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Secret chats aren't 2e2 encrypted?

I looked at their sceme and can't figure it out. How does T's regular scheme work - server encrypted? That wouldn't make much sense :-)

1. Easy control of my sharing. Family pictures, for instance, kept under my control. I share to my brother - he can share to those on MY share list - not his.

2. Easy & understandable date use control - my data, my choice.

3. I think they can make money by bundling features I want - payments is an easy one - give me easy and safe access to paying for stuff - paypal-like.

I'm terrified of this. I realizes some years ago this would be a problem. No, I'm not worried about being run down by a silent car. I'm concerned about people downloading their own sounds like they did for ringtones.

Can you imagine a busy street full of the latest pop songs, audio logos, Daffy Ducks, farts galore, orgasmic acceleration... Ahhhhhh...

I've heard quite cars are not really a problem. I Asian cities with high numbers of leccy cars - one can hear birds, the wind and non-automotive noises and apparently, not many dead people. maybe we should just learn to look both ways before crossing?

This is an adaptation of Design Thinking which designers have used for years. It's found in Human centered Design, Design Sprints, Jobs To Be Done... and others.

I've seen lots of projects fail, cost way over budget, take years longer than projected (personal recorded: I paid a developer to write me - his estimate - a 6 week project. 8 years later he returned my money), and/or completely miss the target because Dev jumps right in and starts coding - not being concerned with the "soft" stuff like business, usability, experience design, etc...

If this helps dev teams join the holistic effort to success, I'm all for it. I entirely agree that coders need to be problem solvers but also solvers of relevant problems.

Bad design choices are a waste of time. Good ones are necessary. from an article about TOR as a great example:

Tor needs a lot of users to create anonymity, if Tor was hard to use new users wouldn't adopt it so quickly. Because new users won't adopt it, Tor becomes less anonymous. By this reasoning it is easy to see that usability isn't just a design choice of Tor but a security requirement to make Tor more secure. https://skerritt.blog/how-does-tor-really-work/

I am not aware of psychology having any role in legislative work beyond an advisory role. One reason for this, I think, is that for any psych idea or theory one can find at least one diametrically opposed one. There is no empirical test to be carried out to falsify one or another.

Your first point is interesting, in the US where paying for asexual services is illegal in most places, it magically becomes legal if I videotape it (with approval of all concerned) and pay the people not for sexual services but for acting roles that include full sex. In your example it's the blackmailing that's the problem, and that, like my examples of rape and slavery, is illegal with or without sex being involved. And BTW, one can blackmail without professional sex services - the sex can be for free (hence fully legal) or it can involve any other thing the victim (see? no longer a victimless crimes) wants to keep private.

Many jobs have physical limitations and / or discomfort if done wrong. Sitting in front of a computer all day has a great many long term physical dangers. The solution there is workplace safety, ergonomics, and sensible limits. None of those are likely when prostitution is illegal - but are fully compatible with legal sex work.

Actually, I have known some prostitutes. Their workplaces were quite calm and polite. But, in circa 1900, factories, mills and even office typing pools and other workplaces were dangerous, noisy and in no way calm or polite. Workplace regulations have done amazing stuff to make them much more so. In the beginning - shop bosses often beat up people - Henry Ford had private guards shoot striking workers. None of that means we should NOT have pushed for workplace improvements. I see no reason prostitutes should be excluded from that. Are you really suggesting that they should be kept in hard and dangerous settings?

What you describe sounds like criminal controlled prostitution which very often involves... slavery or other coercion. As mentioned in my post - that is bad, should be opposed and prosecuted but will only improve with legal status and allowing prostitutes to call the cops.

I'm not sure what you mean by "... let self-control go for at least a while...which can lead to an otherwise reasonable party being unwilling to stop..." Private businesses often have security staff to keep people from "losing self control". Bars and nightclubs leap to mind. But again - that may be possible illegal activity done by someone - but it's not specific to paying for sex.

Sure - you can get addicted to many things, like jogging, wine, or chocolate... or sex. How does paying for sex change this? Or... should exercise, wine and chocolate only be allowed for free too?

:-)

All these points are great for various discussion but I don't see how they relate to keeping the payment for sex illegal.

I agree with you. Though your grandmother is obviously more sensible than the average car buyer, she's not representative.

I think 300k is fantasy.

