Ok so it's very clear that you've been rightly caught up in Russian sanctions. Your recourse is to put pressure on the Russian government of which you are a citizen.
Oh wait. That's not how it works? You mean the tyrant who's invading another country doesn't give a rat's behind about the opinions of the citizens of the country he already controls?
He can't single-handedly oust a dictator, obviously. But sanctions have collateral damage and that's very much intentional. Lots of people who are actually in Russia are having a much, much harder time than OP right now.
My opinion of the HN and the whole startup / silicon valley crowd got significantly worse because of the predominance of people like mdoms here on HN. Clueless, entitled and often bordering on being straight up evil with their "good intentions". "Just go back to your country and overthrow your dictator, aren't you a citizen" somehow seems to be a common line of thinking here.
I smell trolling in his comments, but, in general, it's a very common worldview that is probably caused by excessive Marvel-like products consumption. If you go to a place like r/worldnews, you will see this is a mainstream position there
Yea, that subreddit group seems to be promoting anger, rage, hawkish behavior in people. And, the worst thing is they are epitome of Dunning Kruger effects, and they believe they consummately know about geopolitics, science, politics etc.. Probably, complete anonymity & intolerance without consequence has imbued wildness in those people. I just hope HN would discourage such behavior.
I admire and support people willing to die for democracy and freedom, but I have serious doubts there is any overlap between those heroes and these armchair warriors telling other people to risk their lives.
asats, I wish for more people to understand that there are shades between black and white, who're looking to hear arguments before making quick decisions. But it doesn't seem their percentage is much different in other communities than silicon valley / HN, it seems like a major problem attached to humanity itself. I hope for this to change while I'm alive and sane though. Would be cool to see.
The issue is not a result of sanctions: it has started much earlier. Thank you for bringing this as a potential reason and I think I understand why you're trying to kind of activate people who're not standing against the regime and the war. But this is not my case: I'm also against the regime and the war, I do what I can to support my Ukrainian teammates and friends, all of my teammates and friends do the same.
But again, this isn't the topic of this discussion. But thanks.
For Canada: good luck. I gave up after a couple of years of waiting with endless promises that it would soon be resolved, it felt like building on quicksand.
Wait, I thought canadian citizenship is pretty much guaranteed after ~3 years as a permanent resident. I'm not sure since I got it when I was 9 years old but is it different now? Is it even possible to get without a PR?
I personally think its egregious to tax people when they aren't using any resource from the country where they don't live. Tax is mainly collected for development of nation, at least that's what government says.
Yes, that is what they say, what they do is largely different. The outcome, and my current view, is that the threat of taxes incentives other kinds of transactions, and when those transactions are not pursued then the remainder of the money available is taxed.
This means do the transactions that are not tax events, do the transactions that are deductible expenses, do the transactions that result in tax credits. Invest in the area or sector experiencing the tax holiday, move to the area with the tax exemption.
No individual politician will say it that way, any individual politician will say the opposite “tax everyone, fair share, yada yada”, but they are politicians, and the political body in aggregate creates tax laws more similar to my observation.
And yes, I can acknowledge that there is a very limited number of things that a wage slave can do to reduce taxes. The tax code awards taking risks, this doesn't mean the employee wont fail and have no remaining ability to exchange time for food and shelter. But if you dont fail, it will continue rewarding you.
Oh wait. That's not how it works? You mean the tyrant who's invading another country doesn't give a rat's behind about the opinions of the citizens of the country he already controls?
Weird.
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