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Your definition involves strange mental gymnastics to turn a perfectly functional albeit expensive sewage system into a non-working sewage system.

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.

There is no slavery in Dubai, oppression yes, but not actual slavery.

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

From the end user perspective that still seems like a working sewage system, no?

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

Sure, but HN audience is primarily rich tech workers, entrepreneurs and temporarily embarrassed versions of those.

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

I mean I’m deliberately neglecting to mention all the European restaurants like L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, LPM, Gaia, COYA, Zuma, Cipriani and so many others.

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)

Why would OP need to lie about this if he had a well documented history of posting this kind of comments? Now that would be weird.

Sorry, I totally missed the “Blindly believe all outrageous claims posted on HN” part of the guidelines. My bad.

Except it doesn’t. Twitter doesn’t usually ban accounts for tweets like these. And when they do, they’ll automatically unban you if you delete the tweet.

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.

Exactly! It makes way more sense for a person who tweeted something deeply out of character to try and disavow it in this way, than for a person that regularly tweets this kind of things.

I’m Ukrainian, very pro-West Ukrainian at that.

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.

Of course, but the fifth amendment only protects you from self-incrimination if you explicitly invoke it (or keep your mouth shut). Not if you lie.

Go on. How is forcing someone to testify against themselves with the threat of criminal charges (tax fraud!) and then using that information in a criminal investigation not a 5th amendment violation.

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

Presumably investigating someone over that would violate their 5th amendment rights, no?

> If trading hacked emails wasn't illegal, you'd have legitimate and big businesses trading them.

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.