But, that Lyft is actively taking on the car economy is encouraging. They aren't a band of hippies, it's a business that sees an opportunity in doing so. They may fail, or they may be what Tesla is to electric cars. That I find encouraging.

Honestly? I walk most palaces. Bad weather is my biggest reason to riding. And most people in cities can do that much more. Within an hour I can walk to most of my meetings throughout town. I live in a central-ish spot. Nice, affordable and walk-able - part of the choice. Driving takes almost as much time. The trams or metro save time only if the walk is over 30 min - and even at 60 min save only about half the time at best.

But as I posted, I didn't claim to be some universal example. I guessed 50% of people live in urban or sub-urban areas - high enough density to make public transportation practical. And I guessed that walking / public is appropriate for of transport needs.

Those who live in rural areas and/or have special needs would not be covered by the 50/80% easily (but I bet a very high percent would be covered by shared or taxi services)

Owning a car is absurdly inefficient. It sits parked 90% or more of its existence. We all pay taxes to support massive infrastructure for private cars - such as street parking in cities and police for drivers who can't stay within the law and choose to endanger my kids lives for their own convenience. Our whole view on car ownership is backwards.

I'm not preaching though - it's my choice to spend my money on things I find more useful than a status symbol parked where it might get stolen, broken into, and generally cost money. Everyone gets to make their own choices. :-)

Good news. The amount of resources devoted to cars is nuts. Just for parking in an average city.

We do need transportation but private cars are an incredibly inefficient solution for most people. Sharing / renting, public transportation and... walking work great in at least 80% of my needs. I'm gonna guess the same applies to at least 80% of urban and suburban dwellers (and if not, resources should be shifted from Free Parking and other car oriented things to excellent public).

I've lived nearly my entire life without one. I do live in cities but so do half the population.

"...the robber is a “party”..." yes, but by definition a party that has already broken the law and mutual consent - the interaction with police would be a direct result, or an extension of that non-consensual act.

:-)

I can imagine lots of extreme edge cases and semantic word play on this - and I guess phrasing things to take in every conceivable situation is why lawyers make so much.

I'll stick with "the spirit of the notion".

This rocks! Sadly we need to think of a way to profit from saving our own planet but this seems encouraging.

“But if the economics become encouraging … [then it] seems very possible.”

Thanks for the Escrow link. I don't do twitter much. I assume this will be a crown with a higher density of freelancers - so I thought the question might be more relevant. Maybe I'm wrong. Cheers.

Sometimes, sure. And sometimes aesthetics are vital. That doesn't say anything about UI design in general though, only a subset of cases.

It's possible you may need to redo UI for new search. If I add faceted search or geo search, for example in my search update, I may well need to redo the UI in a way much more fundamental than aesthetics.

True. But you might as well say the same about an umbrella not keeping mosquitoes away.

UI design doesn't involve BE design in any way. So?

I disagree that when all parties involved are willing that others can classify one of those parties as a victim. If we did that we could include selling unhealthy food, for instance.

If others don't agree with such transactions they needn't participate.

Good point.

If I was a purist I'd say "no". Using those weapons might be.

Not being a purist I'm happy to make exceptions for probable use or effect of the activity. So:

Selling weapons to people likely to commit crimes is a reasonable exception to the simple version above. and Prostitution, where the probable outcome is a mutually satisfying service involving ONLY the parties involved is not a reasonable exception.

Thanks for your reply and from the tone, am I correct in guess your answer to my question would be "no"? :-)

For a more detailed response see below:

I've been working freelance on and off for 15 years in the EU and 10 years before that in the US. Believe me, I have explored simple solutions. I don't leap into unnecessary complexity just because it's there.

I don't know any client who would pay in advance. Here it's common that I work until the end of the billing period - 1 month usually, then send an invoice. That is payable in 20 days (big companies usually have ridiculously long periods - 60-90 days) So I work for another month before getting paid for the first. That's the norm here. On a short job, 1-2 weeks I can invoice on delivery - but I still have 20 day payment terms.

Probably half the problems I get are client cash flow. Either I'm forced to wait or they exaggerated (lied) about it and never had the cash - hoping to make enough by the time I needed to be paid.

Escrow would prove that they have the money they promise.

Having milestones - say weekly size ones - reduces the risk for both sides. Client front money for a small deliverable and freelancer can work on it in confidence. At end, client accepts the work - thus freeing the payment. Client then funds the next deliverable. And so on. There can be variations - this is a basic example.

