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People buy luxury items either because they enjoy their quality (the minority), or more often because they make them feel good about themselves. When you're not satisfied with your life but you don't want to look miserable you buy an expensive car and immediately you're way above the stack because let's face it, 80% of the population out there thinks exactly like that. People can't value ideas, ethics, knowledge and such, it's much easier to value items. You own a Mercedes you're someone successful. People start treating you differently. And that's the single most exhilarating thing about looking successful, it creates a reality distortion field for pretty much everyone around you. You get more chicks, everyone wants to be your friend, your opinion is more valued, and the list goes on. So you see, they get something out of the equation and that's why they're willing to enslave their lives into debt. Success is like a drug, and if you can't achieve it at least you can fake your way into it.
Sweden also criminalises knowingly renting to sex workers. Women who've gone to the police about being raped by a client have been made homeless as a result after the police got in touch with their landlords and told them to evict. This was one of the major contributors to Amnesty International coming out so strongly as they did against the Swedish model.
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Who do you think that was aimed at?
> I bet if we fast forward 1000 years, you'd find that software engineering will have become as rigorous as what we have today in civil engineering.

This isn't evident at all. In software, every situation is novel, so there is no room for repeatable processes.

You can build a "bridge library" once and tweak it for each situation, but you never need to develop a rigorous process to build that library again.
The market is great when it works. But some fields by their very nature are just not amenable to market competition. Healthcare is one of them: people just can't meaningfully shop around (or choose not to be treated) when they have a serious health issue (indeed they might not even be conscious at the time).

In those cases, democratic accountability through the government process is the best we can do, and better than the no accountability that will otherwise happen. Industries where meaningful competition is possible should be privatised, but natural monopolies should be nationalised.
Yeah like every other movement it tends to become commercialised and mainstreamed over time.
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Well, this highly connotates with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14945045
It's weird to see a bunch of people trying to refute this very clear point: we don't have many guns and so we have very little gun crime.

gun murders per million people UK: 0.236
gun murders per million people US: 32.57
I've been thinking about this a lot recently too. So much of what we do in life is driven by its social signaling value. Our lists of likes, dislikes, purchases, hobbies, decisions, and more are all heavily influenced by the perceptions and judgements of the people around us.

Take the decision to buy that shiny SUV. People know that the age and quality of the car you drive is linked to your personality and financial success. If you buy yourself a Model X, 95% of people around you will perceive you differently: environmentally concerned, passionate early adopter, bad at ROI calculations. Driving a beater even though you could obviously afford more is another way of signaling your prudence and risk tolerance.

And why not? We are first and foremost social, tribal creatures. So I would say you're not an odd duck, there's just a different set of values you're trying to signal.
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On the face of it, the lender has no more incentive, but having an unforgeable trail of ownership and payment may improve the value of the loan as it passes from hand to hand.

That all said, a blockchain is not really required. Better standards and a trusted third party would do fine.
> Stack Overflow isn’t of too much help, as developer relations from a company called Stormpath loved plugging their IaaS startup on every imaginable post regarding this. Their documentation also popped up everywhere and they have a blogvertisement on password reset, as well. However, all of this is for naught as Stormpath is defunct, and it shuts down entirely August 17, 2017.

I remember these guys and I had a serious argument back them with one of the. I pity companies who bought into their services and depend on it today. People often push the idea that security and ID management should be "outsourced". They shouldn't, security audits should.
I speculate that the person has an intuition of human variation on any dimension as normally distributed, including performance on metrics on the Systemizing Quotient or the Autism Spectrum Quotient.
I am not. My email in my bio might make you think that!

I worked alone in a lab doing it, none of my co-workers were interested at all.
But software is the spec. In many cases, if you can formally specify what a function should do, you have already written it.
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If you're looking for a rails/devise like solution there is none. Passport is just an express middleware which is mostly useless, just like express in general.
I think this is just your personal experience. People have been going to Andover since 1778 and to Eton since 1440.

Is it possible that your peer group now is wealthier than your peer group as a child?
I've read the paper you provided, and it doesn't have a single professional point to make against IQ tests, the g factor, their predictive ability and correlation on job performance or anything else really.

Rather than rigorously discussing on what is technically wrong with the corpus of evidence and how it could be improved, she throws and regurgitates FUD in so many areas that it is nigh-impossible to address them all.

Thanks for wasting fifteen minutes of my life, OtherHobbes.
Yet, the logic of conspicuous consumption may as well work the other way round: Where being fat was seen as a sign on high social status once today it's a sign of low social status. One can signal status be consuming less rather than more.

Actually, this doesn't mean that the fat person is consuming more - in fact, they might be consuming less in bulk. The contents of their consumption differ greatly though. While the well-to-do person might be eating a lot of fresh vegetables, lean meats, and plenty of whole grains, the poor person might dine entirely on cheap boxed food, TV dinners, and dollar-menu fast food while spending less per month on food.
Why do you think going from 0k -> 20k makes less of a difference than 30k -> 50k?(And we're talking about consumption not production, so weird things like having government benefits removed don't factor in).
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https://freelance.chat/ is the slack channel. And am I the only one confused that anyone would join a slack channel for $50?
Assume that someone who rent 3 properties also have a place they live in.

