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When I worked in Russia, that was a common way to pay corruption fees for running a business. The way to go was to "employ" some person who never showed up to work, and pay "salary".

Companies I worked for were branches of American ones. They were receiving funds from US, paying salary to software developers, and did not sold anything on local market, no cash was used, hence the workaround with fake employee.

> communities of women who think men are shallow (they only want to fuck, they don't care about you at all, they spend more time on their cars than on their girlfriends).

Because most of them are ignoring nice guys, at least while the women are in their 20-s. The book "Land of the Losers" nailed it.

> people aren't served the same food

The contamination is unlikely to come from raw food itself, chefs at restaurants are buying from the same retail channels as the rest of the people.

The source of contamination can be improper storage or handling, kitchen equipment, dishes and cutlery, people doing all the above. All these things are reused in restaurants.

> twice as likely to be diagnosed with chlamydia

See the table on page 347. For chlamydia, "period prevalence" figure is 10.1% for sex workers, 8.5% for other female attendees. That's 20% difference, not twice as likely.

Compensating for demographics factors is hard. You can surely compensate for the factor "young", can probably compensate for the factor "single", but how would you compensate for the factor "promiscuous", i.e. likely to go out and have casual sex? Because that's the demographic group people gonna sleep with, instead of sex workers.

People can get sick after eating wrong food, due to chemical or bacterial contamination. Where do you think this is more likely to happen: in a restaurant with professional staff that feeds 100 people every day, or on a picnic without professional catering?

I think escorts are safer than casual sex, their job is at stake.

1. Only two asymmetric algorithms are widely supported and almost universlly recommended, RSA and ECDSA. Compared to RSA, ECC needs smaller keys for same security.

2. I did that couple years ago already, I think it actually was 521 bits, the best one recommanded by FIPS at that time. The hardware has no relations to FIPS, it's not even _that_ expensive and should contain no secret data. I just saw no reasons not to implement the best security available: development time is not affacted by the count of these bits.

When I work on embedded Linux stuff I sign my packages.

Shipping hardware as opposed to software allows secure deployment of pre-shared keys which can be trusted.

Even if someone hacks our automatic updates server (not too unlikely, it's some shared hosting), devices we have sold won't trust the modified packages because 512-bit ECDSA signature won't match the public key they have pre-deployed.

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Depends on the content but if it’s something remotely popular, and was released on BluRay, the answer is yes. The most popular torrent at the moment apparently 1.92GB BluRay rip of Joker (2019), with 8k seeders.

There’re 2 higher-quality versions found on the Internets, 6GB and 16GB. Both have 4k video encoded in 10-bit h265, have 5.1 / 7.1 audio, the former one has 1k seeders, the latter 100. These numbers are very approximate, I haven’t downloaded nor watched that movie. But usually, even 100 seeders is enough to saturate my 120 mbit/sec download link.

YMMV.