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> That popularity also brought with it additional scrutiny, and OnlyFans is positioning itself more as a forum for musicians, fitness instructors and chefs than sex workers. While many of its most-popular creators post videos of themselves engaging in sexual behavior, several mainstream celebrities like Bella Thorne, Cardi B and Tyga have also set up accounts.
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Meanwhile, as a born-and-raised ruralite now living in a city, I'm much more bothered by upstairs neighbors and loud car noises at night than I ever was by livestock noises - only possible exception being the time I tried raising pygmy goats for 4H, but that was more a "what the fuck y'all want now?" kind of annoyance than them actually keeping me awake.

I guess if you're used to one sort of noise, any other sort of noise will feel more alien.
I'm curious, what fraction of their material, income is nudes (still allowed) and what fraction is sexually explicit?
Why not lol
Khan has only held the chair for two months. FTC has had other priorities in the past, but given her publishing history it's a good bet that Amazon is now under scrutiny as well.
I had a friend who ran a “sexually explicit” site you’ve heard of. He was paying north of 25% to payment processors (compare to less than .2% restaurants pay…though his margins were much bigger).

The payment processors take this attitude because that way they can tell congress they are “doing something about vice”, and in exchange not be subject to undesired regulations.

I suspect this kind of soft pressure is being applied to Apple in the background. Everyone remembers what happened to Joe Nacchio, and resisting such pressure is harder now than it was over the last four years.
Full title of article: US healthcare org sends data breach warning to 1.4m patients following ransomware attack
And this is typically offset by maintaining a rolling-reserve too. Any merchant doing over 200K in transactions is considered high risk.
Very timely post, this is roughly how the recent $611M poly network hack worked. [1]

In the attack there were two contracts: the first is a proxy contract which forwards commands (allowing actors from other chains to interact with Poly. The second contract is a big pile of money which is very careful about who is allowed to interact with that money. Only "owner"s are allowed to take privileged actions. You might already see where this is going: the proxy contract is an owner.

There was some validation in place to prevent the obvious from happening, which makes this attack not exactly like what Rachel describes, but there was little enough validation that it's not uncharitable to say the hacker simply asked for all the money (root) and the smart contract happily complied.

[1] https://www.rekt.news/polynetwork-rekt/
The comment you linked to doesn’t address the point I made.

My point was that you can spend your cash wherever you want, in whatever way the seller will accept.

My point was not that sellers ought to be forced to accept bags of pennies.
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=poland%20anti-lgbt

but actually this is a good starting point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Poland
What they would be reviewing would be scaled version of the specific photos that triggered the hash alert. It’s not a broad fishing expedition. There is no mechanism to start browsing the photos on your phone.
I'm not sure if that would have any effect at all. I put money into Coinbase and pull it out of Coinbase with a bank account. Buying crypto with a credit card isn't a great idea.
It’s not that special. Other adult sites and shadier stuff push crypto or only do crypto
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Someone else will replicate of
Not paying does not absolve you of your contractual obligations though.

I had a service that I just stopped paying for once, assuming that they'd cancel my account when the money stopped coming. False - they kept billing me then sold my "debt" to a debt-collection firm who called me at work etc.
Depends on how much data they have on each person but typically adding variables that can be mostly inferred still usually improve model behavior by a little bit overall.
I don't work in/for a country where slave labor is accepted.
Do you?
Well put and proviso[d]. I cannot quote the page, but Hayak in Road to Serfdom himself endorses government handling of [health insurance or care]. "Many people don't know their own scriptures."
> The changes are needed because of mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers, according to the company.

What's their argument here, is there a law being broken or is the pressure motivated by ethics or something else?
Hate to break it to you, but all these processors that are facilitating crypto are actively policing what you do with it. They will restrict you or kick you off their platform for using crypto for things they don't want you to use it for.
Crypto will eventually democratize business transactions but it will take some time and it will not be without increased fraud.
Well, to be frank, there's precedent for why presidents won't be like Kennedy.
The issue is sex trafficking not money laundering here.
How is the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran--that resulted in the removal of one monarch in favor of the next-in-line, the continuation of the territorial integrity of Iran, and did not result in any significant changes in the internal political structure of Iran--a complete break in the general continuity of Iran's political existence that renders Iran nothing more than a 20th century Russian/British creation, whereas the 1979 Iranian Revolution--which did many of those things (except for effecting the borders)--is not?

The historical fact is that an Iranian state composed predominantly of Iranian peoples and ruled by Iranians has existed for 2 and a half millennia. And honestly, rather like China, even when Iranians are being ruled by non-Iranians, Iranian culture is still a prestige culture, especially in the Abbasid caliphate. The Iranian nation-state cannot be a mere product of British/Russian influence when it predates the existence of either of those nations (not even countries, nations), and the British and the Russians played no part in effecting the creation of said nation-state, at best merely temporarily disestablishing it.

