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Prostitution : An old industry is in deep recession
- haimez 13y agoCome 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.
- aqme28 13y agoLinks 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."
- gee_totes 13y agoAlso for more on the tech side, check out the Ugly Mugs web app mentioned in the article. https://uknswp.org/um/ https://uknswp.org/um/
- negamax 13y agoAlthough I won't upvote this story. I found it interesting and related to economic and cultural trends. Which are not entirely unrelated to technology.
- eksith 13y agoWithout 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.