Echoing what others have said: just post your stuff. If you're not intentionally publicizing yourself or your work, I can nearly guarantee that no one will ever even look at your work. I've been putting up my little personal projects up on my GitHub for over ten years, and yet no one's ever come around to look at them except when I intentionally posted links to those projects on places like HN.
No one's going to look unless you ask them to look. If you already have a big audience (over 100+ people daily using things you've built) no one is going to "get curious" about your projects. So just post them so folks can see them.
Even if you ask people to look they won’t look. You really gotta sell yourself and have an influencer mindset to motivate someone to go look at code you’ve published.
This is it should be. It takes time and effort to try someone’s idea.
Regarding the fear someone does take it and claim it as their own. Who cares? You’re in no worse of a position than the code being private and then not doing it. It’s not relevant.
Just make it a legal and protected profession already , all states and countries are losing out on big tax revenue and its funneling more people into the dark underbelly of society for literally no reason.
We have easy access to porn, raves, onlyfans is essentially a digital version of this, etc and the youth are already sexualized and consumed by their desires -- but when the genitals physically cross that's too much? What a joke.
You want a deterrent, make it legal, have safe buildings and rooms for this service - all parties consent to be recorded and footage deleted in 1 year (in the event of a crime). Safer for the women cause vanilla sex is pointless to record in the age of porn/has no real leverage for the guys who just need to take the edge off and the freaks run a very real risk of capture if they get too aggressive.
It was legalised in Germany about 20 years ago. The proposal to legalise it was very thoughtful and readable, quite unlike your single-sentence assertion.
Two brief examples that I remember: ① Many prostitutes were also witnesses to related crimes, which were difficult to prosecute because the key witnesses would have to admit to their own prostitution. ② The first employer of an ex-prostitute has to teach the ways of normal employment. Some employers will make that effort, but not many. The organisations that help prostitutes find regular employment stated that a criminal record made the search much more difficult.
Why do you think they’re trying to do the Nordic model now? Hint: it’s not because legalizing sex work proved to be a great solution for their society.
Interesting to note, Germany ranks lower than the US on the happiness index.
Much better. However, their thoughtfulness is not a reason for you to be thoughtless. If you want to write that someone "haven’t thought through the implications", then you yourself need to think through the implications.
Not just write a single sentence that implies that some implications exist.
You’re operating under old internet rules where we didn’t have open source AI or paid AI to flesh out pros and cons prior to speaking with others.
What stands out to me the most is that the Nordic model proves that reducing sex work improves the economic wellbeing of people, regardless of the legalization of sex work.
My father had an 84yo boss that he marvelled at because the dude never got sick, only took a handful of vacations because his (ironically) japanese wife insisted, and basically lived in that office - he didn't need the money , he exited for like $10M aaages ago and all his children were executives (besides 1).
My father also remarked, he was the greediest man he had ever seen. Some people are so intertwined with their "hungry ghosts", work becomes the addiction, and stopping work is like telling an hardcore addict to anything to go cold turkey. To quit and retire would be the withdrawal that kills them rather than the work itself.
I too had a boss in his 80s who was the patriarch of the company, he had one son who was a partner when I was there. By staying involved, he could live like gentry alongside his clients, going on interesting trips, and participating in interesting ventures, and being invited to many parties to mingle with the local high status. I don't think pouring his own nest egg into similar ventures would be the same. It was the difference between upper class rich and middle class rich.
His son developed his own upper-class tastes but had no interest in mingling business and pleasure. He had an interest in making international big game hunting trips frequently. Whereas the father's extracurriculars always involved the business, generating leads, etc.; his adult son's extracurriculars were just burning money as a demonstration of status.
Those are the two reasons why he would not step away.
That job was insightful but also depressing because I could recognize my own inadequacy. I want to go home after an 8 hour workday. Not a calendar of dinner with one city council member a week, a second dinner per week with a bank president or similar ilk, going to lunch with various other people, outings, parties, hearings, conferences, etc. It's both exhausting and anxiety-inducing cause of FOMO. I'm sure that's a third reason of why he would not step down.
Why would it equally be shit? It's like doing a final exam , you know what you know and and you don't know what you don't know , no hacks or gimmicks can save you.
And while yes they should also test for stack related and other technical aspects and not just Algorithmic leetcode esque knowledge , thats more of a reflection on the test.