And this is why I said "more or less continuously." I'm not denying that there are disruptions to continuity--were I to do so, I would not need to modify "continuous." Instead, I'm denying that those disruptions actually matter for the political analysis.
In fact, I'd argue that the collision rate per image pair is overestimating the collision rate. It's the flip side of the birthday paradox. We don't care that any two images have the same hash, we care about any image having the same hash as one in the set that we're testing against.
wow! How did he manage it?
10X engineer with good social/communication skills?
That has nothing at all to do with payment processing.
I remember PH having the same issue. Do payment processors take on liability for facilitating sexual content that is illegal in some way? Is it a PR thing? Is mastercard owned by the Holy See? What's the deal?
Solar panels evenly distributed in landfills are not the threat you’re looking for. Not a good place for wells either.
Coinbase, Venmo, and others are not enabling censorship resistant crypto payments. Coinbase does track who and where you send your crypto to, so in theory they can control what you do with it. The workaround would be to send your crypto to wallets not associated with them, even still.
So your argument boils down to since Apple can already install software without us knowing, we shouldn't worry about a new client-side system that makes it substantially easier for nation states to abuse? I don't find that argument the least bit compelling.
Bella Thorne was only there for explicit stuff.

Not sure about the other celebs.
If bitcoin didnt get banned over drugs and murder-for-hire schemes, i cant imagine porn will be the tipping point.
It's about handling those error cases or failing the build, rather than getting a null pointer exception at runtime that moves execution to some higher part that has no context and little ability to correct the problem, or just crashes. You can still handle it wrong, but you are forced to handle it rather than just, in your example, charging the card and crashing the thread when updating the database that you charged them.
Their FAQ is still showing that they offer credit card payments via Probiller, but clicking onwards does indeed show them temporarily not accepting credit card payments, defaulting to a SEPA transfer instead.
I do this for lifting, which I find unbelievably boring. It’s shocking how effective it is, I look more muscular than back when I had the discipline for 3x 40 minute workouts.
> possible EU fines

Until the EU makes it a legal requirement. Which they're getting close to
Surely that depends on the staffing costs versus the overall costs (interest/financing cost I would be the largest cost?).

If staffing costs are 5% of of marginal costs, then making them 10% is fine if your residual income/profit is high enough.

I suspect you put a fab in Asia because you get higher profitability, not necessarily because you wouldn’t make a profit at all in the US.

Can anyone comment on what percentage of costs for say TSMC go on staffing?
Do you want developers that are passionate about their work or do you want compliant drones that will only ever do the bare minimum for you and blindly follow the directions laid out by management, even when they know it will be a disaster? I see a lot of companies where management just keep pushing their employees to get a month's work done in a few days, cutting corners and creating issues because nothing is properly thought out or tested.

It's called "development" not "Bam, it's done!" The best companies allow proper time for the development process to take place and have a proper team structure. Companies where everything is discussed as a team and you succeed and fail as a team. Proper agile teams which communicate at every step, with developers, testers, a scrum master, a business owner and a manager.

If you don't have that, you're basically not a proper development team, you're more of a startup that can't afford a proper development team. Nothing wrong with startups, but if you are a startup then you have to deal with your own weaknesses and shortcomings and take your failures on the chin.
I highly doubt they are going through CCBill. They are too expensive at volume. Since they are only charging models 20% I suspect they tried to pretend to not be adult, which they probably weren't in the beginning. But not it is almost all adult and CC processors know that and want their higher cut.
Hi Brandon, earlier this year, I wrote an interpreting (interactive) parser in JavaScript. The code is embedded in the page https://fransfaase.github.io/ParserWorkshop/Online_inter_par... . I have not yet made a library out of it. Maybe you can have a look at it.
Yeah - the problem is now zoom is a skill you basically need - if you can't use a computer / zoom, it can be hard to make the remote work thing work.

It's also not that difficult to click in and to the test audio / test video features. I still do that (sometimes just to check a virtual background etc).

So yeah, if you are going to always be saying it's too hard or you can't get into zoom (ie, for "security" reasons) that may be a dealbreaker.
You literally said "abolish the state", of which there are only a few examples in this world (maybe only one) and they all suck. The empirical evidence for your deeply held belief that life is better without any centralized planning is non-existent, and actually even opposite to your stated beliefs.
This bring me some fond memories from my childhood. My family had a 386SX-33 (an AMD clone). One of my best friend a 286 (Intel). He always told me that my computer feel slugish to him. Decades later at college I finally understood why :D
Could you please follow the site guidelines? You broke them badly in this thread, producing (and feeding) a dumb, tedious flamewar.

