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Right now prostitution is associated with sex trafficking because it is illegal. There is no legal way to do the world's oldest profession.

If prostitution was legal and well-regulated like it is in many countries, then workers would have to be documented, they'd get workers' rights, etc. There are people willing to do sex work of their own free will, and if you create a normal market for it, then people will not resort to illicit, lower-quality secondary markets dependent on sex trafficking.

Here's the analogy: to reduce drug violence, legalize drugs.
I just read the text of this bill. The way it reads, the entire online dating industry should be closing its doors...tonight. CEOs of these companies face penalties of up to 25 years in prison. Why were there not massive protests over this? I had never heard of this bill before today.
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This is even better.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/steve-bannon-no-reg...

“Bannon said Thursday that his interviews with Wolff were “authorized” by both the White House and outgoing communications director Hope Hicks.

Bannon called a meeting between President Trump's eldest son Donald Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" in Wolff's book.
“I haven’t seen anybody refute anything that was said in the book,” Bannon said.”
I don't have hard figures but I remember Ford UK saying that the little Fiesta cost 90% as much to build as the big Mondeo ( Fusion in the USA ) but with much less pricing potential.

They are basically loss-leaders for the brand.
The other commenters here have done a good job of examining this incident under the lens of computer vision and AI/ML automated driving.

So I would like to take a moment to remind everyone, especially pedestrians but also drivers: To ignore the road is to play russian roulette. It doesn't matter where you grew up, even if it was a place where drivers always stopped for pedestrians and were oh so polite. Even a car at a stoplight could malfunction itself or the person driving it errs... Always keep your distance and track anything heading in your direction. It is a tragedy what happened here but it begs the question, at what point of negligence do we classify risky behavior? Russian roulette is clearly suicide but crossing a street at night and not paying attention to headlights in the distance isn't? I'd say the relative risks are vastly different but the outcome similar.

What is even worse for life loving pedestrians is the fact that cars can have their headlights turned off at night(usually newer models cant but older ones can.) And then add in EV and the car is invisible and silent... Well clearly it starts to look like someone driving under these conditions is just a potential murderer. But similar scenarios are worth thinking about. Really, anyone walking the street at night should be aware of the non obvious cues of motor vehicles.
Never seen a women take of her clothes to ride bitch on a BMW.
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i suppose i have a higher bar for clicking follow. and yes, i will unfollow people who annoy me in any way. haha. so i end up having this collection of artists, designers, programmers, musicians, etc. who post interesting content. you can check out who i follow. same username as here.
This isn't true. Hunter gatherer life is nearly universally harsh and violent. I posted an article on this in the same comment thread. Modern humans are miserable, for sure, but older forms of life were not better.
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> Focusing on the commonplace is a good idea if you're worried about saying the wrong thing.

This is good advice for most situations where people might get nervous and don't automatically know what to do (e.g. meeting a stranger).
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Is the list of those who oppose shorter? Back then the Senate killed it, and I doubt they wouldn’t do so again. Given the population growth of coastal cities it would be a hard sell for a state like South Dakota to ratify.

Each party would adjust their platform as a result, so there is fundamental advantage to either that I see. It would certainly save a lot of time spent campaigning in the middle battleground states, and result in a lot more pork barrel projects in cities.
Sure, these displays are bendable. But they have a zero Gaussian curvature everywhere. What would be really interesting is to build a flat panel display that has a non-zero Gaussian curvature at will, e.g. one that fits into the windshield of a car.

There is a catch that programming these displays require one to learn differential geometry as a prerequisite.
Play dates are not just for the child. They can be a vital social activities for the parent(s), or a chance for the "visiting" parent to leave their child somewhere safe (and free) and have some time out.

Adjusting a play date is very common. Like everything to do with parenting (at the age where play dates are common), flexibility is key. Everything from timing "We will be 20 minutes late, Jane is still napping" the environment "Thanks for inviting baby Thom also, can you try to keep him on a blanket as he is allergic to grass".

No parent will begrudge a reasonable change, as the expectation is that these are reciprocal. If you host a play date, you expect to attend one - with any changes needed to accommodate your child being taken into account.

