax does this, NortonLifeLock does this as do many others. There are also products aimed specifically for pentesters.

> As someone else mentioned, an 'access device' actually refers to many things, including emails

>”Access device" is defined at 18 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1). Instead of using the term "credit card," or "debit/credit instrument," the term "access device" is used in the statute and is defined broadly as any "card, plate, code, account number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other telecommunications service, equipment, or instrument identifier, or other means of account access that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain money, goods, services, or any other thing of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds...." The only limitation, i.e., "other than a transfer originated solely by paper instrument," excludes activities such as passing forged checks.

But that’s just playing along with the spirit of the rules, not a loophole.

Can you even properly playback 4K HDR content from Linux? I don’t think so.

Format support on desktop platforms is awful.

Even a network share would take more work to set up than Plex.

Why Plex? Easy set up, vastly better UI than a network share, works from outside the home. I travel often and frequently benefit from the transcoding feature when dealing with shitty hotel wifi. Friends love it too.

Playing directly from a regular computer isn’t a very good option due to shit format support.

Is it really convenient? Sure! As long as you ignore all the work that goes into setup and maintenance. I’d be deluding myself if I tried to pretend that this is anything but yet another part of a really expensive and time consuming home theater hobby.

Even at it’s best DIY piracy is still miles away from just being able to open up Netflix and start watching.

Of course you can pay for someone else to maintain the Plex server for you, which isn’t a horrible option.

While there’s a plenty of content I enjoy watching even if it’s only available in 480, 4K DV content on the big screen offers a completely different level of immersion.

I really like DS9, but it clearly suffers from its format. Even basic things like the ability to make out facial expressions of the cast become more difficult or even impossible at lower resolutions.

As far as I can tell, lawmakers simply have not criminalized this.

Many things that obviously should be illegal are not illegal.

And besides, indictments are not law.

Trading in hacked data might not be illegal unless it’s credit card information, but your average hosting provider probably isn’t going to care about such nuances.

This is the normal military usage.

But why? Western countries with modern worker protection laws would never grant visas to these people. Qatar lets them in by the millions.

How is this supposed to be a reasonable comparison?

But if we were to believe these numbers, the only possible conclusions would reflect very well on Qatar.

That’s actually not at all what those numbers suggest.

He didn’t like what I had to say, and chose to attack my account instead. While I might have been a little harsh in my reply to that, I said nothing that wasn’t perfectly in line with his comments.

It’s not unfair to call him an ideologue, he admits to hating the advertising industry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30916159

Given the nature of his other comments under this post, and his choice to attack me over the age of my account it was certainly not unfair to point out his disinterest in engaging in a thoughtful conversation.