Personally, I love this theory. The thought of natural assembly and selection at the level of Black Holes is alluring. Not sure what The Black Mirror Hypothesis (https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/when-you-fall-into-a-bl...) would have to say about this, though.
I've been calling out the similarity of works done by Barbour, Turok, Farnes & Petit for a long time, and the last developments by Turok's team vindicate this intuition. It is now very close to Jean-Pierre Petit's Janus model. Curt Jaimungal announced he'd interview him soon.
They were one of the earliest to adopt bitcoin and monero payments--if they didn't convert all those payments immediately to cash, they're probably sitting pretty right now.
They also have a partnership with Tailscale that can't be undersold.
I'm not sure how much it adds to their bottom line for each sale, but my corp was using the Mullvad VPN addition to tailscale to do global testing by our developers.
IE; "is something blocked, do we detect GEOIP properly" etc;
> there's definitely been a lottery win or a series A
We have neither won the lottery nor taken on outside investment. We've been growing for years, and we've reached a point where we can afford campaigns like this. It is an interesting experiment by our marketing team. Still, I think people on HN overestimate the cost of campaigns like this.
The National Library of Scotland has an impressive web tool that allows you to overlay detailed historical Ordnance Survey (OS) maps (dating back to 1841 for this instance) onto modern satellite imagery. The interface lets you adjust transparency and blend between past and present landscapes.
