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by adamsea 2612 days ago
Hi Jude,

On your page you said "If an extremely niche topic is valuable to just a handful of people and positively contributes to society, it will have a home on Golden."

Who will make that judgement call of what "contributes to society", and who will be paying their salary?

You also said "We believe this advanced query tool is extremely useful for investment funds, large consultancies and large companies, so please get in touch if you want to experience one of the best query tools out there."

That sounds great but its a far cry from "human knowledge". There wasn't much about advanced query tools for academics, nonprofits, activists, or government employees.

Sorry to be so cynical but one can only hear so much of "making the world a better place", to quote Silicon Valley.