The solicitation is public because it is illegal, and therefore normal channels of advertising (on-line, phone book, etc.) are not available. There are jurisdictions, including Britain, where prostitution is legal, but public solicitation is not. Most transactions are arranged on-line, where it is nearly invisible to anyone who doesn't seek it out.
... with pimps who beat them if they don't hustle enough.
In the book Superfreakonomics the authors conducted a study of prostitutes and pimps, and found that the women who worked with pimps were paid better and were less likely to be victims of violence. Some pimps had waiting lists of freelance prostitutes that wanted to join their teams, to benefit from the better working conditions. The authors found that pimps rarely used violence against their own prostitutes.
2. Prostitution is *heavily* associated with human trafficking
Illegal prostitution is associated with human trafficking. This is a an argument for legalization. Anyway, "human trafficking" is a far smaller problem than commonly believed. It has been wildly exaggerated by law enforcement as an excuse to increase their funding.
... a girl being forced to sell her body, rather than wanting to. This is the reason that really matters.
Again, this is something that is worsened by criminalization. The best cure for coercive prostitution is legalization and regulation.
Our country is too fond of market-based solutions to matters like this.
America's market based solutions provide the medical breakthroughs that benefit the whole world. Profit driven research has a far better track record than the alternative.
we will convince ourselves that it is for the better.
Many of us are already convinced it is for the better. Genetic diseases can be devastating, and financially ruinous. How can curing them not be "for the better"? If we can also make kids smarter, that is good too. Sure, there may be an occasional error, but we already get those from cosmic rays, and we live with it.
it will force even more scientists away from ethically sound research and into profit-driven work instead
Profits are not unethical. They are what allows economies to grow, living standards to rise, and the human condition to improve. If you think profit-driven markets are bad, go visit a country without them.
You understand that it is an NGO thing, right? No government involved. No repression.
You understand that it is an NGO that lobbies the government to be more repressive? From the summary: "Brazil has laws prohibiting racial abuse, but this group doesn't think the government is doing enough to stop it."
Unlikely. Lithium is only a small fraction of the cost of lithium batteries, so switching to sodium won't save much, and sodium is much heavier and has lower power density (by mass or volume). A sodium battery may make sense for static applications where neither weight nor power density matter, but electric car batteries will continue to be based on lithium.
Neither Sweden nor Finland is socialist. They are both capitalist countries, and in many ways are more capitalist than America. For instance, in Sweden, the postal service is run by a private company (which also delivers mail in Denmark), and the primary education system is partly privatized, with vouchers available to all, and used by about 10% of students to attend privately run schools.
Who is going to hire someone out of prison with a record as a programmer.
Pro-tip: If you don't want a them to know you were in prison, then don't put it on your resume. Many companies don't do background checks, and often they don't do any fact checking at all. According to The Economist, a criminal record is not correlated with poor job performance for many jobs. You are better off filtering out people that use MSIE to complete their job application, or that write in all single case (either upper or lower). Those are both correlated with poor performance.
It is tough to get hired as a gardener with a record.
At what point do people need to take responsibility for their actions or words?
For actions, it is when they cause specific identifiable harm to other individuals. For words, it is when they are a clear and credible threat to a specific individual, or a clear and immediate danger to other people (shouting fire in a theater). Otherwise people should be free to do most things, and free to say anything, including things that are offensive.
This campaign is shameful. Brazilians should be fighting to end censorship of opinions, not trying to get their government to be more repressive.
First they would need a business permit in order to be contractors. They can not be supervised by Uber in any way, And they would need a written contract
None of these are specific requirements to be an independent contractor. The IRS has a list of 20 criteria for classification as a contractor. No single criteria is either necessary or sufficient.
That does not make them morally equivalent. Israel has far more power, and has far more options. Their violence is state-sanctioned, while most Palestinian violence is perpetrated by individuals. But most importantly, as an American, I object to Israel's violence because it is done, in part, with my tax dollars, in the form of military aid and loan guarantees.
They chose one of the more expensive commercially available battery technologies for their flow battery?
No. It is not more expensive, it is cheaper. Most existing flow batteries are vanadium redox. Vanadium is about $40/kg. Lithium costs about double that, but it has much higher energy density, so it is cheaper per unit of energy stored.
It prohibits the militarization and/or colonization of space.
The Outer Space Treaty does neither of these things. It prohibits offensive nuclear weapons in space, but does not prohibit conventional weapons. It does not prohibit colonization, it just prohibits exclusive territorial claims.
Aren't all these climate talks the political/economic equivalent of a BSOD?
These talks are mostly meaningless. The last big climate agreement was the Kyoto accords, and in the following years, the countries that had refused to sign/ratify collectively reduced their carbon emissions by more than those that did sign up. Signing an agreement to do something is very different from actually doing it.
I'm sure you mean "education" as the indoctrination of peoples with beliefs that you yourself support of course.
