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Author here. You're right. The project is still in beta - so we're still working on ironing out some of the kinks. The host key verification issue is being worked on today actually. I'm not sure what you mean by "bootstrapping the chain of trust with pre-verified credentials" though. If you want to open an issue on https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/holepunch we'd love to get your feedback about how we can improve security prior to a general release.

We absolutely cannot all agree on that. As you point out - the fact of the matter is that an undergraduate degree in business, engineering or medicine costs the same as a degree in art, social work or childhood education and pays about 3-4 times as much. So it's individually quite stupid to major in anything _other_ than engineering, business or premed. Do you really think a society is going to function without teachers, psychologists, lawyers and artists? So in that case can we all agree that arranging the incentives so that the only thing Universities produce are engineers, MBA's and medical professionals is an awful idea societally and for the individuals involved?

Of course.

I've been through and used several different styles of interview and the one that stands out as being "the best" at predicting whether a person will fit on the team is just to bring them in and work with them for a day on your actual product

1) You don't do problems you've already solved that they have to come up with same answer to.

2) You don't do algorithm / problem testing that they're never going to use on the job.

3) You don't do whiteboarding except as you would in real life.

Engineering teams are people working collaboratively to solve complicated problems where nobody knows the "right" answer. Any interview that's going to tell you something is going to measure along those metrics, and not "can you invert this b-tree on a whiteboard."

Wait a second. Is this recently? For all of Obamacare's problems - I thought that it at least solved this particular abuse.