> He would read a posting carefully, scrub his résumé, tailor an introductory note, answer the company’s screening questions, hit “Send,” hope for the best, and hear nothing in response—again and again and again.
That sums the process up pretty well. The advice for "surveying friends and former employers for leads" seems like the best bet (and referrals probably always have been), just a shame no one in my network works anywhere I'm interested in.
The whole international student thing with them is incredibly frustrating. It's practically a scam the US is pulling on the rest of the world, and somehow it's "winning" by ending it. We get the top students from other countries to come here and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each in money from their own country. American students get a discount on their tuition paid for by international students overpaying. Now, Americans will be out of jobs and have a harder time getting a college degree.
For PhDs it's a bit different, but we still could get the top students from the rest of the world to come here to contribute to our research projects (and most of the stipend they're paid is directly injected in the local economy anyways!).
This is wrong. Many US colleges don’t get the “top students” from other countries but on the contrary get absolutely horrible students from other countries, but they pay more than mediocre-but-better American students. American students do not see any discount for it, savings are not passed to students. A majority of US universities are not top-tier Ivy League schools. It may be different for those schools and for PhD programs.
The guardrails aren't the only things being stolen for scrap, they're just what the article focuses on. There's a link included to an article about streetlight copper theft which probably costs even more, and another about telecom theft.
> The next step the agency is considering is using fiberglass composite instead of aluminum to construct guard rails “to remove the value to the thieves.”
But that "everyone" isn't a single entity recording everywhere in public with the intent of providing tracking information of everyone else. If I'm in the background of someone's selfie and posts it online, it could be used to get my location at a specific time, sure, but their intent wasn't to do so and the scope of their recording is dramatically more limited than Flock.
To add to this: you being in the background of anyone's selfie is not a problem of itself. It is the aggregation of everyone's selfies that is a surveillance hazard, the risk associated with each individual picture is minimal.
I'm wondering if it's possible to make a "reasonable" looking frame (that sits entirely outside the plate, not obstructing or obscuring it) for a license plate that breaks up the shape (with the same colors) to reduce detection success further. Possibly with some IR retroreflector decorations.
That sums the process up pretty well. The advice for "surveying friends and former employers for leads" seems like the best bet (and referrals probably always have been), just a shame no one in my network works anywhere I'm interested in.