Give a third worlder $100 worth of food aid, you are transferring that much food from the US. Give them $100 to spend on food and they added $100 to the local economy in the food service industry (such as it exists).
Most people hate and fear being in front of an audience. For some, the solution really is for them to one-on-one with a teacher. But for most, the solution would be early instruction that makes them more comfortable with the situation. The sink-or-swim method of just putting them in the front of the room is probably not the right way.
You want to be a leader? It's a fact of life that a leader cannot be like this. It doesn't matter whether you're a man, a woman, gay, straight, pick a race, etc. Human beings simply don't want to follow someone that introverted. Human beings in positions of authority will not put someone that introverted into authority over people knowing that it will be systematically dysfunctional.
On a world scale, the US democratic party is on the right of the center of the political spectrum.
The world scale also includes the Communist Parties of Cambodia, North Korea and Cuba. As well as whatever name Maduro's vampire party in Venezuela calls itself. So you might as well be saying "on a global scale, which includes all of the dysfunctional shitholes with no rule of law, confiscatory policies and a penchant for firing AA batteries at political prisoners, the DNC is actually pretty damn good."
So in other words, by expanding the Overton Window until it looks likes an event horizon bringing in the entire plane of possible human political choices, you've basically made a tautilogical defense of the DNC.
For AI to be truly powerful will require machines to comprehend that norms can vary tremendously from group to group, making them seem unnecessary, yet it can be critical to follow them in a given community.
Sounds to me like they're dancing around the real issue: they know that "diversity" leads to problems. The more diverse society becomes, the more difficult the "social algorithms" for humans become. If humans often get it wrong (by the standards of those who push diversity), then AI is hopelessly screwed for a century or more.
The solution, of course, is a cultural and political. That is to impose a restoration of E Pluribus Unum in those areas fetishizing diversity. You scared that "white nationalism" is on the rise? Embrace the old motto and make it clear that there will no longer be hyphenated Americans. You are either an "American" regardless of race and ancestry or you are not. If you choose the latter, you will not share in the political economy of the Americans.
As noted previously, the proposal is being driven by rights holders frightened by technological change, including brick and mortar publishers eager to blame companies like Google for their failure to evolve in the modern internet era.
Publishers are doing just fine, it's the journalism profession that's not. It's because journalism never established a culture over the last 200 years of habituating people to pay money directly for the content. So now only a handful of publications have such a rapport with their readers that they can get them to pay a premium to access the content.
It gets worse when you realize that in the US (I know this is Europe) at least half of the content came from Reuters or the AP, so where was the value of buying Local Paper over the NY Times or WaPo at that point? To see a handful of local interest stories you'd probably get through gossip anyway?
The exploits are almost old enough to legally drink alcohol in the United States,
Now why would you do that, unless you support legacy systems that are positively ancient? It's like all of the healthcare and insurance websites that say you can only use 8-16 characters and provide a tiny whitelist of special characters. Why are those even allowed to be online if that's all they can handle? That's all but an admission you're too cheap to update anything to make it really secure.
Look at how Apple treated Gab's app and tell me that's not a desire to deny them on purely ideological reasons. Hey look, we found something racist, no app for you.
Twitter, meanwhile, gets their app approved despite the fact that they are notoriously pro-racism when it comes from non-whites. You can write the most racist bile all day long about us, get reported and Twitter won't take the posts down. They also get past that same Apple policy enforcement despite being a haven for bigotry and that being a no-no to Apple.
Considering the number of appeals they went through, I refuse to believe that that was a lone employee and uncoordinated. The government is perfectly justified in operating on the assumption that there is massive collusion to keep out alternatives.
"I think this will continue until we have the legal systems properly looking at it, and have strong laws that people have to obey."
Merkel twisted Zuck's arm into providing a full censorship system for Germany on Facebook.
Germans are now punished for noticing that with her influx of 1m "refugees" they have had a surge of barbaric sexual violence.
Courts have allowed culture and "sexual emergencies" to excuse things as evil as child rape by the same "refugees."
Now they wonder why the "right wing parties" are rising. Gee, could it be because the existing strong laws are being used to violently suppress anyone who commits the sin of noticing that the elites are virtue-signaling their nations into misery?
I'll make my own prediction: Germany is more likely to adopt strong treason laws that allow them to execute these elites within 10 years than maintain the status quo.
