Sure, enclosing your antennas in a Faraday cage will block all harmful interference (and all other signals as well). Your shack on the other hand is not likely a source of RFI.

This just isn't true and can easily be verified by anyone looking at Google Earth. Outside of the cities and mountains, almost the entire island is covered in farms and ranches. There is almost no empty land that is not being used for agriculture. Just hop into google earth, zoom in to a mid-level and scroll around. Every large patch of "empty land" is nearly 100% covered with agriculture. The difference in "empty land" between the UK and Canada/USA is shocking. It's a small country with 10,000 years+ of civilization, no surprise that it's all in use.

They provide no real detail on their website, just "+13.6%" with no other data or information. Is that the Nominal price return? Nominal total return? With dividends reinvested? The annualized rate???? Without more detail it's not even possible to tell if they beat a blind investment into an S&P500 index fund. For reference, the same six month period the S&P500 did:

10.4% Nominal return
18.3% Annualized return
11.2% Return with dividends reinvested
19.8% Annualized with dividends

Smells like hype from dummies.

Late reply, but would you help me understand why the membrane in your example is not discrete?

It seems to me that any membrane that actually exists in our universe must be made up of discrete components and is therefore discrete itself. To extend your example, I may continue slicing holes in a pattern until I am left with a one-atom wide but very long strip. This can still be considered the same membrane, just in a different shape. It still has length and width as required for a plane or membrane (for loose definitions of width.) It still has the same total surface area. It now no longer has any holes(and weirdly only ever one hole as I cut) but exactly zero is still an integer. If I now cut the membrane in two (can't cut an atom in two halves) I have two discrete membranes. I can continue this until all membranes consist of two atoms only. The number of membranes is an integer. If I further divide each two-atom membrane, I am left with individual atoms and no membranes. Both are discrete integer quantities. It seem like any physically existing membrane (or any object) must be discrete. I know this is a simplified but long-winded descent into Max Planck's work but I'm wondering what I'm missing or not understanding.

OK, I did some math.

From their most recent Schedule 990 they had $62 million in income, $58 million in expenses with a net income/profit of $4 million.

Total expenses for the event itself, not including any wages, travel, insurance, legal costs, etc. was $18.1 million. With 80,000 attending, that is $227 per person to cover the basic cost of infrastructure.

Salaries and other compensation for employees was $26.6 million or 46% of all expenses.

Form 990 here: 990

The question then becomes is SpaceX profitable? As a private company they release limited information. Several reputable sources(WSJ, CNBC,MF, etc.) have done independent analysis and determined that SpaceX became profitable in 2024 with some losses in 2022 & 2023. This is including the massive losses around developing Starbase, Super Heavy & Starship. Without those losses it is likely they would have wildly profitable the last three years. Informed speculation is that the current prices are in fact high relative to cost. When a competitor has a compelling alternative we are likely to see sudden and significant price reductions, perhaps a loss leader then.

I feel that most of this misses the intention. It is easy to get caught up in the edge cases, in the you vs. a powerful State actor... This is not reality, the vast majority of first world users (the reality of what we are talking about here) are not trying to hide anything from the CIA or the State, they don't want Hilton to snoop their porn browsing on the hotel wifi, they want some additional privacy from simple snooping and tracking at Starbucks. A VPN combined with some simple anti-tracking measures accomplishes this and at a low cost, in time and money. The day is coming soon with DNS over TLS and the like when VPN's won't matter as much but there will always be software that communicates in the open that some people want to hide.

What you are saying is true if you really need to hide from the CIA. I don't and neither do you(I hope).

Yeah, it's an oddly comforting sensation to see a part of the web long gone by. The heady optimism and joy of those early days were potent and infectious. It was a new world, a better world if we would only build it. We've come so far but some days.... some days I miss it more than I should.

YNAB has done more to reduce anxiety and worry in my life than any other piece of software ever. It has helped me to be debt free, to build wealth and have financial security. If you worry about money or how you make your finances work, take 10 minutes and check it out.

There are still dozens of us!! Mostly genX though so we don't really care about any of this nonsense.

Outstanding information! Thank you for sharing all of this. Saving for future reference.

Except it is 100% true: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

These were farmers with paid local workers, not plantations with slaves. The local workers were also forced off the land and murdered. You are completely wrong. Stop spreading your racist nonsense.Facts are facts.

The numbers are easy to find. In 2020 agriculture was 2.7% of Utah state GDP: https://economic-impact-of-ag....

It's much the same throughout the West. Agriculture is a massively inefficient user of water. This big-ag firms are only profitable because they have century old "claims" to senior water rights. There are many, many farmers each with rights to 200,000+ acre-feet of water for FREE from their local streams and rivers. For free!! These senior water rights make no sense in our modern world and must be terminated.

Except the jobs things is just not true. In California agriculture contributes 2-3% to the State GDP including related fields yet uses 80% of the available water. That is just ridiculous. You are very right about "big ag" controlling politicians though. If we the people of the state had any sense we would simply curtail 5% of agriculture. Residential water use is about 4.5% of the total.

You seem to be very well informed on this topic. A question I have is will indoor or vertical farming ever be calorie-dense enough? I have seen a few articles that indicate that current indoor farming only efficiently produces low calorie foods such as lettuce, tomatoes, micro-greens, etc. Our staple food crops, rice, wheat, corn, legumes, potatoes, sugar (sugar beets/cane) are very calorie dense but not suitable for indoor farming.

Is this true?

Do you see a future with high calorie indoor farms able to actually provide a full day's caloric needs?

I would appreciate your thoughts.