Just basic literacy will help a lot. Most conflicts in the world involve illiterate soldiers on one or both sides. Modern war is very expensive, and very destructive. War almost never makes economic sense. Most countries have market economies, so if your neighbor has resources that you want, you don't need to take it by force, you can just buy it.
This stuff is very different from Aerogel. I bought some Aerogel on eBay for my daughter's science project. Aerogel is very rigid and fragile. It can fracture just from normal handling. According to TFA, this gold foam is malleable, and can be bent and shaped by hand. That would make it very different from old fashioned Aerogel, and suitable for different applications. Supposedly, Aerographene is also elastic.
The last I looked sunshine Bill Gates became the richest man in the world again
So? If he wasn't giving money away, he would be even richer. Philanthropy can be deducted from your taxable income, reducing your total tax bill, but you can only save a fraction of what you give. It is not a net win.
Oh yes, I recall Bill and Melinda Gates sneaking up behind me, clubbing me on the back of the head, and stealing my money...oh, wait, they didn't do that.
Yes they did. Throughout the 1990s, Microsoft used monopolistic practices to compel almost anyone buying a computer to pay a tax to Microsoft, whether you wanted their software or not. They made large political donations to keep this scam going in spite of court rulings that it was illegal. I believe that Bill's foundation is a huge force for good in the world, but let's not sugar coat the scummy business practices that made it possible.
Also, Linsey McGoey is fully in her rights to critique how they spend it.
Sure, but keep in mind that she has a much bigger incentive to be negative, than to be positive. Far more people will buy her book if she says philanthropy is harmful, since then the readers can feel smug and superior about doing nothing.
Any chance that will increase alkali or other emissions?
They don't vaporize, and any that were emitted as a mist would quickly settle out of the air. Ocean spray is alkaline. So is calcium rich spring water sold in grocery stores.
Or noise emissions?
There is no reason that a bubbler or mister would be noisy. Certainly less than the 100 ton stamping machines. The Tesla plant is located in Fremont next to I-880 in an industrial area, and it is a HUGE building surrounded by large parking lots. They are far away from anyone who would care about noise.
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the solicitation is decidedly public
The solicitation is public because it is illegal, and therefore normal channels of advertising (on-line, phone book, etc.) are not available. There are jurisdictions, including Britain, where prostitution is legal, but public solicitation is not. Most transactions are arranged on-line, where it is nearly invisible to anyone who doesn't seek it out.
... with pimps who beat them if they don't hustle enough.
In the book Superfreakonomics the authors conducted a study of prostitutes and pimps, and found that the women who worked with pimps were paid better and were less likely to be victims of violence. Some pimps had waiting lists of freelance prostitutes that wanted to join their teams, to benefit from the better working conditions. The authors found that pimps rarely used violence against their own prostitutes.
2. Prostitution is *heavily* associated with human trafficking
Illegal prostitution is associated with human trafficking. This is a an argument for legalization. Anyway, "human trafficking" is a far smaller problem than commonly believed. It has been wildly exaggerated by law enforcement as an excuse to increase their funding.
... a girl being forced to sell her body, rather than wanting to. This is the reason that really matters.
Again, this is something that is worsened by criminalization. The best cure for coercive prostitution is legalization and regulation.
Our country is too fond of market-based solutions to matters like this.
America's market based solutions provide the medical breakthroughs that benefit the whole world. Profit driven research has a far better track record than the alternative.
we will convince ourselves that it is for the better.
Many of us are already convinced it is for the better. Genetic diseases can be devastating, and financially ruinous. How can curing them not be "for the better"? If we can also make kids smarter, that is good too. Sure, there may be an occasional error, but we already get those from cosmic rays, and we live with it.
it will force even more scientists away from ethically sound research and into profit-driven work instead
Profits are not unethical. They are what allows economies to grow, living standards to rise, and the human condition to improve. If you think profit-driven markets are bad, go visit a country without them.
These are not the same carriers purchased twenty years ago - look at the available tech that they can now stuff into one.
20 years ago, I paid $3000 for a 133MHz computer, with 64MB of RAM. Today, I can buy a 3GHz computer, with 4GB of RAM, for $300.
You understand that it is an NGO thing, right? No government involved. No repression.
You understand that it is an NGO that lobbies the government to be more repressive? From the summary: "Brazil has laws prohibiting racial abuse, but this group doesn't think the government is doing enough to stop it."
$5000 electric cars, maybe?
Unlikely. Lithium is only a small fraction of the cost of lithium batteries, so switching to sodium won't save much, and sodium is much heavier and has lower power density (by mass or volume). A sodium battery may make sense for static applications where neither weight nor power density matter, but electric car batteries will continue to be based on lithium.
Last June, I was in Sweden and Finland.
Neither Sweden nor Finland is socialist. They are both capitalist countries, and in many ways are more capitalist than America. For instance, in Sweden, the postal service is run by a private company (which also delivers mail in Denmark), and the primary education system is partly privatized, with vouchers available to all, and used by about 10% of students to attend privately run schools.
Who is going to hire someone out of prison with a record as a programmer.
