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These are vague and strawman criticisms that deny reality and that DNS can't solve everything itself.

Who owns which domain will always be centralized if only one group or individual can own a particular name. Having multiple domain name systems creates chaos.

Privacy can be solved on the client-side with VPNs or DNS resolution encrypted proxies (dnscrypt) and private registration (by the owner).

Security (integrity and non-repudiation) already exists in the form of DNSSEC and DANE. It's a Catch-22 to say it's not when it clearly exists. It's imperfect but it does exist.

ICANN was supposed to/should've been a steward in the interests of all people, not just corporations.

You can't replace it with something else and expect a different result. All you're doing is moving problems around without addressing them. Emperor's new clothes won't fix that, sorry.

There's no solving infrequent social problems with technology, only socio-politically. I'm sure it does happen to a few people, but it sounds extremely rare.

At least a mail-in ballot usually has a "receipt," (that serial number thing that's torn off at the top/bottom) although it does little to show or prove a vote was counted, especially with the subjectiveness of interpreting handwritten marks. The bigger problem is electronic voting has no real records making it far easier to manipulate because there's nothing permanent to recount.

I suggest that to solve the receipt issue, privacy, speed of counting and accuracy to the best degree available, it's best to:

0. Make voting day a national holiday.

1. Mail every voter a durable, physical RFID token (signed by a closely-held private key) that has an unique code that is not recorded who it is given to. If they haven't received one before voting in-person, they can receive a random token.

2. The voter is first checked to make sure they haven't yet voted by keeping a database of "has voted"... completely independent of actual votes.

3. The voter either drops-off the RFID in a container in a booth for their vote preference, or they mail it sealed in two envelopes (outer mailing info, inner vote preference).

4. Votes are counted both by weight and by RFID scanning (whole containers of votes are scanned in batch) for redundancy.

5. Voters can check online in real-time if their vote was counted by searching for the RFID code they used.

6. Recounts are a matter of mass-scanning large containers (with appropriate chain-of-custody) of votes.

7. Tokens are reused to reduce waste.

Voting by mobile is extremely problematic and shocking.

1. No paper record.

2. No privacy.

A better way would be to use anonymous physical RFID pebbles that are placed in a container to indicate voting preference. Votes can be both weighed and scanned for counting redundancy very quickly.

Mail-in voting would consist of mailing back the pebble chit in an outside return envelope with an inner vote envelope designating the preference; the outer envelope is removed and mixed with many others before sorting.

Then later, no matter how a vote was cast, it's possible to find how a vote was counted (by the voter searching for the RFID code(s) they used) in real-time because all votes were mass-scanned in RFID containers... that is, there will be a number of large containers that contain all votes for a particular preference in a particular election. Subsequent elections reuse the RFIDs to eliminate waste. No hanging chads, no provisional ballots, no hacked voting machines and no voting by mobile.

Although true, Western meat agriculture isn't similar but different: zillions of animals, stacked one on the other and humans going in to clean up after them getting all that waste all over them. Either way, it's a bioreactor for evolving a pandemic. This is likely how we acquired many horrible persistent diseases: smallpox, avian flu, influenza, measles and many more.

I've seen panic buying of face masks in Palo Alto and San Jose, mostly by people who appear of Chinese ancestry. I was doubtful on its efficacy, but it appears there is some benefit combined with hand-washing. It's probably a good idea to have hand sanitizer and face masks on-hand rather than waiting until they're sold out.

The devil will never expect it and beg God to get rid of this ruffian, troublemaker layabout.

Upsides to renting

+ often all-in/TCO cheaper than owning

+ less liabilities if/when expensive items break; landlord is in-charge of must repairs and expenses

+ easier to move

Upsides to owning

+ neighbors are further away

+ potentially quieter

+ customization (upgrades, ability to modify, holes in walls)

+ able to purchase reliable/cheaper over lifecycle (TCO) items

+ feeling of dominion/stability

There are other options too: rubbertramp/vanlife, leathertramp, oceantramp, go expat in cheaper countries

Do you have ALDI Nord or Aldi there?

Giving them false information maybe an option.. or even "unintentional" misspellings, off-by-one phone numbers, disposable email addresses and vacant lots.

IANAL: Btw, has anyone asked a lawyer if this is a crime in any state or country?

It depends where you are, but a lot of people are struggling more because the very rich are using automation to eliminate jobs, take the extra money made for themselves and more easily move factories to other countries by chasing the cheapest workers. Also, consider that the decaying of the welfare state in many places has led to increasing homelessness, worsening medical conditions, shorter lives and more misery. Then there's ageism, where older workers worry constantly that they will be fired for being old and they worry that no one will hire them. And then there's the homeless, which in America as not all people know, there is a very loose patchwork of few services to help people who are permanently disabled or unemployed (but could work) to find housing, support and work. In America, if you're broke or working dead-end jobs/below livable wages: "sorry, it's your own fault."

Only a privileged few can take sabbaticals or work wherever/whenever they want.

Scrounging around for simulators or wondering how close it is to the real thing is moot because the 737 MAX is dead. The CEO is gone and there are more and more safety "glitches" being discovered. Even if they return them to service, who is going to fly on them? You? Sorry, but the cheapening-out on engineering and manufacturing over the years has eventually produced a New Coke, who's side-effect is that it kills the consumer. There's only "classic Coke" as a fix (737 NG), but that's not much better. In fact, Al Jazeera did an exposé in 2010 about the internal whistleblower who was ignored by Boeing management when it was revealed that substandard critical structural components made by subcontractor Ducommun were being crudely constructed by-hand and were grossly out of tolerances, yet Boeing management ordered them installed on customer planes anyhow. 737 NG's (-6xx, -7xx, -8xx, -9xx) have already been involved in hard landings and runway overruns where the fuselages broke apart, killing passengers, when previous similar airframes survived intact but were possibly damaged and needed inspections. These NG's are flying around above your head today, and it's unclear if the next landing or severe turbulence is going to rip the plane apart because it was either poorly engineered or poorly manufactured due to decades of lax "self-regulation"/regulatory capture and corporate greed. Some engineering areas and some planes were made better than others, but it's unnecessarily playing Russian roulette with people's lives because management used "creative" ways to cut corners.

If you want less micromorts, stick to well-maintained older 737's/777's and Airbus.

If this pans out to be true, it wouldn't be a shock given that they went along with PRISM. If you want e2e privacy, use Signal. You don't use Skype, Apple Messaging/Facetime (maybe), Telegram, TikTok, Periscope, Facebook Messaging, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp or other new/random/ubiquitous app because you don't know who they're buying giving, selling data or getting hacked by.

PS: Has anyone used FireChat in a crowd scenario without internet? There's no privacy and Bluetooth MAC is identifiable obviously, but it circumvents turning off mobile and internet.

The two best tricks I've found:

0) Getting antidepressants because you won't want to do anything much when you're depressed.

1) Getting meds if you have ADD because you will always be starting something else to never finish in order to repeat the cycle over-and-over again.

There should be a recycle redemption tax on memes so there's an economy to pickup outdated, displaced and discarded memes for their return value.