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Modern Slavery: Understanding Indian Recruitment Fraud

The scale of "Desi consultancy" outsourcing and H1B scams infesting IT through job sites such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, and others has reached an almost unmanageable level. The breadth and sophistication of these schemes is staggering, and cheap AI subscriptions have made things 1000x worse. What's difficult for US domestic

technology

A Searchable Multi-Language Bible In Less Than An Hour With Elasticsearch + Go

As the original corpus, the bible is 66 books containing 31,102 verses, for a total of 783,131 words. Storing that in a database is trivial. Anyone can do it, for free, in less than an hour. If you're a techie, read on. For the impatient, go to: https:

elections

Can We Adapt Blockchain Tech For Direct Democracy Electoral Voting?

We have reached a place where democratic representatives in Western countries are members of country club aristocracies entirely disconnected from the public. Cryptographic technology and smartphones put us within reach of instant referenda polling for the first time. If we can vote instantly, what need do we have of representatives

education

Turning GCSE, GED, IB, & Diplomas Into Video Games

Play is nature's mechanism of teaching and learning: competition, reward, repetition, collaboration, failure, creativity, and more. Without sacrificing in-person socialisation, we can update classical education for the technological homeschooling age, using the tools the children already love by transposing the syllabi of primacy and secondary education into storyline-based video console

science

A Sci-Fi Future Of Small Modular Liquid Fluoride Thorium Molten Salt Reactors

We are paying the price of the 2022 energy crisis for the failures of our politicians 30 years ago. There is no way to provide for humanity's electricity needs other than a massive and unprecedented investment in nuclear energy. There simply is no other non-hydrocarbon source which can reliably serve

technology

MedVault: A Blueprint For Secure Medical QR Codes

QR codes are designed to be like postcards on lampposts. They are not designed to contain private information. They are meant to be openly scannable by anyone at all in full public view. As such, they are the least appropriate medium to be placing any kind of personal medical information

technology

The Absolute State Of Big Tech

In January 2022, Twitter removed a damning thread by a Silicon Valley insider which received such enormous blowback the shockwave lasted for days. Pseudonymous user Hazard Harrington, who claims to work within FAANG, narrated his view on the industry situation. It's a partisan account, but it's one we all recognise

technology

Getting The Soviet Republic Of Big Tech Out Of Your Life

If Big Tech platforms are now countries, they seem to resemble communist dictatorships like the USSR or the People's Republic of China. Silicon Valley's big Utopian, transhumanist ideas are looking more like Dante's Hell than Elysium. A small council control the flow of information and decide what is good for

blockchain

Censorship-Proof Blockchain DNS Systems

The Blockchain is many things. It's undoubtedly a work of genius to a problem most people don't realise even exists because we take it for granted so often. It's provoked an unstoppable wave of idealistic innovation, mostly from libertarian ideologues and tech oddballs, on top of curious sharks in the

extremism

Outdated Foes On New Platforms

Children lie dead. Barely hours after the mass murder of 49 people, interest groups from all ends of the spectrum claim the latest appalling slaughter is confirmation of their existing beliefs. Everyone generates a simple low-resolution explanation to use for their own purposes. We all know what comes next: arguments

screenwriting

ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON is a data model and object notation/interchange syntax for screenplays. In essence, it is “screenplays for computers”. Word processors help humans to author scripts.PDFs help humans to publish and read scripts.ScreenJSON helps computer systems understand and analyze scripts.For the impatient, the documentation is here: https: