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TwoFactor··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
Interesting that the price is only around $100 more than regular Ray-Bans
TwoFactor··on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
While there's certainly a lot of evidence that its not a superconductor, no one can make the definitive statement that this article does without testing the original sample.
TwoFactor··on Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
It is not true that all crypto companies are scams, and especially not true that all crypto executives belong in jail.
TwoFactor··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
The spikes for others sites aren't nearly as large - 100 reports vs 50,000 for reddit
TwoFactor··on Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature
The alternative is more likely - it becomes commoditized and many programs are offering it, so it would be strange for Adobe charge a premium for a baseline feature
TwoFactor··on Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT
Thats an interesting test. Here's what I got from ChatGPT:

---GPT-3.5---

Here are some words that end in "agi":

Strategy

Swarajya

Arthroplasty

Sialagogue

Podagric

Gynecology

Physiognomy

Ophthalmology

Esophagitis

Otalgia

--- GPT-4 ---

Here are some words that end in "agi":

Swaggy

Raggi

Magi

Gagi

Stagi

Please note that some of these words may not be commonly used or may be specific to certain dialects or regions.

TwoFactor··on Bulgarian law enforcement raids offices of cryptocurrency firm Nexo
The irony is also that a lot of the interest rates that were too good to be true last year are much more reasonable in the current environment.
TwoFactor··on Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
Do you have a source on this? I don't see anything in the news.
TwoFactor··on Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
It's interesting that those are all effectively monopolies on the talent. I wonder if that just counters the brain-drain the parent comment was referring to since high performers can't leave the union for a non-union role.
TwoFactor··on AxLang: Formally Verifiable Smart Contracts for the Ethereum Ecosystem
It's good to see people finally leveraging an existing language for secure smart contracts rather than develop a new one from scratch.
TwoFactor··on Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
I'm not sure that list is a fair way to determine an industry's profit per employee.

Law firms aren't allowed to form C corps, which limits their size and would keep them off that list. I would expect top law firms to be in those ranges in for profit per employee, but they're much smaller so it isn't a fair comparison.

2 of the top 6 in that list are in medicine.

TwoFactor··on Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India
Why would the Central Government want to stop excavation because its from the Sangam Era?
TwoFactor··on It can all go to zero
In that scenario there would likely be a fork of the software to do something like lower the hash power requirements and continue using the network.
TwoFactor··on Saudi Arabia detains 201 princes, businessmen in $100B corruption probe
The parties involved in the sealed indictments are actually leaked in the RSS feed.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rss_outside.pl

TwoFactor··on 'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
I'm definitely looking forward to where this research takes us. I'm curious if there have been any efforts to create a muon-like transmitter that would add more flexibility to the sensor system. Is there something about muons that prohibits this?
TwoFactor··on Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart
Some speculation - this trend would make sense if wage growth had stagnated, and the upper class earners are making more of their income from capital gains and other similar sources.
TwoFactor··on Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF
There was actually a dispute about a potential Cruise cofounder getting compensation for equity at the acquisition. They recently settled the lawsuit out of court [1]. I agree they have good leadership, but they're not without any lawsuits.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/car-startup-cruise-settles-le...

TwoFactor··on Tesla seeks to raise $1.5B to fund Model 3 production
Correct, suppliers etc are higher on the liquidity preference than debt. If something were to go wrong, its most likely that Tesla would get a soft landing (e.g acquisition by Toyota) that would pay debtors significantly more than equity holders, but doubtful it would be 100% of what is owed in that scenario.
TwoFactor··on Tesla seeks to raise $1.5B to fund Model 3 production
Debt holders (bonds) have a higher liquidity preference than equity (stocks) in the case of financial trouble. An oversimplified example being if Tesla was liquidated with $3B in assets, and $2B in debt, the debt holders would be paid $2B first and equity holders would split whatever was remaining.
TwoFactor··on IEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages
I had the same thought. It's surprising to me that R is above JavaScript.
TwoFactor··on Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check
That WSJ article is very interesting, and I haven't seen production costs broken down clearly like that before. It's curious that Saudi Arabia is listed as having $0 per barrel in the Gross Taxes chart even though there's a 20% royalty and 85% income tax on Aramco. I'm curious if that information wasn't know when the article was created, or if those fees are significantly different than export taxes from an accounting perspective.
TwoFactor··on Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
It's interesting that to a layman this seems like almost the exact opposite of what string theory proposes dimensionally. Holographic universe theory is stating there are effectively less dimensions, while string theory shows there could be significantly more.
TwoFactor··on How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100M
Click the "web" link under the article title, then click on the first result.
TwoFactor··on The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help
Click the "web" link under the article title, then click on the first result.
TwoFactor··on The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
Is it possible the map looks like that is because a lot of the people affected by the attacks left the afflicted areas, and the voters that remain are ones benefiting from the guerrillas?
TwoFactor··on Computer Vision Syndrome
How do you know it was computers and not just age in general?
TwoFactor··on ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
I tried googling the A.S. in Computer Information Sciences job placement rates and couldn't find anything. Do you have a link?
TwoFactor··on Krypton Abandons Ethereum-Based Blockchain After 51% Attack
Its scary how little the founder understands about proof of work, golang, or Ethereum. The geth issue that was patched 4 months ago had nothing to do with being 51% attacked.

There's no hashing power dedicated to the altcoin so it got attacked, and this is something that's been happing to POW altcoins for 6 years now. Its not clear how she ever expected the POW consensus to survive a 51% attack, and has not described how the Ethereum protocol has anything to do with the failure of her consensus algorithm. If she was on a bitcoin-based POW chain she would have had the same issues.

TwoFactor··on The DAO Hacker Is Getting Away
That's what is happening right now, but the currency exchange is happening on Poloniex, Kraken, etc, and the hashing power is following the exchange rate.
TwoFactor··on Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash
If the employees/common share holders are splitting say $1B, an employee's 1% is actually much more. It wouldn't be surprising to think the investor's preferred shares were ~50% of the equity or more, leaving the common shares with the remaining 50%. That employee's 1% is actually 2% of the remaining, so ~$20M using the numbers above.
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