Prostitution : An old industry is in deep recession

economist.com

31 points·ph0rcyas··5 comments

Come on, man. You can't even justify this as remotely technology adjacent. If we all treat HN like reddit, it will become reddit. The story is interesting, but it's posted to the wrong link-sharing site.

Links posted here aren't necessarily about technology.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Also for more on the tech side, check out the Ugly Mugs web app mentioned in the article.

https://uknswp.org/um/

Although I won't upvote this story. I found it interesting and related to economic and cultural trends. Which are not entirely unrelated to technology.

Without revealing too much detail... one of our clients happens to be a purveyor of online temptation and, although prostitution per-se may not be paying, the "companionship" model apparently still does sell (if the traffic is any hint).

There's also a surprising number of people drawn to the chat model and a major part of their infrastructure is now geared toward concurrent live streams, sessions and sandboxed chat (HTML / JS; no HTML5 WebSockets yet) with by-the-minute or monthly billing.

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