If the client doesn't accept a deliverable both sides are motivated to come to an agreement - he doesn't get it. I would build a clause into the contract that if there is no agreement the payment is frozen for x months, then split 50 / 50. This increases a motivation to agree.

And if any agreement isn't acceptable to the freelancer - she doesn't need to carry on - but her risk is much, much smaller.

To add to difficulty here - the legal system is pretty much pointless. It can take several years to sue and if you win it can take years to get any money. The losing party can declare bankruptcy or force payment plans that drag on for years. So traditional contracts are pointless.

Escrow.com looks ok - except that it's in the US and I didn't see anything for freelancers (if I want to sell a boat I see I'm covered :-) ). I didn't see any functionality like I'm talking about. But thaty's an option, maybe.

1. Nothing is exploit free - reducing risk is a good thing even if that reduction is not to 0. As for writing it - legal contracts are difficult too - but we use them all the time.

2. I'm not asking clients here :-) Nor would I demand it of a client. But there may be those motivated by something I can offer - like a discount? fun with new tech? granular control of acceptance & payment?

3. Crypto can have volatility risk. Or you can use stable coins or simply convert to fiat immediately. Again - if a smart contract option reduces one's risk it's good, even if that reduction is not to 0. There is an element of gambling in every single choice one makes, especially going into business.

I have never understood the concept of victimless crime. If two (or more) people are free to choose to have sex together and such parties are free to enter into a commercial / labor agreement how can the combination of the two be a problem?

It seems to me that it's a way to keep women from capitalizing on the area in which they have unique value over men.

Obviously I'm not talking about forced sex - or forced anything. Kidnapping, slavery, and rape are illegal and certainly apply in forced prostitution.

But in cases when it's a choice freely made by all parties concerned legal status can only help make it safer for all.

People want it. They may not want what the geeks designed, "what the tech is for" but it meets and emotional need / desire.

Think consumer level, mass adoption of email in the beginning. People didn't get it (and the very expensive hardware, difficult new knowledge, etc) to communicate - none of their friends had email yet. They did it for status and self image. The cost and difficulty of the task were part of the benefit at that time.

New tech must meet some emotional level desire - even B2B stuff. Someone needs to take a risk to adopt it first - there needs to be sufficient payoff - emotionally - for that to happen.

Superior tech, by itself, rarely is enough to make new tech "promising".

I agree with #hannob to a point.

I favor any approach that can be done now to make an improvement. We need to reduce, then eliminate atmospheric CO2 production and then get to reversing - removing it - ASAP.

It's up to us to make sure First Steps aren't seen as Only Steps - but that certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't take them.

This is really interesting. Decentralizing information and knowledge has been a good thing for a long time :-)

Bitcoin has proven digital currency can be a vehicle of value and the security of blockchain. Ethereum pushed that further with currency with superpowers.

I don't think we've seen the really interesting stuff come out of this world yet - just the baby steps.

I don't see how Huawei is different from other Chinese companies. Without evidence - I can't see why ban them.

I'd like to point out that the search and how the results are displayed are part of the design - and can be the major bit. UI design isn't only, often not even primarily, about aesthetics.

UI - or any other design is not primarily about aesthetics. Where the author says, "You don't use Google maps because it looks nice, you use it because it tells you where to go", he's right, but it took good design to make you be able to use maps and to get value from the increasing amount and level of complexity of info therein.

That all said, I agree with him that many UI redesigns are pointless and expensive. Those tend to be the ones that don't bring new value to the user - just try to do the same old thing in a "modern" or (yikes - I hate this word) "fresh" way.

Good design of anything is hard, UI's are no exception. When you go beyond UI to uX, you enter the world of motivation, intent, expectations, and other emotional fuzziness. The design job gets harder by 10 or 100x. But it's there that you find the good reasons to consider a UI redesign.

For someone who's never heard of the system it's good enough to get me interested. I'd love to see one with your history though. Great point.

I'm new to HK - just read the guidelines. I clicked this post because the title screamed scam( to me and I was curious. I was happily surprised to see a post that makes sense.

I've never heard of FIRE. I'm always skeptical of things with names like that - and some of the rules may or may not be ideal - but the conc3ept behind it is fantastic. I'm old and tried living this way way back in my 20's - then i got a family. Without a wife with the same ideals - forget it.

But* - if it could be gamified ... I always want to design something :-)