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Would you please stop creating accounts like this? You've created well over a hundred of them—that's egregious and abusive. We ban such accounts. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
...for how long? They just promised they would be inclusive of adult sex workers only months ago to combat the rumors which apparently were true.
most of the folks I know fund their exchange accounts via ACH and not their card
"We" are not uniform. Vast majority of people is good, and all evil in the world is done by very small share of people.
It's not different in this respect, which was my point: the reason planning works (or doesn't) in NL isn't due to deeply ingrained orderly, rule-following cultural norms at the individual level relative to the US.

I think the central thrust of the article - which I agree with - is that what works in NL works because there is political buy-in from the voting public for meaningful restrictions on the activity of real-estate developers with specific, desired outcomes.
Sure, but Apple receives far less backlash if the system is applied to all phones and under the guise of "save the children". This would allow Apple to accommodate any nation state's image scanning requirements, which guarantees their continued operation in said markets.
What "remotely taboo" subreddits were banned after making the news? The ones I recall weren't "remotely", they were "extremely". As in, sexual images of children, pictures taken of women without their knowledge, legitimate hate subreddits, ones dedicated to spreading misinformation re: COVID, etc.
I'm confident that Iran could and would completely flatten Iraq if it came to that. They are not comparable in terms of military strength.
IRS is leading the way with that. They do it by association and high probability that you own the wallet.
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I strongly disagree based on my experience consulting and the countless articles you can find about this very situation happening prior to the rise of cryptocurrency and ransomware gangs. Disgruntled employees doing shift+delete on a critical directory after missing backups or rotating encryption passwords to gibberish on their last day is very common. (or of course both and more)

For me it's not hard to believe at all that someone who is already at a low point and motivated with malicious intent would read up on such an offer and think to themselves "I can screw my boss __and__ get a cool million in etc? Just for 'accidentally' uploading some ssh keys with a misplaced wildcard?"

Even before the covid pandemic, stress in IT was high and disgruntled employees doing damage on the way out was making headlines. Search 'Disgruntled employee destroys data' on google and check the date of some of the news articles. Here's one that made US national news in 2014 about how data theft was a trend.[0]

Whether or not there's a real payout is of no consequence it seems. I'm only able to immediately find articles about such incidents in the US and the UK, but I am fairly sure it's not limited to such locations, or that outsourced IT isn't just as vulnerable.

I've written it before on HN for other reasons, but people like to talk about new laws/standards/etc, but IT doesn't have problems that need legal solutions, as an industry, IT needs to improve discipline across the board and stop letting situations where one person can be so destructive happen. Too many places still run their IT like it's the 80's/90's where one or maybe two with absolutely control over everything. This leads to burnout first of all, which is horrible, but it also creates these bad situations of unregulated control in the first place.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-warns-of-rise-in-disgruntle...
> Like paying for abortions or gay weddings in certain states?

These do not have the high rates of chargeback that adult content does.
Maybe OnlyFans talk to these guys and see if they can worm something out

https://spankchain.com/
I can understand the business reasons for cleaning up the OnlyFans brand. But I can't, for the life of me, understand why they are killing a cash cow instead of spining it off into a side business.

Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com, duplicate the whole userbase, and give a simple warning that I can find my favorite stars on another site. In time, the user bases will diverge naturally depending on interests.

Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money.
And why is this the case when a variety of cryptocurrencies are trivially available to the public.
This is why America needs to work beyond it's fascination with creditcards.

Your bank can't block shit and has to process whatever transaction you want short of the terrorist watchlist.
Instagram was growing like crazy[0]; it launched in October 2010 and by April/May 2012 it had 50 million users. So they gained 50 million users in one and a half year. There were other photo sharing apps as well at the time on the Iphone so the growth is even more impressing.