It's not just high school curricula that have fallen flat in the last two generations, it's the college ones as well. Look at what a Liberal Arts major had to take pre-WWII and compare that to 2018. You were expected to demonstrate a decent education in everything from history, to writing, to math and music. The idea was to create a broadly educated man who, while not a master, was a sufficiently decent "jack of all trades" that they could hit the ground running competently in most white collar fields that weren't STEM or law.
Tell me what an English major with a minor in Queer Studies who wrote her dissertation on how lesbians were oppressed in 19th century Britain is going to do to add value to any organization other than a LGBT advocacy group or something equivalent. Students have been quickly realizing that no one cares if you have a degree if your value is non-existent.
They are the single most "regressive" tax we have, to say nothing of the fact that they're the granddaddy of the logic behind civil asset forfeiture.
I get that the schools and other local services need revenue, but there are better and more moral taxes that can be applied. With modern GIS software, it is perfectly feasible for the state tax agency to build a system that will be able to map taxes owed on income and sales to the right tax authorities so neither the private citizen nor the local government have to do it. They could just impose an extra 3% sales tax and an extra 3-5% income tax and call it a day after abolishing property taxes at the state level.
Tax on the poor? Sure, but the poor pay property taxes too. You think rental owners don't pass that onto their tenants? The renting poor pay a share of property taxes too and have to do so even in bad times. Switching that to sales and income taxes would at least let the poor to reduce that equivalent tax payment when things get really tough (as you can't tax non-existent income and they can stop spending on non-essentials)
Curious, none of them would dare be seen taking a position like "I don't want to work with a company that relies on H1B visas."
If you want to talk ethics and activism, I have news for you. All that bullshit about diversity your corporate HR departments spew about hiring and visas is just a smokescreen around the fact that our immigration system is subtly more pernicious than indentured servitude.
Indentured servants had full recourse to the King's Justice in the colonies. H1bs don't have the equivalent of that in the United States.
This is why your corporation and its leadership support all of that immigration. It's to pit you and the immigrants against each other in a race to the bottom that lets them suck up that tasty arbitrage to achieve dizzying new levels of profit without having to pay you any more.
But sure, piss and moan about drones while supporting a company that makes great use of a system that is closer to the Peculiar Institution than a free market labor economy.
According to TFA, it's disturbing and outrageous that the military makes "dark jokes." This coming from the same "woke" camp that has had a spate of people making jokes about raping and murdering children. In the case of Rick and Morty, the creators are beyond sick to the point where their side projects should get them locked up on obscenity charges for a very long time.
But if you follow the outrage logic of the woke it makes sense:
* US military = white male patriarchy. * Most of our wars are against countries full of People of Color.
Ergo, it's racist white men killing aspiring People of Color thus evil on its face.
But when we make "jokes" about raping little boys or carving their faces off, then murdering them... that's just "dark humor."
This sort of hypocrisy will not be sustainable for long going forward. You want to know why the center-right increasingly takes a reflexive "fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on" attitude toward the left? This is why. Even most of the mainstream liberals I know refuse to call this out and try to suck the oxygen out of the room rather than admit most of the people to their left are grade A assholes.
And despite being a serious geek in HS and college, I mean that in a pejorative sense. Only the kicker is that actual nerds can at least communicate between each and form real relationships because of shared underlying psychology and interests. You want to see a truly ugly nerdy display? Watch two people on a "date" where both are glued to their phones and not try actively trying to figure each other out. (As an aside, I have absolutely no sympathy for women do this then complain that their man is a douche/asshole/rapey/etc. How about you get the fuck off FaceBookInstagramShitterWhutzUpDoc and talk to him and figure him out instead of limiting your human contact with him to phones and fucking)
There are definitely some bad religious ones, but the Fear of the Lord tends to sharpen the minds of the organizations especially if they're more at the regional level where there are not enough fiefdom-building opportunities.
If you're a giver who wants to help babies--the MOD's ostensible justification for existence--go find the most orthodox church in your area. You know, the one where they believe abortion is straight up murder. Ask the head pastor or the priest who they would recommend you send your money to support. I can almost guarantee you that the percentage that will go to poor moms and babies will be significantly higher than anything sent to the MOD.
In Java, it's common to check if a list is null before iterating over it avoid a NPE. In Groovy we can do this:
someList?.each { item -> something(item) }
The null-safe operator ? tells the Groovy compiler to write that null check for me and quietly disregard the call to "each" if it fails.