Note these, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

We've had to ask you about this more than once before. That's not cool. Eventually we ban such accounts, and I don't want to ban you. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
That's correct. It wasn't just CSAM. The described images were sickening.
Adult content usually has a high charge back rate. “What? How did this get here? My card must’ve been stolen” when the spouse sees the statement.
As always, furries do it better (even when they're poking fun)

https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1428445312511795201
But most coins are public ledger. And the "know your customer" exchanges are not allowing privacy protecting coins.
Are you surprised folk agree with things that fit their morals and disagree with ones that don't? Gab was being used to promote hate, violence, and misinformation. Onlyfans is not those things.

This feels akin to saying something like, "Oh, you were onboard when the government criminalized murder, how do you feel now that they're criminalizing weed?!"
> wouldn't you love to be the developer who gets assigned the feature

Also, they'd probably not use a Cupertino developer. I'm sure a dev in a nation with a lot less rights is easier for this sort of work. Find a nation where the protections for employees are worse and good jobs harder to find.
Sadly I know girls who are using OnlyFans to keep a roof over their heads and stay out of abusive relationships. Whether we like what they're doing to make money OnlyFans was providing them a much-needed revenue stream. Now that's being taken away from them by the morality police who won't be affected by the consequences of their own decisions.
L O fucking L. That's literally what it's for.
You had (still have?) the same issue with marijuana businesses. Not easy to open a bank account for a marijuana business.
Most likely it's about FOSTA-SESTA in the United States which exempts you from Section 230.
And presumably, at some point even if it makes it to a trial, the accused would be able to point to the flagged images to show that they aren't actually child porn.

And a country in which this isn't possible, is likely one that is going to ruin people's lives just fine without Apple.
These are both great tips, thank you!
Signs that you're a bad, good, and fantastic programmer
> simply because the reputation OnlyFans has

Lol. Watching a musician on OF and your friend looks over your shoulder.
> I know there are people who consider it important to raise the profile of prominent women because of perceptions of bias like this. This could be a self-perpetuating cycle if that initiative results in creating more profiles of women of borderline notability, you would expect people following a uniform standard to be more likely to nominate women's articles for deletion.

It's also demoralizing for women/minorities.

When you lower the bar for achievements for some groups it paints them as less capable than others.
Nah, the consensus online seems to be that Apple hires naive, inept script kiddies and that any rando on GitHub can prove without question that Apple’s solution is flawed.
From a public health standpoint it makes more sense to have two hospitals with 100 beds at 90% capacity than one hospital with 300 beds at 60% capacity. It's leads to better patient outcomes to have the hospital staff work overtime compared to rapidly hiring and training new staff whilst the hospital is being overrun.
Does coinbase even take credit cards?

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/add-a-...
> They’ll still be allowed to put up nude photos and videos, provided they’re consistent with OnlyFans’ policy, the company said Thursday.
I'm not sure it's just lustly pleasure. It might be in the public best interest to know who are these people committing crime. E.g. are they skinheads or hipsters?

In the UK (AFAIK) law enforcement (and probably even newspapers) are not allowed to share photos (or any personal details) until people are prosecuted.

And after people are prosecuted, I wouldn't call prosecuted people "victimized".

Don't know how it works in the US though.
This really rings true for me, as a PM. Lots of PMs aren’t able to walk that line of “listen to feedback / don’t obsess over EVERY piece of feedback”.
> I’d be interested if anyone who opposes the payment processors pressuring OnlyFans but supported the actions taken against Gab could explain how they reconcile the two positions.

I think most people would reconcile them fairly easily. Do you think there’s a surprising answer to be had here?
What type of fraud? It seems to me that it would make it basically impossible to defraud a merchant with a stolen payment method (much like cash). Do you mean merchants defrauding their customers?
Most people's early mobile plans were very limited, the person receiving the call paid for it in the US, and costs were even higher for calls that weren't from your immediate local area. And, as you say, junk landline calls were becoming a bigger deal.

This old article https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2001/06/why-isn-t-there-... claims that the wireless carriers didn't want to put out a directory because consumers would be upset if they had to pay for junk calls.
I think you and @toomuchtodo are talking about different things.

Laws, democratic or otherwise, can indeed constrain what payment providers will allow themselves to be used for.

Public opinion short of law should not be able to add further constraints.

IMO the question of “what should Visa and MasterCard be allowed to restrict?” is the same category of question as “what category of app should Apple and Google be allowed to restrict?”
One provided a shelter for incitement to violence, culminating in an attack on the US Capitol.

