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>>I really wish that I could come forward with a solution to the online sex trafficking problem.

Step 1. End Prohibition of Sex Work

Step 2. Stop Diverting Police Resources to enforcing laws on what consenting Adults do on their own time (both Prostitution and Drugs)

Step 3. Stop Criminalizing Speech driving to further and further under ground were it is no longer tracable at all

The "scorched earth" groups are in no way protecting victims, in fact they are making it WORSE by driving people to more shady platforms deep deep under ground, where law enforcement will be less likely to find information or victims.
You're pushing a lot of misinformation.

COBRA covers your health insurance if you're fired, for up to 18 months or so. You do generally have to pay premiums on it.

The US has free healthcare for people without an income. If you're making the federal minimum wage, you qualify for free healthcare via Medicaid in every state (someone correct me if there's an exception).

The US has numerous government healthcare assistance programs for people that are in some kind of bad position.

Nearly half of all healthcare coverage in the US is public healthcare at this point, not employer sponsored.
Some people became "rich and powerful" because of the relatively-free internet of the 90s and 00s. Why aren't they objecting?
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Is there a button I can press to request a new connection 'today'? First connection I got today wasn't interesting to me so now I need to wait till tomorrow.
Someone just shared their heartwarming tale about how they met their spouse using craigslist personals and you have the audacity to tell them that their story is illegitimate because "back in my day" people met differently? Have some heart and recognize that their story of how they met is legitimate, cherished, and deserves protection.
>Sighted

>adjective

>(of a person) having the ability to see; not blind.

Seems that his definition of sighted is non standard. It could be a neologism on the euphemism treadmill. Example: "neurotypical" not "normal."
Some companies do use Slack but I know several examples where the introduction of Slack was prevented for compliance reasons. If these reasons are sound I cannot tell, but dismissing this argument as laughable doesn’t hold either.
1. Most folks don't think it is a complete solution, and perhaps simply not limiting prostitution to brothels is one of the expansions that would work. You can still outlaw selling from the streets and require folks be registered and working through personals and whatnot, with some safety plans in place.

2. It seems the solution for these particular folks would be to focus less on picking them up for prostitution and instead, finding them safe housing, repeatedly offering mental health care, and repeatedly offering addiction services or at least helping them find a way to avoid feeling like they are forced into prostitution. With prostitution itself being legal, it is much easier to focus on these sorts of technicalities.
So how come 50% of all bankruptcies in US are due to medical bills, while "medical bankruptcy" is literally unheard of in EU? What is that about?
Hey, I like the work that you guys are doing and have been working on similar things since last 2 years. Are you guys hiring? My personal email id is banga.kamal@gmail.com.
The truth is is that you don't need a network to land freelance gigs. Going to meetups is nice, but you can skip that step.

There are remote projects posted all the time on job boards, Slack channels, Discord, Twitter, Facebook Groups, and many other places that aren't UpWork.

I freelanced for 4 years completely remotely as a front-end developer always finding my clients in this way on various places and reaching out directly with email.

It's always about consistently reaching out to keep your freelance pipeline full, showing clients you have the technical skills by your showing previous projects in your email cover letter, and that you can be reliable by consistently emailing back quickly.

P.S. - I started https://remoteleads.io/ to solve this problem of finding remote work for myself and it turns out many others needed this too and now we're growing at a pretty consistent pace.
Aren't these just 'recruiters'?

Also, I'm not sure if a 6 month assignment counts as freelance :D I think he is looking for something to fill the hours, not a new job.
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There is John Sanford who claims random mutation is destroying our genome.

http://www.geneticentropy.org/
Maybe they just got excited to share it, I dunno.
"Modern tools are the foundation of ideation and innovation. How can you expect your employees to be nimble with their ideas, when their infrastructure is clunky? If employees aren’t allowed to use any top-notch digital products at work, how on earth should they know how to create them?" This is absolutely true and applies completely to the German work culture.
Not up-to-date tools and data silos are a huge topic in Germany and in fact all over the world. Companies use tools because they fullfil a certain, necessary task like CRM, ERP and others, but they don't care about the integration of the different systems at all. And so it turns out, that different employees in different departments use different tools - although working in the same company. We at https://zenkit.com are planning to change this, by integrating many different tools in one. With seemless switching and collaboration features, to enable employees to work together productively.
Have you ever wondered “What should I learn today?”
Bureaucratic it can be at times. Public healthcare though is very different from social support. Public healthcare is really simple compared to anything I've seen abroad, you sign up once and that's it. You only need to contact your (public) health care provider if your address changes or you marry, have children etc. At the doctor you present your health care ID, you usually don't have any interaction with your health care provider aside from that. Your monthly payment is automatically deducted from your salary (50%)/paid by your employer(50%).