Future for them was bright but they needed more engineers and more professional management to cope with the rapid growth since they had only 13 employees at the time of proposed acquisition which eventually happened. Zuckerberg said Instagram was about to hit the wall if it wasn't Facebook because their backend wasn't good enough for millions of users but if they got more engineers and a good CTO and a good COO they could've survived and grow on their own.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Instagram-...
Kessler syndrome itself could probably be weaponized as the cheapest superweapon ever. Say you rule over a small country, under risk of invasion by a much more powerful country, that relies heavily on GPS guided missiles, aircraft and ammunition. Probably it would not be very expensive to pick a couple fat satellites at the right orbital plane, blow them with small missiles able to reach orbital altitude, and let the resulting debris scattershot start a chain reaction to take down every GPS satellite in existence, rendering low to medium Earth orbit useless for centuries as a byproduct. Those smart ammunitions would be crippled overnight, forcing the more powerful country to risk old style boots-in-the-ground invasion, with much degraded technical support.
My wife used to have meetings in New York, and for reasons that seemed adequate then we would stay at a hotel in the 50s, where the floor never seemed high enough to set away from dumpsters squealing on the street and compressors running on roofs. Once we moved to a higher floor, then thought we'd left something in the old room. The security guy who let me to look around said that as a born New Yorker he had had trouble sleeping in the quiet of an army base in the southwest.
Who archives the archive?
Property taxes are almost nonexistent in other countries normally thought of as having very high taxes (e.g. Sweden). [1]

You may be thinking in California terms where property taxes are very low because of Prop 13. I can most assure you that this is not the case in New Jersey or New York.

[1]: see point #3 -- https://www.vox.com/2016/4/8/11380356/swedish-taxes-love
No. Go to https://mobile.twitter.com/explore

It works for me.
So nobody learnt anything from whatever Tumblr pulled. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Amazing.
Not directly related to the linked content, but "N times less" never really made that much sense to me. In this case, I'm guessing "5x reduction" means "80% less"? Or "20% of the previous usage"?
Somehow there is this meme that porn sites are technically impressive due to their scale/small video playback enhancements, neglecting that they have a slightly more captive audience that will forgive small hitches than most streaming video providers.

The meme is dumb and should die imho.
So we should simply accept systems with a high potential for abuse because of the possibility that something bad is already being done?
I think I have close to opposite of not having an internal monologue, it is hard for me to turn my internal monologue into an external one. Talking takes a lot of effort and I get tired of doing it after a short while. I've conditioned myself to be able to do it well now, and I can be very articulate, but my wife and son, for instance, can just keep talking and talking and talking. I find it so bizarre.

But I can talk with myself internally for hours on end.
Yes except there's one major legal difference: selling marijuana is (for now) a federal crime and selling naked photos is not. So AML regulations do actually prohibit banks/payment processors from servicing marijuana businesses but they do not prohibit them from servicing OnlyFans.
If crypto was ever going to be useful, this is where it will do it.
or qutebrowser https://qutebrowser.org/

qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and PyQt5 and free software, licensed under the GPL.

It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
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Or that crypto is only 12 years old which is really fucking young for a currency.
A reason governments like monopolies - they centralize control. This applies to many industries: telecom, cellphones, social media, etc.
Serious question: What positive impact do you feel like you are making on the world?
Quite the opposite. Did the bare minimum to not be fired. Never took initiative. And stayed silent in all meetings unless forced to speak.

Definitely not a 10x, just a scam artist.
You're adding quite a lot of technobabble gloss to an "attack vector" that boils down to "people can send you images that are visually indistinguishable from known CSAM".

Guess what, they can already do this but worse by just sending you actual illegal images of 17.9 year olds.

While it would be bad to be subjected to such an attack, and there is a small chance it would lead to some kind of interaction with law enforcement, the outcomes you present are just scaremongering and not reasonable.
I think this makes sense, but "tricky act" and "paradox" indeed.

Free speech absolutists often argue that free speech is the only viable way to be multiculturalist (they'll cite the counter-productivity of censorship, free speech is necessary to even debate what is/isn't multiculturalism, speech codes that prohibit anti-multiculturalist speech are easily abused, etc) while many others (predominately left-wing folks, I think) argue that multiculturalism demands that advocating for any kind of multiculturalism besides their own narrow strain is anti-multiculturalist (e.g., this was the basic charge against James Damore, David Shor, Lee Fang, etc). [^1]

If we say that anti-multiculturalist speech is intolerable, then "multiculturalism" becomes a hollow word that we can use to bludgeon each other. It can even work against its own purported goals in that you can have a powerful, narrow ideological segment that censures the rest of society arbitrarily by invoking "multiculturalism" however tenuously (consider again the folks who advocate for racially segregating society in the name of multiculturalism).

Maybe this is a problem with any core value, but we just see abuses of multiculturalism more frequently because of some particularity of the present moment?

[^1]: I'm not arguing that right-wing folks are more likely to be speech absolutists than left-wing folks (although at present this may well be true due to momentary political power dynamics); rather, that right-wing folks are unlikely to argue that free-speech is the best way to achieve a multiculturalist society because (as I understand it) multiculturalism isn't a right-wing value.
> It also sounds like they're going to keep allowing softcore content.