The other one is naked people.

It's the difference between suing someone because they yelled "fire!" in a crowded adult theatre and being an actor on the stage of that theatre.
We really need an alternative to big payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe, etc. Moving money around is so fundamental to basic living that it shouldn't be solely possible through duopolies or oligopolies, and it is morally and ethically unacceptable that these companies seek to impost their own morals and politics upon others who are voluntarily transacting with each other. We've known this was a problem for a LONG time now, going back to when the credit card companies colluded to institute a payment blockade against Wikileaks over 10 years ago (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...). I'm disappointed we aren't in a better place yet. We need renewed antitrust legislation to take control of big tech and payment processors. They are as influential as governments, and cannot be allowed to discriminate, just like your water utility cannot discriminate against you based on your personal life or politics.
Are you familiar with the ugly history of literacy tests being used to disenfranchise Black voters? Let's not repeat that kind of discrimination.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/democracy-exhibition/vote-voi...
Having worked as an adult programmer, they are really far behind technology trends. You're lucky if they use version control and staging servers.
Maybe, but it probably stretches farther back than that, maybe even to before sliced bread or cool beans. Ten years before The Hitchhiker's Guide there was a robot, HAL, who woudn't open the airlock for a particular astronaut.
Developing WebRTC: How to change the browser
You are one underpaid random guy in India looking at CSAM all day clicking the wrong button away from a raid of your home and the end of your life as you know it.
Why are they shooting themselves in the foot?

Wasn't (soft) porn their business model?
How do you open a grid with 6 files using keyboard only in your IDE? I assume it's possible.
The fact that OF is not all in on crypto payments is a massive indictment of crypto as a payment mechanism.
Like paying for abortions or gay weddings in certain states? Buying cannabis from somebody on the street instead of somebody in a store 6 months later? Promoting unions depending on the decade? Letting “trespassing” black people buy coffee in shops that banned them in the 60s? Making breaking the law impossible is dangerous
My company does for training. In this case though they would be targeting someone who is taking action to be bad, as opposed to someone who might make a mistake.

Ask a lawyer what is legal.
and possibly FOSTA-SESTA too
It takes quite a bit of energy to pump water, ship it in containers, or desalinate seawater. At some point I think maybe that becomes just as relevant as the cost of each in currency terms when you're trying to provide for a sovereign nation's people.
Sustainably? Or will they replicate, survive for a while, get to a critical mass, and then get nuked from orbit by Visa?
This is my favourite take on this, honestly.
Knife-wielding man chases couple in San Francisco
Contributing to each and every open source project is different in practice, based on the community, technologies, practices and etiquette. I thought this was a good engineering perspective on how development contributions are made for WebRTC.

(sourced from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210858; credit due MattJ100)
Hi Andrea. Sorry that I didn’t post before. I thought our HN crowd was much smarter than anyone on this issue.

Two things: there needs to be a photo online, even something as simple “no photo for this person exists”.

Take this opportunity to put out an artwork. Something that takes your silhouette and paints in colors going across. With facial features changed to emphasize the subjects you write about. Make this the cover of your book or something. Put it up on Amazon profile.

I don’t know why this was not mentioned before. Ridiculous!
I once wrote something similar on a jsfiddle but can't find it now. Later in I found an article and a YouTube video that proposed a different approach to do ripples, which I followed:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/rippleEffect
I wouldn’t have expected a need for a “gendered” debit card - it’s pretty crazy that young women are so disproportionately “behind” in building their credit. I will admit I fell in that category a few years ago (didn’t get a credit card until a few months before I graduated college) and I’m still regretting waiting so long to start building credit. I hope you can help other young women not make my mistake!
I was told by a palliative care nurse years ago, the number one regret people have at death was:

I spent too much time at work.

(This was in a very wealthy county.)
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They can simply charge more based on a mathematically provable risk of fraud/chargebacks. We can regulate that to make it fair/transparent, and also regulate that payment processors must not discriminate against any activity that is legal.
It’s amazing how a company like Facebook, loaded with cash and talent and influence, can develop such an uninspired and conservative version that’s basically doomed to painfully forced success at best.
…well I am not going to go through and do a full audit, but a fair bit is explicit, and realistically people are paying for the videos and not the stills.
Yes, I wanted to add emphasis to the usefulness of that, without seeming to be speaking to the parent writer.
I'm not 100% sure what you're getting at but most legal dispensaries require you to pay cash.
A plea to anyone who wants to do that, I would highly recommend running that kind of thing on the GPU! Looping through all those pixels every frame is ought to hog a lot of UI thread time otherwise, especially with big resolutions!