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SF de facto did. I used to live a couple blocks away from one. That said, they are now being shut down due to Federal liability reasons [0] [0] - https://missionlocal.org/2022/12&…

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tl;dr - the big issue right now on the Hill with regards to FTX is that a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle haven't returned FTX donated money, and the CFTC bill that FTX lobbied f…

The big issue right now conflict of interest wise is that a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle haven't returned FTX donated money, and the CFTC bill that FTX lobbied for is still al…

Venezuela makes sense for the top leaders because they would worry more so about extradition. Malaysia makes sense for the rest of the party apparatus. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of the …

The current Iranian government has strong relations with Malaysia - Iranian oil is often exported on tankers with Malaysian flags[0] and Malaysian politicians often lean pro-Iran[1][2] due to anti-imp…

Egypt has strong a military relationship with Saudi and the US so a no-go Libya's governments have strong military relationships with Turkey and/or the US+France so a no-go If they try to ta…

It's hard to find resources in English describing the Cybersecurity environment and posture in Japan, but having worked with Japanese organizations in that space, they have decent talent but midd…

Were the people you talked to ex-NATO or ex-ANA. The ex-ANA people I've chatted with had a bit of derision for the NATO forces.

I live in an area of SF that has seen a number of Pakhtun refugees and ex-ANA servicemembers in the aftermath of the collapse. Listening to some of their first hand stories it's also pretty clear…

A lot of this has changed over the past 10 years because of digitization. By removing the need to physically file paperwork or physical verification, there's less opportunity or ability for low l…

To be fair, a lot of the comp in those low paying government jobs can be recovered by the employees of those jobs asking the people they're serving for a little "extra" to speed up the …

This is a good book on some field research around the anthropological concept of "waiting" in North India - https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=17650 . Looking at …

Lol. Eh ka backchodi hai.

Government Ownership and subsidies play a factor too - ~12% of equity and 20% of voting shares is owned by the State of Lower Saxony [0][1]. This ownership by a state with 10% of Bundestag has helped …

In the North (Haryana, Punjab, western UP) you have 3-4 harvesting seasons with maybe a week between each other. Leaving stubble means you lose out on a harvesting season. If you want to maximize subs…

Yep, but Gurgaon's urban voters don't impact Haryana Vidhan Sabha elections. If I wanna become CM of Haryana, do I want to make 1 MLA's constituent's happy or 3 MLA's constitu…

How many votes can Gurgaon's urban population bring? Not as much as Kisan Sabhas in Sohna, Pataudi, Farrukhnagar, and Manesar. How many votes can urban NOIDA or Ghaziabad voters bring to UP Legis…

Delhi is a separate state* from Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh (states where stubble burning is very common). Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh's politicans won't piss off the farmer bl…

Vietnam: Zalo or FB Messenger, not WhatsApp

Both. Foundations allow HNW individuals to pass on large portfolios to descendants while also providing PR, Comms, and Political benefits to the family. (Note to Self - flesh out w/ source).

To be fair, foundation ownership is used more as a way to bypass estate taxes in German businesses [0] as a charitable foundation can continue to give 30% of it’s income to the family who founded the …

Nevada did this to California a couple years ago actually [0][1]. That said, a number of major em cities such as New York do offer homeless people the choice to accept a lump sum and a ticket to the c…

For reference, the conversation in the article has the Eurozone in mind primarily.

Interesting to see Americans now learning about the Indian media environment. I wrote a (non-exhaustive) thread about it sometime back here on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

100% agree about Boston - it's basically an East Coast version of the Bay Area, but software is very clearly overshadowed by Biotech/Pharma and the tech industry leans cybersecurity+defense …

I dislike how transplants tend to broadly paint the East Bay. It isn't a cheap region either. Most blue collar labor types living in the East Bay are in the Alameda County flatlands (parts of New…

But if you're someone who values nature along with a solid food scene and a strong white collar job base (Software, Hardware, Biotech/Pharma, Healthcare, Accounting, West Coast IB) your only…