$40 million in gold bars is about a thousand pounds of gold. That would be hard to plant.

There's a section in this article that offers some slightly different views on the IPO: https://rubbishtalk.com/world/dow-50k-2t-ipo-and-the-iran-de...

It make it more solidly clear how this really is an IPO for all 3 orgs: SpaceX, X, and xAI which helped me understand more of the video.

> The Launch segment posted $4.1 billion in revenue but a $657 million operating loss, driven by roughly $3 billion in Starship R&D — a deliberate strategic bet, not a distressed business.

All in all it reflects a ton of what the youtube video says though (I haven't finished the video though). It adds some color.

It's hard to tell. There's no shortage of these types of questions, or people claiming to have the answers to them (like this guy). Reductionist Western science isn't amazing at understanding if these holistic thinkers are full of crap or not. Certainly some of his ilk are snake oil salesmen, and some are visionaries. I *tend to distrust the ones who are selling the solutions. I tend to trust farmers and farmer-researchers who are describing what they're seeing, but aren't selling anything.

A lot of people I know have used their Bio5 reactor and are pretty happy with it. It's hard to know what sort of effect applying compost extract has on agroecosystems, because these are complex systems and the tools we use to measure soils are fairly crude. But I know producers who have stopped using nitrogen fertilizers entirely, and are applying this extract instead.

If you're interested in soil health in general, and learning about what you can do on whatever land you might be managing (including a garden plot or a yard), an excellent starting resource is NRCS's soil health principles, https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/soil/soil-heal.... If you are able to find ways to meet these principles in your context, that's like 80% of the battle. The rest will sort itself out. Or if you have more specific questions about other things these guys are schlepping, let me know and I can give you my two cents or point you towards more resources.

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Definitely give a shout if you have more questions. I'm biased but she's great at this. You can find some contact info for me in my bio.

You're right that there are competitors, but those competitors are doing the same thing: hoovering up content and then not giving anything back for it. There are deals in place for some of the largest publishers [2] [3], but that leaves a ton of content out in the cold. That's going to decrease the amount of content that's out there, which will decrease the quality of AI search. I don't know where that ends, but given how leveraged the economy is in AI it seems like a good idea for somebody to figure it out.

[1] https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/...

[2] https://futureweek.com/a-complete-list-of-publishers-strikin...

[3] https://digiday.com/media/a-timeline-of-the-major-deals-betw...

I think the parent's point is that Obsidian could add any tracking they wanted and -- unless you're examining their TOS or your network closely -- you might never know. However:

> Obsidian's business model is just selling the sync subscription service. There's no ads component to incentivize data collection/tracking and pissing off their entire customer base.

And that to me seems deeply infused into Obsidian's entire culture. They built a community and they're not gonna mess that up. And like you say, if they do it's trivial to move one's markdown somewhere else.

Not knocking this list, the shit is real. But I just had a lovely imaginary conversation with a server asking them what they would recommend and then trying something brand new.

I hope that this could be a starting point and not an end-point of Vaultwarden. It has gotten far on the shoulders of the Bitwarden giant. If it forked, would it have a large enough community to continue to carry that trust forward (including building new clients)? How much financial support would they need? Could they find a sponsor? It's a European project -- would the EU help fund it as a data sovereignty push?

You sound like "AI" is something people deserve for free when clearly, if you look at the garbage energy footprint alone, it's going to have to cost. Supporting it is going to have even more.

P.S. How can you "serve humanity" if you literally don't support the humans who use your stuff?

Also as the article states (referencing an HN comment):

> How should we realistically teach Susan from HR the difference between a real Google Captcha QR code and a malicious phishing QR code - you (realistically) can’t.

Susan from HR is the least of it. This is a huge vector to increase fraud, not decrease it.

How would an ethical, competent engineer argue against this?

The CAPTCHA company who put this out might have an agenda, but also since they're in the industry they might also have knowledge to impart.

We're reaching an inflection point with the oligarchies where the old ideas of "writing a blistering editorial" or "calling your congress-critter" need to be seriously questioned as useful and other non-violent methods of recapturing digital freedom need to be entertained.

That checks out. I think what I have is similar to a graphics card but isn't quite.

That's why it can't just be school. It needs to be a societal thing that goes beyond schools to all the other places people get socialized and learn. I mean maybe churches, social groups, and families are all teaching the willful ignorance you're talking about, but if they are that's what needs to change. People need to hear the same thing from different places before they'll believe it sometimes.