This forum has been decreasing in quality since its inception, currently hovering at not-quite-reddit and that's with an organic audience of tech-adjacent posters. It would turn into a smoking hole in the ground if it somehow caught worldwide attention.
You're a fish swimming in fragile water you fail to appreciate.
Those seven billion people aren't very good for the most part, and include a critical mass of spectacularly awful people. It turns out that public access forums calibrated for the small and self-selected community of mostly high quality internet pioneers aren't prepared to deal with 1000000x expansion of reachable audience. The Eternal September effect has been getting stronger ever since it's first been observed.
> This sort of thing concerns me. So if Wolf has a change of heart, suffers some sort of financial catastrophe, etc., then... the project just dies, and any project depending on them for a significant portion of their funding has a crisis?
> Still, though, privacy-wise: why should I trust this guy? I like what he says on the website, but I've never heard of him, and don't really know anything about him.
Do you prefer to use tech presented by opaque committees with institutional funding, but only if they also consist of people you're acquainted with?
Does it really? Some classes of crime have been narrowed down to the same 50 individuals. You can't model car break-ins as everybody in the area rolling the dice on getting a taste for breaking glass and grabbing things.
Unreasonable people can disagree on the exact threshold. Sometimes they decide that 10,000,000xers are out of reach, but gullible upper middle class schlubs like you and I are quite ripe for the looting.
Whoa, no need to get emotional. You're coming up with all these excuses and deflections against systematically consuming the benign and/or healthy canola oil. Why is that?
Yes, exactly! Science is a fantastic way to discover truths about reality and apply them to your own life. For example, putting 15 grams of canola oil in your daily breakfast cereal.
This is an ad for a startup that is hiring a "founding engineer" with a "competitive compensation package". Are you so excited about the mission that you'll work toward it for free, anon?