Pro-tip: If you don't want a them to know you were in prison, then don't put it on your resume. Many companies don't do background checks, and often they don't do any fact checking at all. According to The Economist, a criminal record is not correlated with poor job performance for many jobs. You are better off filtering out people that use MSIE to complete their job application, or that write in all single case (either upper or lower). Those are both correlated with poor performance.
It is tough to get hired as a gardener with a record.
Gardeners have more opportunities to steal stuff.
At what point do people need to take responsibility for their actions or words?
For actions, it is when they cause specific identifiable harm to other individuals. For words, it is when they are a clear and credible threat to a specific individual, or a clear and immediate danger to other people (shouting fire in a theater). Otherwise people should be free to do most things, and free to say anything, including things that are offensive.
This campaign is shameful. Brazilians should be fighting to end censorship of opinions, not trying to get their government to be more repressive.
First they would need a business permit in order to be contractors. They can not be supervised by Uber in any way, And they would need a written contract
None of these are specific requirements to be an independent contractor. The IRS has a list of 20 criteria for classification as a contractor. No single criteria is either necessary or sufficient.
sadly both sides are acting atrociously.
That does not make them morally equivalent. Israel has far more power, and has far more options. Their violence is state-sanctioned, while most Palestinian violence is perpetrated by individuals. But most importantly, as an American, I object to Israel's violence because it is done, in part, with my tax dollars, in the form of military aid and loan guarantees.
They chose one of the more expensive commercially available battery technologies for their flow battery?
No. It is not more expensive, it is cheaper. Most existing flow batteries are vanadium redox. Vanadium is about $40/kg. Lithium costs about double that, but it has much higher energy density, so it is cheaper per unit of energy stored.
It prohibits the militarization and/or colonization of space.
The Outer Space Treaty does neither of these things. It prohibits offensive nuclear weapons in space, but does not prohibit conventional weapons. It does not prohibit colonization, it just prohibits exclusive territorial claims.
Aren't all these climate talks the political/economic equivalent of a BSOD?
These talks are mostly meaningless. The last big climate agreement was the Kyoto accords, and in the following years, the countries that had refused to sign/ratify collectively reduced their carbon emissions by more than those that did sign up. Signing an agreement to do something is very different from actually doing it.
A MAX232 chip converts the +5V/0V of a uart (let's assume we're running at 5V) to the RS232 standard signal (-12V/+12V or thereabouts).
It is also unnecessary 99.9% of the time. Nearly all RS232 devices and hosts will work just fine with TTL voltages (+5V/GND).
I'm sure you mean "education" as the indoctrination of peoples with beliefs that you yourself support of course.
Just basic literacy will help a lot. Most conflicts in the world involve illiterate soldiers on one or both sides. Modern war is very expensive, and very destructive. War almost never makes economic sense. Most countries have market economies, so if your neighbor has resources that you want, you don't need to take it by force, you can just buy it.
As the CIO, I would ...
As the CEO, I would fire the CIO.
This stuff is very different from Aerogel. I bought some Aerogel on eBay for my daughter's science project. Aerogel is very rigid and fragile. It can fracture just from normal handling. According to TFA, this gold foam is malleable, and can be bent and shaped by hand. That would make it very different from old fashioned Aerogel, and suitable for different applications. Supposedly, Aerographene is also elastic.
The last I looked sunshine Bill Gates became the richest man in the world again
So? If he wasn't giving money away, he would be even richer. Philanthropy can be deducted from your taxable income, reducing your total tax bill, but you can only save a fraction of what you give. It is not a net win.
Oh yes, I recall Bill and Melinda Gates sneaking up behind me, clubbing me on the back of the head, and stealing my money...oh, wait, they didn't do that.
Yes they did. Throughout the 1990s, Microsoft used monopolistic practices to compel almost anyone buying a computer to pay a tax to Microsoft, whether you wanted their software or not. They made large political donations to keep this scam going in spite of court rulings that it was illegal. I believe that Bill's foundation is a huge force for good in the world, but let's not sugar coat the scummy business practices that made it possible.
Also, Linsey McGoey is fully in her rights to critique how they spend it.
Sure, but keep in mind that she has a much bigger incentive to be negative, than to be positive. Far more people will buy her book if she says philanthropy is harmful, since then the readers can feel smug and superior about doing nothing.
I have been on the other LSD.
Me too. I have also been on an LST and an LHA.
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In a theatre where I paid money to see a show, 10-15m of ads is disgusting.
Obvious solution: Show up 10-15 minutes later, and you won't see them.
Any chance that will increase alkali or other emissions?
They don't vaporize, and any that were emitted as a mist would quickly settle out of the air. Ocean spray is alkaline. So is calcium rich spring water sold in grocery stores.
Or noise emissions?
There is no reason that a bubbler or mister would be noisy. Certainly less than the 100 ton stamping machines. The Tesla plant is located in Fremont next to I-880 in an industrial area, and it is a HUGE building surrounded by large parking lots. They are far away from anyone who would care about noise.