Can be a 4th property. Can be that 1 of the rental is simply an independent floor in their 4 stories house.

Either way, if you own at least 3 properties you can have enough income to live.
Maybe this is a US thing. Here in the UK, cold calling is illegal (for consumers at least, not 100% sure about businesses), and for a good reason - it's extremely irritating! Anyone cold calling me would go straight on my shit-list.
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Hookers can probably avoid to pay much income tax, due to being paid in cash most of the time.
If one believe it's a human construct and the other doesn't and they decide to study science based on that they will end up with very different results. Furthermore depending on how you understand the world you will be encouraged or discouraged from pursuing various paths.

So no it's not just about defining it differently it's about whether you believe red is "out there" or whether it's "in your mind" if you can't see why that's important then that's your problem not mine.
Looking at the discussion around your and Turing_Machine's points, I think one could generalize the problem like this: in a large and complicated search space, finding a solution is much faster and cheaper than trying to comprehend and formally describe the search space (to later derive the solutions). The up-front costs of doing the latter are so high (I don't think we even have a good bounds on them) that nobody who needs a solution bothers with it. Iterative search is the only way individuals and teams can feasibly find the solution they're looking for.

This way, I think formalizing software development is a worthwhile goal - just like formalizing cooking is - but it's also obviously so uneconomical that we can't expect the industry to bother with it. Formal methods are pretty much basic research - not useful for us in any meaningful timeframe, but hopefully our grandchildren will get some mind-blowingly amazing tools out of it.
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You keep "quoting" CDC studies.

So far I'm the only one who's posted a link to a CDC study and it says precisely the opposite of what you've said.
prostitution is probably the oldest profession.
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Yeah only pinko hippies like the IMF believe that :)

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1402.pdf
I don't have a formal CS background and have indeed run into the issues you've described.

I generally resort to Google and then go find the best approach and implement it if necessary.

I taught myself the basics of the underlying stuff (and it helps that I'm an older developer who grew up on Turbo Pascal and C since I do have a working knowledge of what the machine is doing underneath).

Those are rare cases though.
Are you suggesting that rich people use those utilities like education or infrastructure for free? Because I'm pretty sure that they already pay for them, in taxes or otherwise. And of course their companies also PROVIDE some of the services you mentioned.
Are you implying that all countries except the US were poor in the 1950s? While the US was at the head of the per-capita GDP ranking in 1950, there were others that followed close: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-p...

Notably Venezuela was 4th, which seems especially sad given the recent developments there.
Yeah, consumer protection and general employment law in the US is a whole other conversation.
Your "fiscal liberal" doesn't make that much sense. I suspect their claim would be towards regulating the business, making sure the workers have rights, can negotiate better conditions and ultimately resign if they wanted. Probably education would be pushed to be cheaper or free, programs to transition people out of it put in place, etc.
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Well some people are forced into gang violence. That does not give a good reason to legalize violence.

Some people are forced into working in sweatshops to sew t-shirts. That does not make a good reason to criminalize t-shirts.

Forcing someone into doing something is already illegal. The forced person is a victim, most laws are clear about it. If the issue we are talking about is fighting against human-trafficking, the only question should be to know if legalizing prostitution would help the police find human traffickers.

And this should be the top question of the debate IMHO. I don't care much to live in a society that answers differently than me to the question "Should prostitution be legal?" but I would love to be in a society where human-trafficking does not exist.

I do have the feeling that pimps do enjoy the hypocrisy and moral ambiguity of the laws: it makes their services invaluable and their activities under the radar. But this opinion mostly comes from anecdotes and common sense. I am inclined to change opinions based on facts.
> As long as there are hormones in this world, prostitution will exist. Learn to live with it.

The presence of testosterone does not make use "learn to live" with violent acts.
It seems I have to repeat myself, but let me try again. I think you're missing the whole point of IPSAS - "real debt" isn't the absolute number owed at some point in the future. If I owe you $1B, due a zillion years from now, I'm not really in debt $1B. The only reasonable way to measure debt is based on it's market value.

That's because someone would be willing to trade that debt with me for owing about $1 a year from now. They are equivalent.
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No they are not strong indicators of income. They are indicators of skills currently in need by society at large. But go back 400 years and IQ was not the primary predictor for that and my guess is that it won't be in the future either.
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It's not nefarious, but it's clearly a money spent not optimally.
I recall reading a paper (sorry, can't find the link now) where the volume of news mentioning the company was what was relevant.

Need to measure this in terms of average volume of news for all tracked market participants, and relative to the normal volume of news for that stock.

That way, if the return has recently gone up and there is substantial volume increase its probably because of positive news.
I'd rather have the tax break. WIthout it, the person buying the sports car might just buy a different, non-hybrid model. I'd much rather encourage folks to buy them, with the hopes that they'll eventually replace all-gas models as they become more popular. At that point, we can drop the tax breaks.
Higher assurance from the start requires something functionally similar to Ada's Spark.

