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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by glaucon on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:21AM (#24835020)
No love for Thiel or the mechanism by which he gained a NZ residency visa but the reality is the property in question is a sheep farm 3/4 of a square mile in size beside a pretty lake.

That article spends an inordinately long time speculating that there's an "everything proof" structure been built on it but (as far as I saw skim reading) provides no evidence for that at all. You'd be hard pressed keeping that sort of construction quiet in NZ, everyone knows everyone.

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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by jessaustin on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:07AM (#24836017)
.75 sq mile is 480 acres. That is a truly large property, especially in this context.
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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by merpnderp on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:17AM (#24836429)
If it’s good land you’d be pressed to run a hundred head of cattle on it. It qualifies as a tiny ranch.
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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by jessaustin on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:09PM (#24875732)
It's not West Texas; it's Otago on South Island.
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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by sjg007 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:46AM (#24835163)
He has citizenship and at least one house in NZ.
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Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency by seniorivn on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:16AM (#24835333)
have you watched BrBa? gus fringe fegured it out
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