> In response to a Colorado state law that requires employers post salary ranges in job postings, companies are simply refusing to consider applicants from the state.
I don't know what ad revenue CPMs are like, but surely any Chrome extension that gathers all web traffic (metadata, content and potentially credit card details) of 100,000 users is surely worth at least $0.1/user per month?
Especially if the users are predominantly from wealthy countries?
Are you laughing because you consider that figure on the low side or the high side?
> Houdini was immediately suspicious. The message was written in English and his mother only spoke German. At the top of each page was a cross. His mother was the wife of a rabbi and devoutly Jewish. There is no way she would have drawn a cross. Finally, the day of the séance was her birthday. Why didn’t she mention this?
This would probably sound laughable for anybody who has basic idea of extrasensory practice. Even assuming ghosts exist, you really can't contact them directly as if they were on a telephone/fax. That only works this way in cartoons. The only slightly realistic scenario is them channeling pure meanings/thoughts into a medium's mind. The medium then interprets them and turns them into words/drawings in accordance with habits of his own mind.
For example some times I (not a medium, I mean in ordinary life) really know what do I want to say and that is a simple one-word concept but I have hard time recalling the word in ANY of the languages I speak, I only have a pure meaning experience without a verbal representation to express. If I somehow could pass this sense to someone else telepathically they would still probably misinterpret it, e.g. because they have a different context in their minds.
And I would hardly waste time/traffic mentioning my birthday if I were talking to my son through an unreliable inter-dimensional telepathical connection.
It seems obvious they probably don't exist and it's hardly possible to prove they do. But if they did (proving they don't exist seems equally impossible to me), I could only imagine they would communicate the way I describe.
Nevertheless it indeed seems a curious exercise to invent a framework for meaningful communication to be logically possible over a channel of such a nature keeping its fuzziness in mind.
I instinctively try to make the least bald assumption possible. Of course, as we exercise unconstrained imagination, we could imagine a ghost being so mighty it would materialize beautiful LaTeX documents right on our hard drives manipulating magnetic particles on them. Nevertheless, if I forget about the doubt in ghosts existing at all for sake of fun or whatever, the next doubt I have is they can manipulate the matters of material world with ease and precision - even if they could manifest a blow of a wind it would probably be hard for them to manipulate it precisely enough to produce continuous ineligible speech.
The mindset is basically: Programming is hard so we're going to block as many non-paying customers as possible to limit the blast radius when we inevitably fuck up. And inconvenience those paying users too, because we can't figure out how to mitigate DoS attacks at the edge. And then we'll give a talk at a Next.js conference or something.
If you're good enough you can pretty much dictate your working conditions. But it's bad advice for most people. I've seen plenty of mediocre devs take this kind of advice, and it's sad/embarrassing to see. Anyone who's decent figures out that they can cut corners at their first job. 90% of the devs I've worked with (conservatively) should never cut corners and should've been putting in more hours to become adequate. Most feel-good self-help advice like this is worse than useless, it's harmful to anybody who finds it novel.
When I start answering these hard questions about my ethnicity, one result is strong sense of white pride. It's hard to tell if that's the desired outcome or not; I'm skeptical of the sincerity of these people looking for "allies" through insults.
Perhaps 'pride' isn't a long-term useful label. I have chosen 'appreciation' for my ancestors that worked hard and contributed to our civilization.
Once viewed though that lens, you being to see kindred spirits in a lot of other races and cultures. For me, it came to a growing realization that as a white male, I often have much more in common with a new immigrant than I do with a trust-fund white kid that burning the downtown.