I've never seen that used in the wild (though I'm in the wrong domain (web) these days).
A couple of million - on most large exchanges. Prob don't want to sell it all at once
Building construction is a legal trade in Germany. There are a lot of illegal immigrants working on that trade too. Maybe the relation is more to do with the "booming" economy.

> Literally dozens of thousands of them.
Citation needed.

> increasing demand for prostitution by the order of magnitude
A whole magnitude? Citation really needed.

In Germany a john has to report to the police if he suspects the prostitute is being coerced, if there are legal women, why would he seek an illegal one and risk jail time?
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To be pedantically correct, the 2 days limit is incorrect. An upload with priority=emergency can be accepted to testing without extra delay.
I love the caveats - and yes, it is really good, and no, I neither endorse nor reject this paper either... at the very least, I'll do neither publicly :)

Seriously, a quality read.
> "prevent from occuring" is a kind of weird thing to say in this context, to put it mildly. How would that work?

Come, you know perfectly well how it works. I live (you probably do too) in a country with a functioning state, which uses its monopoly on violence and alliances with other functioning states to ensure that no foreign military forces, PMCs, militias, or even organised gangs run around killing people.

Or in blunt terms, I pay my taxes, and in exchange, there's an army/police that 1) doesn't shoot me and 2) shoots people who try. It's pretty nice, or at least, a lot better than the alternative. But Iraq does not have that, and ONE of the ways that's shown is sure, that Blackwater can run around doing terrible things with almost complete impunity, and that is, yes terrible.

But you know why that happened? Because an actually nation state military came in and shot a bunch of people with, basically, complete impunity, and continued until everyone left alive agreed that this was fine, and yes, companies like Blackwater can get away with murder. It got a ton of press coverage at the time, you probably heard of it? [0]

If you look at the situation in Iraq, and you think "man, this is great, everything is amazing, except for these PMCs, that's the only issue here!" then I think you're blind.

If Iraq was allowed to, they'd have arrested and prosecuted every accused Blackwater opperative, confiscated all in-country assets and funds, and kicked the rest out. But they're not. And it's not Blackwater that stopped them.

I find it deeply disenguous to look at the things which were done, and shrug, and then blame Blackwater, and not the people pulling the strings, paying the bills, issuing the orders, and protecting the guilty. All of whom worked for the US government, not a private company.

> Prevention, at least an attempt at it, would be people with a spine not stopping to be loud about this stuff until every last company shut down. Then you prevented these incidents.

You think any of those incidents would have been prevented if the US had to use actual soldiers instead of contractors to do their dirty work?

> I agree that international law would not stop a nation bent on conquest, it certainly doesn't stop the US. But that's quite besides the point

On the contrary, I think that is precisely the point. Stop being so naive.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Unless his kids are more like him than you and can take a bit of joking.
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Part of that is because software development is usually concerned with optimizing things for their sale value, not for being useful. In my example, a lot of problems could easily be solved with the same CRUD stack, if not for the needs concerning the design (i.e. it can't look similar to that competitor's thing) and other goals unrelated to actual use of the product.
Safety critical software is a small subset of the software that gets written in "big industry" projects.

There are hugely more systems not written to that standard.
It's the same in the UK. If you average it out, it's probably closer to 5 hours of work per day though (3 seems a bit low?).
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Maybe that's a French bias, but here we tend to consider that poor people usually have less job opportunities to choose between and that some prostitutes do this because they are out of option to make additional money.

"Have sex or starve" can be seen as a breach of consent.

Most prostitutes do not work out of a vocation or because they enjoy having sex with random people (though I guess on can find a few who do) but they do that for money. Some will think "that's so much easier and enjoyable than flipping burgers at the fastfood" and that's fine by me, but some others will think "that's the only way I can make enough money to feed my kids and pay our debts" and that's less ok.
Agreed. Still, when people alt-meds are a valid alternative to chemo the net effect is the same.
I agree. The primary thing distinguishing software development from other engineering fields is that the cost of building the product is essentially zero. Because building is what your compiler does. What a programmer does is design, and that is always influenced by the constraints of manufacturing - which, for software, are almost non-existent.
In countries like Poland prostitution is actually tax-free, because if government took any money from a prostitute it would act like a pimp, which is illegal.

Once upon a time it was the best excuse for those who had undisclosed income sources (other than prostitution). Recently tax offices started demanding proofs, like names of the clients.
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Even in the US. I doubt that's a general truth. The 4 million American developers outside of the GAFA and HN circle have nothing outstanding.

By the way, in the country I come from, they are both compensated more or equally than developers.
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Sure we do. It's called boxing, ufc, wrestling, etc.
I totally agree - we all know of the extremely irritating cold calls. However, in my own experience, if you research the person you are calling well, and follow a few rules of thumb (be genuine, aim for learning) the feedback from people is surprisingly positive! (I'd say maybe 1 out of 10 is a slightly irritated response)

Here (in Germany) it's legal to call businesses.

And also: It doesn't have to be calls - it could also be email or linkedin - and yes! also here it works if genuine.