I see colleagues use Map.get and then either forget to check for null values or add an extra 1-2 lines of code. In Groovy we can do:
def x = myMap[someString] ?: DEFAULT_VAL
Another simple example, but the "elvis operator," ?: means "if the conditional statement to my left is truthy, return its value and assign to x otherwise use the value to my right."
These are simplistic examples, but in Java they happen all the time.
Kotlin has a lot of the advantages of Scala, but without the C++-like complexity that Scala can bring to the JVM (and without C++'s performance or hardware hooks).
It's proof that you can have a language about as concise as Python, but with clean static typing.
I am a lot less concerned about the PRC being allowed to view the code for Oracle DB or Windows than I am about allowing Chinese citizens to be employed to work on them. The human intelligence network run by PRC intelligence puts anything the US or Russians have ever had to shame because they can rely on Chinese nationalism in the civilian population to get part-time assets in places we never could. It should be taken as a given that the PRC has agents in Microsoft and Oracle because that's how they roll.
If any of that sounds outlandish, read this. As just one example, in terms of influencing public policy, the PRC is way worse than anything most liberals believe about Russia.
This bullshit about judges being allowed to hand down injunctions without being able to cite a specific statute or the constitution needs to be stopped forcefully by constitutional amendment and statutory changes.
Is it dangerous? I don't know, but I do know that your sorry ass isn't one of the people's representatives in Congress. Go fuck yourself, even if you are 100% right about the danger. Your opinion, as a judge, is irrelevant. You're not a fucking legislator.
Lefties, you want to squawk about "threats to democracy?" Activist judges that behave like this are that and more.
Over 90% of all of the terrorist attacks in the West in the last several years have been perpetrated by "known wolves." These are usually immigrants who are known to the authorities for being extremely radical and with some sort of criminal history that suggests the likelihood they may end up acting on their rhetoric is much higher than 0%.
Simple solution to this whole problem:
1. Deport all imams that have ever legitimized jihad against the West. 2. Deport all immigrants who ever threaten violence against their host nation and/or its government. 3. Deport all immigrants who advocate common felonies against their host nation. 4. Deport all immigrants who advocate violence toward our allies. 5. Deport all immigrants who advocate violence against the civilian populations of even our enemies. 6. Deport all immigrants convicted of any felony or who are charged with many and plea bargain down w/ any sort of deal where the felonies will be reinstated if probation is violated.
We don't need secret tracking systems, mass surveillance, etc. We need zero tolerance and limited due process for foreigners who are in any way a net negative if they stay in our nations.
Totalitarians have never understood a simple fact about this sort of thing: maybe the apple falls far from the tree, maybe it doesn't, but it's easier to hold power by cultivating love and respect among your subjects than fear. They forget the basic principle Machiavelli laid out that most long ruling rulers have always understood, which is the hierarchy is "love, then respect, then fear" with no fourth option.
Ruling the masses through fear is particularly dangerous because at times of crisis, it will never inspire selfless acts of loyalty to the country. Men might lay down their lives for their friends and families in a crisis in such a society, but they won't go the extra mile for the polity itself, and in a time of true crisis like a major war that can have terrible consequences when facing an enemy that inspires fanatical love and respect in their people.
It's not even real surveillance if the PI walks into the target's office and sees a prominent calendar in the center of the office that says "Mr. CEO is having lunch with Sexy Secretary at 1PM" and just sends a photo of that to his employer.
Bots and algorithms are trained by people. The people who manually intervene at Facebook and Google have shown a remarkable consistency in letting their personal views inform their decisions. Case in point: the demonetizing of Prager University by YouTube. The fact that Google did not intervene and fire a segment of the YouTube workforce over that manual decision is a perfectly valid data point to call into question the culture training these models.
I find it frustrating how conservatives (both Tories and our own domestic counterparts) flip their shit at the most practical solution to prostitution which is simultaneously make marriage more desirable and make a pattern of withholding sex grounds for divorce. You want to see conservatives suddenly channel their inner feminist? Suggest that if the little lady ain't putting out, absent a particularly good reason, she is in breach of the legal covenant of marriage and off she goes without a right of alimony.
A few generations ago, we didn't have such complications with regulating sex. Men had to try to get it up (even when their wives were fat and dumpy) and women had to put out (even if he's not an exciting alpha bad boy) in marriage. You got married young, were supposed to fuck the shit out of each other and most men had no reason to visit prostitutes. Some men were dicks, some women were nagging, shrewish bitches. If you stop drinking the "before Current Year(tm) it was barbarism" kool aid, sounds arguably a lot more libertarian and practical at the same time.