That is such puritanical nonsense. You can show naked people rubbing together, but the moment you show a penis in a vagina, Satan comes to get you.
Used to be the case. They are far behind now. Just read the docs for CCBill. Most of adult is still PHP even for new stuff. And they usually work on the servers directly instead of using version control and staging servers. Only the really bigger adult companies adopt a modicum of modern programming practices.
There's plenty of room for some people to have got something right long before the bulk of people, as I think very much happened in this case.
That was quite the rabbit hole.
According to Wikipedia, there are not even any confirmed exomoons yet. So it's interesting that a disk was observed first, although given size/brightness that's probably not a surprising result.
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The problem is that it is a scaled low-res version. There are well publicized attacks[1] showing you can completely change the contents of the image post scaling. There's also the added problem that if the scaled down image is small, even without the attack, it's impossible to make a reasonable human judgement call (as OP points out).

The problem isn't CSAM scanning in principle. The problem is that the shift to the client & the various privacy-preserving steps Apple is attempting to make is actually making the actions taken in response to a match different in a concerning way. One big problem isn't the cases where the authorities should investigate*, but that a malicious actor can act surreptitiously and leave behind almost no footprint of the attack. Given SWATting is a real thing, imagine how it plays out if child pornography is a thing. From the authorities perspective SWATting is low incidence & not that big a deal. Very different perspective on the victim side though.

[1] https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/husky-ai-image-res...

* One could argue about the civil liberties aspect & the fact that having CSAM images is not the same as actually abusing children. However, among the general population that line of reasoning just gets you dismissed as supporting child abuse & is only starting to become acknowledged in the psychiatry community.
This only makes sense if you completely misunderstand the value of Apple as a company. You're asking for the death of Apple and it's entire ecosystem, not for an anti-trust solution.
me too! and Facebook posts, too.
Because it makes everything easier seems to be the main reason. A (mostly) crime free society where you don't even need a wallet because the buildings all know who you are isn't exactly unpleasant as fast as dystopias go. And if you already think the government could oppress you if it wanted to anyway then wanting to add gilding to the cage isn't unreasonable.
It's an interesting bit that the advice, "don't shrink yourself into a shape that fits your circumstances," is shrunk into the Taylorist literal form of a "To Do List."

I think you may be failing at the task!
If you think about what payment processors actually do, dealing with fraud is one of the main costs. There's a lot of fraud associated with porn related transactions, so it can make financial sense to just drop the entire transaction category.
To add:

Bans some forms of anime art: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-anime-porn-ban/

Banning for activity/art outside of art hosted on Patreon: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/patreon-gay-hypnosis-artists/

(articles may contain nsfw imagery)
From the comments here, it sounds like the main issue is payment processors needing to accommodate "vice laws" or something. Can someone explain why OnlyFans can't simply use non-US payment processors to get around this? My understanding is that many European countries are much less concerned with vice than the US.
I remember seeing the box for Sound Blaster 2.0 at a friends house and just looking at it felt magical at the time. And those soap box speakers powered by batteries, you just can't replicate that sound on modern systems and their fancypants speakers and soundchips.

GUS was definitely a game changer for me also, I can still remember how much cleaner and yet at the same time warmer the sounds outputted by GUS were when used correctly.

At that time these chips and cards still had their signature sounds, kinda missing this period in a way.
Very helpful video. Also mentions their sister site myfreecams. That's probably where the x-rated videos will remain. Seems like they're splitting the brand to have one NSFW and one SFW.
Curious how much work they put into this. Do they follow coinbase->private wallet->multiple payees at different times for lower amounts?
adult industry once again on the cutting edge of tech
You're taxed when you earn the money already. Taxing again at the point you deploy it is double taxation. Many countries don't tax capital gains at all because of this fact.

Moreover, you want people to deploy their capital in the economy. Hiking taxes on capital gains would massively disincentivize people. Unlike other taxes, capital deployment is a risk based economic activity: if you raise taxes, people will be less inclined to invest it on risky ventures as opposed to keeping it in very safe assets (e.g. bank accounts or real estate).
This is true, and the way things tend to work, but still short-sighted IMO. I don't think it's a good idea to design every process around the worst thing that could possibly happen. It further alienates the 99% of people who wouldn't do something like that, as well as everyone who witnesses it, to save the usually pretty mild pain from the 1% who actually do something bad.
That's fair; if the intent of the parent comment was that this doesn't go far enough, then I don't think I disagree (and certainly not for this reason).
I agree it's a ways off from a user experience point of view, but people are willing to put up with a lot of "effort" if it's something they really want. This very well could be the impetus necessary to make crypto used more broadly for payments.

