There are about half a dozen small companies working on this but apparently the government is more interested in spending money on a company with zero experience with earth imaging. Dunno how I feel about the USG just putting all their eggs in Elon's batshit insane basket
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Don't use TikTok, don't really care too much either way, but watching this whole thing unfold is starting to open my eyes to the ways these companies can shape public opinion.
They're apparently sending notifications to people to contact their reps and it seems very likely that they're promoting content that advocates against the ban.
I'm not a fan of censorship or blocking internet services but TikTok really seems to trying to make a good case for it.
Depends on your model. If you believe in the movies, yeah, but that's not how the end of the world works. We've seen it with COVID, countless revolutions and wars, you'll probably still get up and go to work during the apocalypse, it will just suck more. Being able to help yourself and your community get through it will be extremely helpful.
Realistically you don't need a years worth of bucket food and a million rounds of ammo, this isn't Oregon trail. Having knowledge and experience is far more valuable. Learn how to properly clean and store water, how to live/travel day to day without a car (you have a bike right?), go backpacking and camping, potentially learn how to avoid surveillance if you think things are getting kinda judgemental.
Make friends with your neighbors, people don't actually become psychotic marauders when the power goes out. There are countless stories from hurricane Katrina where the police just assumed everyone would murder each other and ultimately got in the way of people just trying to help each other survive and rebuild.
Part of the issue is the whole thing smells weird.
Like they won't talk about their monetization strategy at all but they acknowledge that there will be one. They're trying to randomly apply crypto to something that's literally already the one proven blockchain tech, and they started at the height of the crypto token scam industry and it looks a lot like they're trying to suck up the last dregs of that cycle.
If you are hammering crypto into things that don't obviously need crypto you really need to justify it thoroughly. A relatively old company just hand waving all of it should raise all of the red flags.
They were shilling on HN too. People were getting frustrated because they were being incredibly evasive about their monetization strategy but, being HN, business model critiques were not well received...
This is all public info anyway but a 100hp plane someone built in their garage for less than the price of a new Tesla isn't the same as Elon's jet fleet.
This is already publicly available data. You can get the address of every private pilot and the tail number of every plane from the FAAs database right now. Additionally you can see where every flying aircraft is in the world right now. Kind of a nothingburger :/
Honestly it's probably the best search dataset in existence right now. You can make Google suck far less by appending "reddit" to most searches because you'll get results from a group consisting of a higher ratio of actual humans instead of bots.
Yeah reddit is shit, but the rest of the internet is 10x worse at this point. Pretty much any writing that isn't a labor of love on someone's personal page or users interacting with each other in a semi organic way is rapidly becoming 100% GPT vomit as every company in existence lays off their writing staff
Whoever bought this got a fucking bargain.
Yeah generally simper web pages are much better for people with accessibility issues. When everyone adds tons of weird JavaScript garbage on top then it's very hard to make tools that work reliably on the pages
From the POV of doing literally anything for the environment, yeah it's just trash. If we're going to bash websites for being overly complicated and costing their organizations millions a month on EC2 Bezos Bucks, making the web unusable for people with screen readers, password managers, RSS feeds, web archives etc then yeah, be my guest. Destroy it all.
That's because it's just marketing bullshit.
The worst person you've ever met came up with it in a very upscale cube farm over a chai latte, don't think too hard about it.
They likely would for the kind of stuff they're planning.