Hookers aren't the problem here. We have an incel-mass producing culture that is arguably worse than a society that practices polygamy.
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Give a third worlder $100 worth of food aid, you are transferring that much food from the US. Give them $100 to spend on food and they added $100 to the local economy in the food service industry (such as it exists).
So crazy it's just common sense.
You want to be a leader? It's a fact of life that a leader cannot be like this. It doesn't matter whether you're a man, a woman, gay, straight, pick a race, etc. Human beings simply don't want to follow someone that introverted. Human beings in positions of authority will not put someone that introverted into authority over people knowing that it will be systematically dysfunctional.
The world scale also includes the Communist Parties of Cambodia, North Korea and Cuba. As well as whatever name Maduro's vampire party in Venezuela calls itself. So you might as well be saying "on a global scale, which includes all of the dysfunctional shitholes with no rule of law, confiscatory policies and a penchant for firing AA batteries at political prisoners, the DNC is actually pretty damn good."
So in other words, by expanding the Overton Window until it looks likes an event horizon bringing in the entire plane of possible human political choices, you've basically made a tautilogical defense of the DNC.
Sounds to me like they're dancing around the real issue: they know that "diversity" leads to problems. The more diverse society becomes, the more difficult the "social algorithms" for humans become. If humans often get it wrong (by the standards of those who push diversity), then AI is hopelessly screwed for a century or more.
The solution, of course, is a cultural and political. That is to impose a restoration of E Pluribus Unum in those areas fetishizing diversity. You scared that "white nationalism" is on the rise? Embrace the old motto and make it clear that there will no longer be hyphenated Americans. You are either an "American" regardless of race and ancestry or you are not. If you choose the latter, you will not share in the political economy of the Americans.
Publishers are doing just fine, it's the journalism profession that's not. It's because journalism never established a culture over the last 200 years of habituating people to pay money directly for the content. So now only a handful of publications have such a rapport with their readers that they can get them to pay a premium to access the content.
It gets worse when you realize that in the US (I know this is Europe) at least half of the content came from Reuters or the AP, so where was the value of buying Local Paper over the NY Times or WaPo at that point? To see a handful of local interest stories you'd probably get through gossip anyway?
Now why would you do that, unless you support legacy systems that are positively ancient? It's like all of the healthcare and insurance websites that say you can only use 8-16 characters and provide a tiny whitelist of special characters. Why are those even allowed to be online if that's all they can handle? That's all but an admission you're too cheap to update anything to make it really secure.
Look at how Apple treated Gab's app and tell me that's not a desire to deny them on purely ideological reasons. Hey look, we found something racist, no app for you.
Twitter, meanwhile, gets their app approved despite the fact that they are notoriously pro-racism when it comes from non-whites. You can write the most racist bile all day long about us, get reported and Twitter won't take the posts down. They also get past that same Apple policy enforcement despite being a haven for bigotry and that being a no-no to Apple.
Considering the number of appeals they went through, I refuse to believe that that was a lone employee and uncoordinated. The government is perfectly justified in operating on the assumption that there is massive collusion to keep out alternatives.
Merkel twisted Zuck's arm into providing a full censorship system for Germany on Facebook.
Germans are now punished for noticing that with her influx of 1m "refugees" they have had a surge of barbaric sexual violence.
Courts have allowed culture and "sexual emergencies" to excuse things as evil as child rape by the same "refugees."
Now they wonder why the "right wing parties" are rising. Gee, could it be because the existing strong laws are being used to violently suppress anyone who commits the sin of noticing that the elites are virtue-signaling their nations into misery?
I'll make my own prediction: Germany is more likely to adopt strong treason laws that allow them to execute these elites within 10 years than maintain the status quo.
It's not just high school curricula that have fallen flat in the last two generations, it's the college ones as well. Look at what a Liberal Arts major had to take pre-WWII and compare that to 2018. You were expected to demonstrate a decent education in everything from history, to writing, to math and music. The idea was to create a broadly educated man who, while not a master, was a sufficiently decent "jack of all trades" that they could hit the ground running competently in most white collar fields that weren't STEM or law.
Tell me what an English major with a minor in Queer Studies who wrote her dissertation on how lesbians were oppressed in 19th century Britain is going to do to add value to any organization other than a LGBT advocacy group or something equivalent. Students have been quickly realizing that no one cares if you have a degree if your value is non-existent.
They are the single most "regressive" tax we have, to say nothing of the fact that they're the granddaddy of the logic behind civil asset forfeiture.
I get that the schools and other local services need revenue, but there are better and more moral taxes that can be applied. With modern GIS software, it is perfectly feasible for the state tax agency to build a system that will be able to map taxes owed on income and sales to the right tax authorities so neither the private citizen nor the local government have to do it. They could just impose an extra 3% sales tax and an extra 3-5% income tax and call it a day after abolishing property taxes at the state level.
Tax on the poor? Sure, but the poor pay property taxes too. You think rental owners don't pass that onto their tenants? The renting poor pay a share of property taxes too and have to do so even in bad times. Switching that to sales and income taxes would at least let the poor to reduce that equivalent tax payment when things get really tough (as you can't tax non-existent income and they can stop spending on non-essentials)
Curious, none of them would dare be seen taking a position like "I don't want to work with a company that relies on H1B visas."
If you want to talk ethics and activism, I have news for you. All that bullshit about diversity your corporate HR departments spew about hiring and visas is just a smokescreen around the fact that our immigration system is subtly more pernicious than indentured servitude.
Indentured servants had full recourse to the King's Justice in the colonies. H1bs don't have the equivalent of that in the United States.
This is why your corporation and its leadership support all of that immigration. It's to pit you and the immigrants against each other in a race to the bottom that lets them suck up that tasty arbitrage to achieve dizzying new levels of profit without having to pay you any more.
But sure, piss and moan about drones while supporting a company that makes great use of a system that is closer to the Peculiar Institution than a free market labor economy.
According to TFA, it's disturbing and outrageous that the military makes "dark jokes." This coming from the same "woke" camp that has had a spate of people making jokes about raping and murdering children. In the case of Rick and Morty, the creators are beyond sick to the point where their side projects should get them locked up on obscenity charges for a very long time.
But if you follow the outrage logic of the woke it makes sense:
* US military = white male patriarchy.
* Most of our wars are against countries full of People of Color.
Ergo, it's racist white men killing aspiring People of Color thus evil on its face.
But when we make "jokes" about raping little boys or carving their faces off, then murdering them... that's just "dark humor."
This sort of hypocrisy will not be sustainable for long going forward. You want to know why the center-right increasingly takes a reflexive "fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on" attitude toward the left? This is why. Even most of the mainstream liberals I know refuse to call this out and try to suck the oxygen out of the room rather than admit most of the people to their left are grade A assholes.
And despite being a serious geek in HS and college, I mean that in a pejorative sense. Only the kicker is that actual nerds can at least communicate between each and form real relationships because of shared underlying psychology and interests. You want to see a truly ugly nerdy display? Watch two people on a "date" where both are glued to their phones and not try actively trying to figure each other out. (As an aside, I have absolutely no sympathy for women do this then complain that their man is a douche/asshole/rapey/etc. How about you get the fuck off FaceBookInstagramShitterWhutzUpDoc and talk to him and figure him out instead of limiting your human contact with him to phones and fucking)
There are definitely some bad religious ones, but the Fear of the Lord tends to sharpen the minds of the organizations especially if they're more at the regional level where there are not enough fiefdom-building opportunities.
If you're a giver who wants to help babies--the MOD's ostensible justification for existence--go find the most orthodox church in your area. You know, the one where they believe abortion is straight up murder. Ask the head pastor or the priest who they would recommend you send your money to support. I can almost guarantee you that the percentage that will go to poor moms and babies will be significantly higher than anything sent to the MOD.
In Java, it's common to check if a list is null before iterating over it avoid a NPE. In Groovy we can do this:
someList?.each { item -> something(item) }
The null-safe operator ? tells the Groovy compiler to write that null check for me and quietly disregard the call to "each" if it fails.
I see colleagues use Map.get and then either forget to check for null values or add an extra 1-2 lines of code. In Groovy we can do:
def x = myMap[someString] ?: DEFAULT_VAL
Another simple example, but the "elvis operator," ?: means "if the conditional statement to my left is truthy, return its value and assign to x otherwise use the value to my right."
These are simplistic examples, but in Java they happen all the time.
Kotlin has a lot of the advantages of Scala, but without the C++-like complexity that Scala can bring to the JVM (and without C++'s performance or hardware hooks).
It's proof that you can have a language about as concise as Python, but with clean static typing.