With current tech this would just be a mobile wallet that holds stablecoins with some sort of built in funding mechanism.
Strike and Coinbase prohibit any use in connection with adult services in their ToS. Building/maintaining fiat onramps at scale is hard.
> Your bank can't block shit and has to process whatever transaction you want short of the terrorist watchlist.

Is that true?
Because I delight in delivering bad news, I'll point out that the real takeaway shouldn't be that federal LEOs regularly lie (though, they do) - it is that they are permitted to lie convincingly through handwavy technical means. All these tools are designed to give them permission to totally destroy your life. I'm aware of only two geewiz CSI methods that are actually founded in science: cryptography (this neural crap doesn't qualify) and DNA. Unlike fingerprints and bitemark analysis, those two tools were invented outside of law enforcement - instead of being purpose built for prosecution. Anybody doubting that should look into the history of the polygraph and its continued use in the face of evidence demonstrating how useless it is in the pursuit of truth... which begs the question: if they aren't interested in the truth, what are they doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph
Why do you prefer comma for delimiters? I found tabs are less likely to appear within the strings (so less need to quote the strings if a delimiter is found, and thus the files are smaller). And both can be typed with a single keystroke.

The only advantage I would see for commas is if you are editing the file in a text editor that doesn't highlight strings (like notepad) so it's hard to distinguish them from spaces
Problem with these sites is that how do you ensure that everything is voluntary? You might end up making money for a pimp or human trafficking group.

This is a real concern especially on the cam content. It’s quite tempting business for some pimp on low-income country to get house, few cameras and put ladies to work.

Kind of same issues with the porn in general, but I assume there’s lots of paperwork happening on background for large production companies.
And yet they all stopped processing payments for PornHub.

Please cite a source(s) for your claim, re: "banks can't block shit"
A minimalist to-do list that can be send via QR code or link to other devices
We mandate that some companies participate in the sex trade, at least to the extent that payment processors can be considered to be participating.

The electrical company is mandated to provide power to Onlyfans' datacenters, so long as they are paying for the service.

Also there's basically only four payment processors: Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex. None of them specialize in adult business. There are downstream processors along the lines of PayPal and Stripe, and some of them specialize in adult business, but they're entirely beholden to the big four.
There is no financial neutrality requirement, but perhaps there should be.

Also, that quote on the dollar has nothing to do with your argument. You seem to be projecting a layperson’s interpretation of those words instead of the relevant jurisprudence.
Income taxes account for a much higher proportion of tax revenues for the government -- like a lot lot more. Think twice as much.
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The fact that crypto isn't even a thing with these sites tells you everything you need to know about the future of crypto.

It's a speculation-bubble and a circle-jerk all in one.

It has no future in retail or p2p payments. People need the safety nets the existing payment schemes, processors, banks, and regulators provide. See "push payment fraud" in my country (UK) as an example.
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It totally is. In summer I go out on the bike for fun all the time. In winter? No way - essential trips only. And I'd say that's typical for all Dutch.
"This is all garbage" followed by "Oh, it happened to me or my loved ones and now it's not garbage" is such a classic pattern across so many controversial topics.

I wonder how we can be more open minded as a society while still keeping enough skepticism to not accept literal garbage.
> companies with an oligopoly on most of the transfer of those notes

This is an important distinction. Credit card payments are not notes. They are not cash. So these companies have very little to do with the transfer of cash.

The point of "legal tender" is that if you try to pay off a debt in cash, they can't claim you haven't paid it and take you to court. If you try to pay for your meal in a restaurant with cash and they refuse, you can just walk out and they wouldn't have a legal case (probably. in theory. not legal advice).

What's tricky is this has to be a debt, as in past tense. If you try to buy groceries with cash and they refuse, you can walk out but you can't the groceries with you.

Participation in the cash market is mandatory on anyone who is owed money. Everything else on top (credit cards, checks) is essentially voluntary. Merchants can take it or leave it, the processors can come or go.

If you want to make an argument about the outsized effect that Visa has on the US monetary system, that's totally legitimate. It just has little to do with the concept of "legal tender".
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