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TwoFactor | 2 years ago | 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 | 2 years ago | 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 | 6 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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 | 8 years ago | 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.
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