I am a lot less concerned about the PRC being allowed to view the code for Oracle DB or Windows than I am about allowing Chinese citizens to be employed to work on them. The human intelligence network run by PRC intelligence puts anything the US or Russians have ever had to shame because they can rely on Chinese nationalism in the civilian population to get part-time assets in places we never could. It should be taken as a given that the PRC has agents in Microsoft and Oracle because that's how they roll.
If any of that sounds outlandish, read this. As just one example, in terms of influencing public policy, the PRC is way worse than anything most liberals believe about Russia.
This bullshit about judges being allowed to hand down injunctions without being able to cite a specific statute or the constitution needs to be stopped forcefully by constitutional amendment and statutory changes.
Is it dangerous? I don't know, but I do know that your sorry ass isn't one of the people's representatives in Congress. Go fuck yourself, even if you are 100% right about the danger. Your opinion, as a judge, is irrelevant. You're not a fucking legislator.
Lefties, you want to squawk about "threats to democracy?" Activist judges that behave like this are that and more.
Over 90% of all of the terrorist attacks in the West in the last several years have been perpetrated by "known wolves." These are usually immigrants who are known to the authorities for being extremely radical and with some sort of criminal history that suggests the likelihood they may end up acting on their rhetoric is much higher than 0%.
Simple solution to this whole problem:
1. Deport all imams that have ever legitimized jihad against the West.
2. Deport all immigrants who ever threaten violence against their host nation and/or its government.
3. Deport all immigrants who advocate common felonies against their host nation.
4. Deport all immigrants who advocate violence toward our allies.
5. Deport all immigrants who advocate violence against the civilian populations of even our enemies.
6. Deport all immigrants convicted of any felony or who are charged with many and plea bargain down w/ any sort of deal where the felonies will be reinstated if probation is violated.
We don't need secret tracking systems, mass surveillance, etc. We need zero tolerance and limited due process for foreigners who are in any way a net negative if they stay in our nations.
Totalitarians have never understood a simple fact about this sort of thing: maybe the apple falls far from the tree, maybe it doesn't, but it's easier to hold power by cultivating love and respect among your subjects than fear. They forget the basic principle Machiavelli laid out that most long ruling rulers have always understood, which is the hierarchy is "love, then respect, then fear" with no fourth option.
Ruling the masses through fear is particularly dangerous because at times of crisis, it will never inspire selfless acts of loyalty to the country. Men might lay down their lives for their friends and families in a crisis in such a society, but they won't go the extra mile for the polity itself, and in a time of true crisis like a major war that can have terrible consequences when facing an enemy that inspires fanatical love and respect in their people.
If the US were to steal the designs and market them to the rest of the world?
It's not even real surveillance if the PI walks into the target's office and sees a prominent calendar in the center of the office that says "Mr. CEO is having lunch with Sexy Secretary at 1PM" and just sends a photo of that to his employer.
Management often operates on perception.
If they aren't predisposed to give you the benefit of the doubt, they'll see chatting as goofing off.
That happened to me in an open office layout. Management saw most of my conversations as distracting others and was a key reason why I was let go.
Then it turned out that I knew a lot about what each group was doing and could discuss issues, direction, etc. with all of them.
Oh well.
Bots and algorithms are trained by people. The people who manually intervene at Facebook and Google have shown a remarkable consistency in letting their personal views inform their decisions. Case in point: the demonetizing of Prager University by YouTube. The fact that Google did not intervene and fire a segment of the YouTube workforce over that manual decision is a perfectly valid data point to call into question the culture training these models.
I find it frustrating how conservatives (both Tories and our own domestic counterparts) flip their shit at the most practical solution to prostitution which is simultaneously make marriage more desirable and make a pattern of withholding sex grounds for divorce. You want to see conservatives suddenly channel their inner feminist? Suggest that if the little lady ain't putting out, absent a particularly good reason, she is in breach of the legal covenant of marriage and off she goes without a right of alimony.
A few generations ago, we didn't have such complications with regulating sex. Men had to try to get it up (even when their wives were fat and dumpy) and women had to put out (even if he's not an exciting alpha bad boy) in marriage. You got married young, were supposed to fuck the shit out of each other and most men had no reason to visit prostitutes. Some men were dicks, some women were nagging, shrewish bitches. If you stop drinking the "before Current Year(tm) it was barbarism" kool aid, sounds arguably a lot more libertarian and practical at the same time.
Hookers aren't the problem here. We have an incel-mass producing culture that is arguably worse than a society that practices polygamy.