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.
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.
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. :)
> 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.
Email logins are an interesting exception, at least for those whose domains exist purely for vanity. For non-email logins, sub-domains could be used instead.
I agree that targeting the selling aspect is another approach to consider, although I imagine there are some big hurdles there as well.
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.