There are many edge cases which _do_ get more complicated, as (public) health insurance premiums depend on your reported salary. Let's say you have different income streams from different countries, have to pay alimony but also support your parent financially.
I see no way this proposal passes.
Ignorant and unnecessary.
Find opportunities to plug what you have in places that are relevant. Every so often HN has threads where I talk about my experience with web design at www.beaver.digital, and it always lands me tons of work. I'd recommend just hanging out in internet communities that are interesting to you and that potentially have people that can hire you, like this one. I'm secretly terrible at networking, but that surprisingly has not been an issue whatsoever.
Luck is a catalyst. A lot of success stories are really stories of people getting extremely lucky if they're honest. But those stories wouldn't exist if those people hadn't been in positions where they could have taken advantage of those lucky circumstances or if they hadn't taken the right actions to do so.
Disgraceful Dashcam Video Proves Uber Is the Theranos of Self-Driving
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24 working days by law, but 30 days are common.

> § 3 Dauer des Urlaubs
> (1) Der Urlaub beträgt jährlich mindestens 24 Werktage.

https://www.arbeitsrecht.org/gesetze/burlg/

Edit: I was wrong! Working days are Monday to Saturday. If you only work 5 days per week you only have 20 days per year.
This narrative about vulture capitalists seems off. The CNN Money article first says:

> Its debt was downgraded to junk bond status in January of 2005, at a time when Amazon's sales were just 4% of their current level.

And then it says:

> A year later the company was taken private by KKR, Bain Capital and real estate firm Vornado.

The fact that their bonds were downgraded to junk a year before tells me that Toys R Us was already in trouble by the time private equity stepped in.
> How much of it goes on in America? Can we get some real data injected into this discussion about the nature and the extent of actual forced sex labor? Scorched earth tactics might be appropriate if America has developed a serious slavery problem (again), but they need to be justified with facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_the_United_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Unite...
To me it's about latency more than bandwidth. Unfortunately providers do not advertise in milliseconds. They used to for a short while to have "gamers" pay extra around 2000 I believe.
If you are making north of 100k, a two hours commute (each way) is not attractive. I would deem this a more limiting factor and is one reason I'd never would move to a company in Munich (I am living in Germany).
This seems to be somewhat analogous to the lesion studies used to try and understand real brains. Take out a piece, see how its behaviour changes, that's a clue as to what the piece does.
What do you base this claim on? It sounds more like a statement of faith.

> I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.
That's a very US centric view, especially:
'Whereas MS degrees used to be a means for departments to begin vetting future PhD students,...'

This was never the case in Europe, where if you have only a bachelor, people assume something went wrong. The target at university always was a Master's degree. The PhD, something you did for your mother, or if you wanted to pursue an academic career.
Innovation doesn't "happen" where you actually measure it, where a company gets founded, or where a patent gets registered...

It happens inside the head of a random Russian dude that studies in Germany and then moves to Zurich. Or in the head of a second generation Syrian immigrant to the U.S. People are like blood, they need to be pumped, squished, occasionally crushed etc.

Sure, the company that eventually makes profit from an innovative idea ends up being registered in a developed country, the article describing an innovative technique ends up being published while someone works for a prestigious western university etc. Switzerland is like the "fake news" of every socio-economical statistic since it's a weird "magnet country" for money and ideas from anywhere else.

> Sweden, Finland, Denmark

Agree, they do something right, though not sure what. There's genuine innovation coming from there, but I'm really not familiar with these countries. And I'd bet they're also good at extracting valiue, registering, patenting etc. Or maybe they've managed to get the same benefits of a half-broken society (basically "tons of unemployed/unsatisfactory-employed smart people" kept "motivated enough" but not beyond their "breaking points") without the "broken" part by managing to simply not "overwork the innovativeness out of smart people"? It would be awesome to know this strategy works...
Why pornhub and not vimeo or dailymotion?
Intent and actual outcome are completely different things until you manage a country. Then you gotta be 1000% goddam sure you’re coercing others for the good reasons, and your responsibility can’t be levied for an “Oops I did it again”.
Isn't that only if you opt in for the Google compression service that essentially uses the Google network as a proxy?

I had host-based anti-Adverstising on my network and Chrome never bypasses it even though it should if it were going through Google DNS as well.
A contradicting practical example is the situation with legal brothels in Turkey. The goverment wants them shut but the women working there wants them kept open, because otherwise they have no option but to go underground, and then they lose access to facilities like security and routine health controls. When some years ago the Istanbul municipality tried to shut them off the women protested: http://www.milliyet.com.tr/karakoy-de-genelevde-calisan-kadi...
I cannot find it right now, but I am quite sure that in last few weeks there was a post on HN with roughly the same statement, but for high protein diet.
>>But it is obvious to anyone who has used them that CL personals were utterly overwhelmed by people who are selling the other kind of Saas (Sex as a Service).

