The point is that the algorithm isn't what people are currently trying to get past, they are trying to get past human hiring. When they switch to a strategy gaming the algorithms instead of the humans then the algorithms can become worse than nothing depending on how quickly the information race goes.
In my experience, they are easy to find in the US:
Get a job at a company with East and West Coast offices at the East Coast office. Always offer to help on the projects and areas that have mostly West Coast resources and leadership.
Except, he doesn't actually say life is fair or a meritocracy. Rather, he claims that you are competing in an unfair and demand driven world.
My own experience is that people who focus on successes and failures in terms of themselves and how they will deal with the environment next time, do well. Those who focus on how the environment limits them, will not do well relative to how others with less advantages will do.
I buy low end smartphones (~$25 off-contract) and I couldn't be happier with them AFA my own use. Sometimes you need whatsapp or what not to coordinate or want to run some other basic apps.
My only negative would be that the touch screen accuracy is sometimes subpar which is a real hindrance when trying to find a starter smartphone for tech curious retirees.
I'd recommend something in the spectrum of Jon Kabat Zinn's work in whatever format you prefer. For casual interest, you can find him guiding mediations on youtube or buy any of his older books for pretty much nothing on used book sites.
People with chronic pain or health issues may want something with more support like the stress clinic at UMASS lowell medical. But you really only need about 15 minutes of instruction and guided meditation and then to find whatever motivators work for you.
Once you leave you are on a very small list and you no longer have any legal protections from perpetual US surveillance and potential harassment. Will you eventually be bulk added to some no trade or no fly list? A life is 20 presidents, each with a need to look tough and place blame on scapegoats like those anti-patriots abroad.
Further, that process requires a legal proceeding with the US to investigate you for potential liabilities that is now paid for by you.
The idea of citizenship is not representative of anyone's rights in the US, which is made all the clearer by the new renunciation terms. The US could switch to the british term subject since every US person is at a minimum a subject of investigation. :)
I didn't look specifically at Tor, but even early p2p anonymizer proposals had each node aggregate groups of standard size newly encapsulated chunks that were only sent out when there's enough to send similar bundles to all its next hops. This made simple observation at each hop pretty worthless, though I think someone has since proposed a statistical attack that could narrow the client down eventually if given a long enough connection with certain behaviors.
Your US citizenship will chase you abroad, make you file more crap than and get you more closely watched by the US than can even be done illegally domestically, all while preventing you from using banks and blocking you from standard investments both in the US and abroad.
Gone are the friendly (in retrospect) days of "if you don't like us you should leave."
From other nations with sketchy governments, you can claim asylum status where you land. For US citizens, you will be assumed to be crazy if you request status. You may as well be as no US citizen is able to prove their own prosecution. If the FOIA keeps any teeth it is still ~30 years after death that a FOI request will show anyone was politically targeted by the executive branch like Martin Luther King.
Enjoy your GDP, but try to stop spending it all in one place.
> limit the number per person to something like 3, except where a special permit is held.
Organizations are people too, or corporations end up getting special permits? Either one leads to trouble and groups that buy up to maximums since they want to use all their entitlements.
> no two domains could serve essentially the same data for more than a certain transition period
So now we all need different VPN gateway and email system homepages? Who is to say domains exists for HTTP? They are unique names for many protocols.
The main problem is the ability to sell them for value. Make that hard. For example, make parties prove it is a legal inheritance or court victory that requires a transfer otherwise push it into the pool where others can try to buy it faster and deny the old registrar involvement until it falls out of the next valid ownership chain.
It seems like a potentially interesting article, but it reads like it is not not written in double negatives.
I mean the article states that being drab is about not investing in expensive traits. But everything about it is written as if there isn't a lot of natural culling of colorful things that is more natural to talk about.
Very true, but I wouldn't blame the utilities for understanding the basics of the US.
This model is really the US standard to screw lower social classes that plays out elsewhere, i.e. credit cards as the national payment system instead of payer initiated direct transfer like in most(all?) of Europe.
Richer people will tend to have strategies and resources (i.e. the money and rights to modify their residence, control over their work schedule, etc) to pay bellow average which will make them richer. People under stress will have to pay whatever the spot rates are.
This is the only defensible position for businesses as the ones with resources and time to invest in organization are the ones who have the resources to use the political system as a tool against anyone who would have them pay their full share.
But I found it difficult to get a thermal pot down to the right temperature range to begin yogurt and switched to making only kefir. Kefir is less likely to lose to a contaminant at room temperature as it is a diverse cocktail.
> But it is not given that a user has physical access to the machine, is it?
Yes, I think the logic here is flawed. The only way to know someone can do something in the physical security theatre is by their doing it. Needing to cajole any normal user into running a script is a tad more optimal than convincing them to physically move devices from the server room to the new machine that they won in your raffle.
I don't think you need to worry about the suffering of current mobile app devs, I think these kinds of articles are more about shrinking the pipeline of new junior devs and devs transitioning in based on old information.
Much of the bootcamp/training/etc programs work on presumptions that may not apply by graduation about gaps in the market that require less than average experience.
The first thing I find odd is that so many employers actually read cover letters carefully enough to discriminate based on them. The lower discrimination level with inexperienced candidates may be better explained by the lower investment in analyzing applications before scheduling interviews rather than less intention to discriminate.
I don't know much about the English market, though I occasionally get their spam overflow. Still, I have to question how you regularly get into those kinds of relationships with anyone without being needlessly mean and disrespectful in initial interactions.
With recruiters here, I generally decline the job they were thinking of and tell them what I am interested given that it has to significantly beat my current work. After a few times back and forth, that eventually brings the conversation to an end. The nicer ones tell give me some local companies that wont pay third party recruiters but might be a closer match.
Really, I think recruiters naturally tend to over represent employers who are incredibly bad deals since the better the job the less often it is empty and the easier it is to fill for free through networking (I.e. you have employees who wouldn't see guilt/risk in recommending it to friends.)
Given that recruiters are sitting in that skewed perspective of the market, they should naturally get bitter and irritated with people who turn down their "best" positions while being rude throughout the process. Probably they also feel all the more helpless in their role since I can only imagine the bizarre feedback they get from their most rewarding/difficult/longstanding customers on what were "good" matches.
If recruiters were replaced by neural networks, it may kick off the first AI rights campaign to protect AI from poor input abuse.
Hmm, I actually find that very unsettling in the context of this article and the recent VW debacle. Detecting fraud and recall worthy software failures was already a scary prospect. But a random companies' random engineers tuning a few thousand cars here or there to see what happens in real time.. I feel like we are about to enter a horrible new world where computer forensics meets regular forensics.
> our brains are remarkably changeable based on how we use them, so a better comparison might be measuring an athlete's muscle mass in different parts of the body.
Yes, I immediately thought of the motor skills experiments[1] that raised brain density in the relevant regions.
I think the first half of the article was too sensational and brave new world oriented given that the explanation for the differences in regional brain densities and contentedness would mostly be from the home environment of a young child.
It was a bit like predicting the availability of hearing tests will lead us to build classrooms of super hearers instead of intervene to address hearing issues before children fall behind.