It's much more likely to be the other parents discomfort and awkwardness around the out-of-ordinary care needs of the disabled child.
I don't know why people don't use signal more. It's a much better thought out tool.
Why would one have that effect but not the other? They’re identical as far as I can see; and you even use the same distribution channels for pirating them.
While I'm not saying they should have banned one, and not the other it would have been entirely possible to say ban an opioids sales subreddit, but not the bb-gun subreddit. It would have been trivial to simply make the rule such that only illicit sales/transactions were banned. They decided to create these rules and if the rules make reddit look foolish than maybe thats because they are.
You're missing the fact that virtually no one wants to have sex with slaves. If a legal, regulated industry existed for people to get what they wanted, the illegal market would go away. AFAIK Nevada doesn't have a huge issue with sex slaves.
I read that's a rough industry.
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Is there any evidence that this is the case? That simply putting more eyes on a system will reveal its problems?

Certification etc is about process. Open source code can be used in a safety critical product, but it must audited and confirmed against the system requirements.
The singular of data is an anecdote, as they say.

> It could easily be that humans are also an order of magnitude more dangerous at night.

Given that the actual circumstances of the death (pedestrian crossing left to right in a large road with the car in the rightmost lane) was a case that autonomous cars should've been much more equipped to deal with, and the Uber clearly failed, it's not promising. Autonomous cars were supposed to be better than humans; this particular one does not seem to be, given that as a human I can pretty clearly see someone crossing from the far side of the road.
There are existing laws on the books for this. Please google negligent homicide. Licensing and certification serve a different purpose.
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I do consider the work that goes into it but I don't understand what I can do about it.

It's like encountering a person lugging an enormous cross on their back, beyond gawking at the cross and chatting about how heavy it must be I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do.
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I don't really understand a whole of similar comments. It's as if Uber and all other autonomous driving pursuer is doing so for the betterment of life for everyone and so their laziness in making sure their tech is good enough can be excused. The car in question failed spectacularly and the response is her death was not in vain?

Uber is doing this for money, so is all the other companies even if there are some potential huge collateral benefit for the human race from that. It's definitely not the goals of the companies regardless of any PR talk. So when you gamble with people's life for money and fame you should go to jail for a long time executives or engineers alike.

The statistics are just being used to sustain corporate greed in my mind and we should not let them. Self driving cars has lots of potential to save life, so are other techs. Does't mean that all sense of responsibility and ethics goes away just because of the potential.
I recommend that you subscribe to the blog of the EFF, and perhaps consider membership. They’ve been following this law in it’s various guises for quite some time, and providing tools for concerned citizens to contact their representatives effectively.

Here’s some analysis of the proposals from October 2017:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/sex-trafficking-expert...
In case you didn't know, the FBI has zero legislative power... They have absolutely nothing to do with legalization of anything, and a law enforcement branch that picks and chooses which laws it enforces is a breath away from a police state.

So, get off your high horse, leave the poor feds alone, and start leading rallies against the real bad guys in Congress.
You are confusing the moral concept of free speech with USA’s 1st amendment. The latter is only a narrow implementation of the former.
Nobody hear argued this is unconstitutional in the US.
Please read the article properly before commenting - It helps you to stop jumping to wild, crazy conclusions

It wasn't the DailyBeast conducting the investigation, they are just reporting on it
I agree wholeheartedly, and just so you know, once you get out of North America (the USA especially), it's often not like this.

There are millions and millions of people out there in their 20s and 30s who work part time and do whatever they want with the other time, because that provides "enough" money for the life they want to live.

I personally work roughly 50% time. I work a few years, then a quit and do whatever I want for a few years. Right now I'm driving around Africa, have not gone to work since mid-2015, it's fantastic.

My brother just built a house and had his first child with his wife. He works 4 days a week, looking to get down to 3. When his wife goes back to work she will work 3, maybe only two. They don't have a lot of money, but they have "enough" for the life they want and they spend a lot of time surfing, walking on the beach etc. They're both early 30s.
Brutal but true. Caring for someone with developmental challenges is a calling that not many can handle.
If the goal of this is to improve the mistreatment of women and not a thinly veiled attempt to enforce one's morals on others, then it is categorically "bad." Let's look at this another way. Say you're a sex slave who was just beat up by your pimp. Would you go to the police and admit to a decade of prostitution? Sure it may reduce the amount of prostitution going on, but for those who are in the "industry" this only makes things worse for them. All the power is now back in the hands of the pimps and gangs again.
Exactly. Right tool for the job. Ruby doesn't give you fast. That's part of its trade-off. Want web apps and scripts? Go Ruby. Want fast? Control over everything? Go native: C/C++. But also become trench into the swamp of memory leaks, stomps, corruption. Fun times.
Meanwhile, net neutrality, which wasn't even policy until the Obama administration gets huge press all over the place. What happened to Silicon Valley's political activism?
I thought the speed limit was 35mph, but the article claims 40mph.
Ordinary people wanting an alternative, would, I imagine, change all three.
Tracked to a specific office in their HQ... by an external IP address... lol, ok.
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> They got them on rather routine political corruption charges, which you can probably get half of DC for

This is false.