That is also largely the government fault because back in 2010 they more or less forced CL to close the Sections of the site that was dedicated to Adult Services... and as predicted the people that were in those sections simply moved to the personals
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Neither I nor rpearl claimed it wasn't limiting.

The intent was to protect people who are being harmed against their will (held in sex slavery against their will).

Of course the actual effect of the law is different than the intent. The actual effect is limiting.
Firstly, The entire paper is guesswork. There are no official numbers to support the fact that legalising prostitution increases the victim count. I just finished reading it and they even in the beginning state that they don’t have the data.

Secondly, I was just making a point that in these kinds of researches a % value is IMO a better measurement
The child in this article is 15, so in 2003 did we have the sophisticated tests available that are as easily applied?

Additionally, whilst testing has become better, it won't catch everything unless we look for it specifically. There are mosaic mutations that are incredibly difficult to spot and many other chromosome conditions that we are only now able to define because of our more capable tests (http://www.rarechromo.org/disorder-guides).

Finally, no one 'decides' to have a disabled child. I don't know what you actually meant to convey by your comment. Perhaps a judgement on the impossible decisions parents of children with disabilities wrestle with, perhaps a dismissal of all people with disabilities because testing means they shouldn't exist.. I can't quite understand it.
Fetch is a Web API, not an ECMAScript language feature, so TC39 doesn’t have much to do with it. They do do Promises though and Cancellation is a Stage 1 proposal [0], so it’s more than a year away from standardization at best.

WHATWG handles Fetch and their spec[1] was updated seven days ago.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/README.md
[1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org
> prevailing concept that "consent" can be revoked AFTER you have consented

No, it can't; but what does happen is people taking "she didn't complain" as evidence of consent rather than evidence of coercion into not complaining.
I think German companies are a lot more conservative when it comes to taking risk. That also goes for customers. Customers look at long evaluation periods before adopting a technology. This causes most tech companies to over engineer a solution before bringing it to market.
It really is astounding. About the wettest the atmosphere can get is a rain cloud and one several kilometres in height and several kilometres in length will drop a few millimetres of water. Yet people seriously believe that these little things will suck more water out of much less atmosphere.
We are using d3 a lot at our startup to build dashboards displaying huge amounts of data for our clients. We're just a small german startup though. But d3 has high adoption through the field of data vis.
It doesn't even need to be a fuck up. Knowing the scrutiny this hack would trigger means he could've easily left a single connection to a russian IP address as false bread crumb trail for investigators.
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So I am an expat in Germany for the past 3 years, worked in 3 companies startup, corporate and other big company who started outside of Germany. These are my 2 cents.

The digital innovation is being killed by
1) the people who hold the money.
Venture capital in Germany and in Europe (excluding London) is totally different that in the US. In Germany for your seed round they want you to show them MRR, churn, thousands of users, forget it if you are 1 founder etc. The barrier is way higher than in US.
Furthermore, only recently (2-3 years) have we seen been seed rounds in Germany but these being lead by non-german funds or by global funds that base in Germany.
The limit of funds also limits how much companies can pay.
2) the obsession with titles PhD, MD, Lead etc.
3) do things that dont scale, is literally translated into, keep getting interns till the university doesnt have any more students to copy data from excel1 to excel2.
4) the still monolithic approach of hierarchies. (The MD (CEO) of one of the companies I worked for literally said that you should listen to X person because he has been in the company longer, even though that was for 2 months.

Sorry but there is no shortage of talent. really big names in their field have grown and live in Germany but there is no way that Deutsche telekom would hire them, as their contracts are low paying, have restrictions in terms of employment and most people know that when you go in there its kind of the public sector, you wont get out.

There is a little bit of truth around the "tools" part but this is not due to law. Noone cares about the law when you are 5 man team with 10 users. The problem is that they insist on using shitty tools just because they are from another Germany company. Personio is one of them.

I hope everything I said is clear enough and doesnt cause any missconceptions.
It's really not that unlikely. I had the same experience, I've been doing a lot of hobby programming before uni. Most of what we learned I was already quite familiar with from either experience or reading books. Pretty much all of DS&A but also more theoretical things like the halting problem.
there is a rather oldish paper called 'optimal brain damage' which also explores something _similar_. iirc, it tries to get an optimal size of the network by removing unimportant weights from it.
Will you please take a break from beating your wife.
If the hardware is good enough, someone will write a JVM for it that's competitive. As the other respondent notes, IBM can do it themselves.
Your 50% number is false. That derives from a 2009 study that goosed the numbers by including some odd qualifications such as if you missed work due to illness at any point in the year you declared bankruptcy.