How many members of Clinton and Bush's campaign staff or senior national security staff were ever accused of collusion with or corruption involving hostile/iffy foreign governments? Because there's nothing comparable to NSA Flynn plotting to execute an extraordinary rendition on US soil on behalf of a foreign power (Turkey), or campaign manager Manafort indicted for financial crimes involving hiding money received from a foreign government under active sanctions, or deputy campaign manager pleading guilty to similar charges.

> absolutely nothing to do with colluding with Russia to rig the election

Reminder: Paul Manafort was indicated for being a paid agent of and conspiring with the Russian government and 13 Russian nationals have been indicted for interfering with the 2016 elections.

The closest you get to this is Iran-Contra in 1987 and the rumored 1980 "October Surprise", where George HW Bush -- allegedly -- negotiated with Iran to delay releasing American hostages until after Reagan defeated Carter. (They were released on Inauguration day 1981.) However, I would argue that nothing in modern US history comes close to this. No American president has been credibly accused or even remotely tied to foreign government attempts to manipulate the US electorate the way the Trump campaign and White House have been.
I'm sure you found these too, but your comment made me want to refresh my memory:

For older kernels, there is a ftrace way for tracing retransmits: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-06/linux-ftrace-tcp...

The oldest are SNMP style counters used by "netstat -s" / "sar -n ETCP" for all retransmits on the system, if you don't need per flow stats.

Ten there's an application level getsockopt TCP_INFO, detailed at: https://linuxgazette.net/136/pfeiffer.html
It's slightly different though. Even if FDA was lax, the participants would be volunteers. This victim though didn't have any say in joining Uber's trial.
Work seems to be largely disconnected from actual results or goals, and appears to be straying further into the abstract.

In the past work and exercise were nearly identical, now work looks something like sitting in a desk all day under fluorescent light.

Nutrition was once a result of simply eating what was available, but now has changed to a daily fight, something that requires constant effort and discipline in order to maintain as we are completely bombarded by those that seek to exploit our instinctive responses.

We've traded these and other things for safety, comfort, and reproductive success.
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Right. Oh! Except for 25 years in prison.
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The gazelle is not self-conscious about it's life, and whether it's muscles are beautiful or not. It will never sense the beauty of what you're describing - from it's point of view, it will just feel fear, pain, then die.

Perhaps a higher-dimensional being would also see some beauty in our life that we cannot comprehend currently - like the gazelle can't comprehend it's Olympic flow, a human can't comprehend the long-term beauty of how they toil and work against the odds.

> whose life is better?
If by better you mean, which being feels more emotion/happiness/satisfaction, it's an open question. But if better implies more progress and safety/longevity, then humans it is.
What makes you believe that tossing problem in the market will not help find a solution for lesser than what you are demanding?

I've had people quote me millions for fixing some key architecture issues which I later solved by paying a few thousands.

Most people underestimate what market can offer.
I hired software engineers at a big company in Silicon Valley for many years. I interviewed thousands at university career fairs. I hired dozens of summer interns and full-time people.

My take on a master's degree is that I treat it like a year or two of experience: experience that the poor fool didn't get paid for. Of course, a person with an MS is going to be a stronger candidate than one with just a BS, since they've had more experience. But I can take the engineer with the BS and give him the year of experience myself.

Perhaps it's different in Europe: they seem to value high education credentials more. I didn't care about the status of an MS and neither did most of my colleagues.

I think the only reason to do an MS in the USA is if you're a foreigner trying to get residency through an H1B visa. There's a separate quota category for people with an MS degree earned in the USA.
Completely agree. Even the simple act of noticing people rather than ignoring as if they’re not entities is so important. Dont feel bad about looking at people who are different if you see someone disabled just look at them. that’s very human. In The good way.

Have some empathy. This person has been like this for far longer then you just walking by them. They’re so into how they are they got over the embarrassment of being themselves along time ago. You presuming they be embarrassed to be seen is putting onto them some feeling you don’t know they have. You’re probably just projecting your own embarrassment. But just look at them.

If you need another reason consider that after the second world war men who were really messed up physically simply would never go outside. They didn’t want to be seen. If someone’s outside don’t assume they too embarrassed to be seen. Don’t feel bad about looking just look.
I've recently got back into retro gaming, having somewhat tired of the cost and constant updates to modern titles, and looked into picking up a Vectrex because I never had one as a kid: working examples are now going for £900+ in the UK so I dropped the idea.

EDIT: Having said that, I just checked eBay again, and it seems like availability is up and prices are down. A bunch of auctions under £100, and some Buy It Nows for around £200. Hmm.
Clojure was fun overall. The not so fun part was integrating with necessary Java libraries with crazy/stereotypical abstraction patterns. Necessary because Clojure library offering isn't rich; not to knock on all the beautiful open source work that's out there.
finding freelance work is easy, depends how much and what kind of work you want to do. fiver to upwork & freelance...
but you will miss exploring new stuff.
but side project will turn you into a machine, if you don't find something interesting or aligning with your interests. Must charge more than normal day time.
I do it just for fun and don't charge much but i only do it to buy stuff online as my bank account doesn't support buying books, games & apps online. (i don't take more than an hour work)
If we regulate it and tax pesticides, then in a global market system, wouldn't those areas fail to compete with other countries that don't have those regulations?
Also, and directly related to your Prohibition comment, and to war on drugs - it's a matter of economics. Supply and demand. There is strong demand that you can't really eliminate. If you keep supply illegal, then supply becomes handled by organized crime, and all proceeds from the sale of goods/services go into growing organized crime.
Spencer Ackerman is a stellar reporter with over 15 years experience writing for TNR, Wired, and The Guardian. He's gotten a huge of scoops on the national security beat throughout the years and none of his reporting has ever been called into question.
That's strangely worded headline. "Not viable until 2020"? I see it more as "as soon as 2020." Do people not realize that's like 2 years away?

If we can start mass production of electric cars by then, that'd be amazing
This is an extraordinarily broad action to take in response to sex trafficking. It clearly reaches into all kinds of unintended areas.
This could be an excellent use of the Presidential veto. Whatever your political leanings, omnibus bills are a terrible outcome of the false left right paradigm. Everybody gets to toss in the stuff they "want" to support but know their constituents do not.

EFF: You wrote pages about it, but failed to mention the president still needs to sign it. It's a pretty glaring omission...
The dark, unspoken sentiment behind such comments is: "the end justifies the means". These programmers treat lives as currency for their vision of the future.
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What a well-written article.
I'm someone who works a lot of overtime, and yet no manager has ever asked me to work overtime. The reason for putting these rules in place is because for some people (myself included) working overtime is something that they do habitually -- even when they shouldn't.

Now that's not to say that my managers are not complicit in that. Working as a programmer, I find there is not much time pressure during the day (unless you break your server), but you have this long term stress where you are thinking, "I need to get X,Y, and Z done by <some date>". Often those deadlines are even self imposed. In fact, it is a normal underhanded trick to get programmers to estimate and commit to dates knowing that they are overwhelmingly optimistic. But the fact remains that in general we walk willingly into those long hours.

I've also worked at a high school in Japan and while the stress is different, the results are the same. I used to hate national holidays because I knew that my workload wouldn't change. It just meant that I had one day less to get my work done, which is basically a whole lot more stress during the week in exchange for some random, government imposed "day off". I take my "day off" and my students get a crap class later that week (or if I'm really organised, two weeks later). I feel bad because I want every single one of my classes to rock.

But to get to the point, if someone said that I had to turn off my computer at some government imposed time of the day, you're damn right I'd want an exception -- because otherwise there will be weeks where I won't get my work done. I will feel bad because I want to get my work done and I hate the idea of screwing over the customer because, "Well, not my fault! I have to go home".

Of course, you are perfectly correct to say that there is something very broken in that equation. You are wrong to assume that it's the evil manager to is squashing everybody under their thumb. I've had some right asses as managers before, but the vast majority have been wonderful, caring, people who have exactly the same illness I do.

That's why you mandate going home time, despite how much someone complains.
How is this affected by Telegram losing the keys to the Russian government?
Except Trump probably supports the CLOUD Act.
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No credible evidence of either of those theories have ever been put forward. Meanwhile we have George Papadopoulos pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his involvement in a Trump-Russia conspiracy.

If anything this whole event should prove how hard it is to really pull off this kind of shady conspiracy without leaving a real trail of evidence, something the 9/11 truthers, the moon landing loons, or the false flag school shooting assholes have never been able to find because it's not there.
It increases your chances in a competitive system. It's good, not "okay, I guess".
I don't ever see P9 getting price-competitive with x86 or ARM.
Doesn't it seem likely that an alternative will pop up which is outside the jurisdiction of FOSTA which may or may not cooperate with USA law enforcement as well?
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