The numbers are bad enough to not need pushed higher artificially frankly. It's closer to 1/4 of all bankruptcies having been impacted by medical bills (2011 Northwestern study indicating 26% of all bankruptcies are partially - not solely - caused by out of pocket medical costs).

There are roughly 288 million people in the US that have health coverage.

The medical bankruptcies you're referring to affect less than 1% of the adult US population across ten years. Among that 1% are common repeat medical bankruptcies, so the number is in fact even smaller.

If you look at the total number of bankruptcies in 2016 - 770,000 - and the share of those that were entirely caused by medical bills, you're probably talking about 100,000 to 150,000 (out of ~250 million adults). The ACA, it is speculated, has improved the medical bankruptcy numbers since its 2010 passage, and the economy has improved dramatically since 2010-11.

Is it terrible? Yes it is. Did you expect me to say otherwise? However it does in fact affect a small portion of the US population. It's obvious that if you could pick a few things to change about the US financial system, one would be to be able to more easily discharge medical debts.
ACTUALLY, in many US states it's not just wise, but it is the law that if a vehicle is stopped in an adjacent lane you MUST either move to a further lane (if you can do so safely in time) or else at least slow down.

This is because stopped vehicles often have people come out of them to fix the vehicle, and too many cops, tow operators, etc, were getting killed by careless motorists.

Guess this is news to you (and uber), update your driving style please for the sake of first responders!
I'm pretty sure that the major Datacenter operators run quantitative analyses on all possible candidate chips. There aren't that many.
20 days by law, but most that I know are working in IT and me as well get 25 - 30
Because it would result in too many false positives, which could be just as bad as not stopping.

For example, unnecessarily stopping in a middle of a highway is extremely dangerous, especially if visibility is limited or roads are slippery.
The semantic versioning model just says how you should update your version if you break compatibility, not that you can't avoid breaking compatibility.

In fact, they suggest the opposite: "Before you completely remove the functionality in a new major release there should be at least one minor release that contains the deprecation so that users can smoothly transition to the new API."

https://semver.org/#how-should-i-handle-deprecating-function...
Depends. Some companies are rather paranoid about privacy issues and using services like Slack or GMail is a clear liability risk, especially when discussing customer data or confidential information. I'm not sure what the GDPR has to say about this but my understanding is that some privacy experts consider services like Slack problematic.

However this depends on the scale and type of company. In practice many smaller companies don't even have a Betriebsrat despite fitting the requirements. I'm also sure not everyone is aware of the details of legal requirements around privacy if it isn't the core of their business and some are even blatantly unaware of basic labor rights.
"Move fast and break things. Also break people, but if they're homeless or ride bicycles nobody cares"
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

This is by far the best networking book I have read.
Based on Top-Down approach rather than explaining us the concept.
> (although at the moment I'm still using Firefox 56)

There are unpatched security holes in Firefox 56. If you're really mad about the extensions change, downgrade to Firefox 52 ESR.

Running Firefox 56 and worrying about the security of your DNS data is a nonsensical threat model.
Good news for science in spending bill
What's your point exactly? The Quora poster's argument is just a rehash of the OP and also can be restated symmetricly for over speeding as for underspeeding and thus adds nothing here.

It also fails to address my point about kinetic energy, which is proportional to the square of speed!
It's directly linked to:

- ability, willingness, etc to tweak and upgrade your infrastructure

- how competition-friendly and pro-consumer your market is
- the type of grants, contracts and industry ties your environment has (think special, prototype, maybe even government subsidized hardware, for example)

- reflects the amount of mastery over geography or nature itself - this is what successful countries pull

- is the economy market-driven or just a pocket bubble?

There might be others, but this is already quite damning imo. Also I need gigabit because that determines the size of my erection and i'd go to lengths such as paying FAIR prices for it.
Linked FTA:

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2017/08/how-section-23...
I'm not saying this is one of those stories, but Pornhub does a lot of PR stunts that exist just to get their name in the news. And since we live in the clickbait economy, outlets will gladly go along with it.
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Where are you going?

Where can Internet refugees go?
Ever heard of an elevated highway, ramp, flying junction, bridge, or tunnel?

I mean, yeah the topology is not as complex as a pure unrestricted 3d space but it's also more complex than pure 2d space. It's a search through a space, and it's complex, I don't know if nitpicking about the topology adds a lot here?
Why the new Java 10 features list is so small