Medicalxpress is a subsidiary of the more known https://phys.org/ which is a decades-old aggregator of published material containing innovative studies and engineering techniques. They write their own summaries in an AP/Reuters style but with more quantified detail and less exaggeration than the usual pop media and university PR pieces. A bit like Quanta Magazine, great for keeping tabs on new findings with clear and consistent hyperlinks to the source material.
Those early tokens aren't necessarily immutable, they still could be "edited" depending on UI. Human conversation and even internal compositional cogitation is full of "what I meant by that" or "on second thought" type clarifications and corrections. Sometimes these aren't verbosely disclaimed, there's body language involved. Likewise there could be occasional lookback parsing and later blocks could convey modifications. The UI can then highlight those revisions transparently by applying strikethrough styling, coloration, dotted underline with tooltip on hover, etc.
Like we've seen with human interactions and media, this may be susceptible to misinterpretation by the reader or listener, especially via second-hand clips or screenshots lacking full context. But if the UX is clean and speedy it would be less likely.
I'm reminded of the Physics of Language Models[1] where they showed a standatd autoregressive LLM got a lot more accurate if the models got access to the backspace key, so to speak.
Labour Party was elected six months ago. It is doubling down on existing government surveillance policy as a cure-all weapon to investigate and chill opposition, and to humble foreign tech companies.
In this case yes - everything went by the design and law of the underlying code. There was no exploited bug or vulnerability flaw besides human laziness here.
1) Their multi-signature wallet signing employees lazily clicked through in unison to approve a new smart contract without examining the contents to see if it was unusual.
2) Bad security architecture to keep too much in a single wallet that wasn't properly kept cold. There should have been a few fully cold wallets, that only rarely transact with mostly-cold intermediary "airlock" wallets which are also separated from the exchange operations and wallets. The signers also need to be different combinations of people for each of those wallets - preferably some of those signers being additionally liable 3rd party technical experts.
This is a polemic that fills every paragraph with name-calling and fear-mongering over “Christian fascists”. It is not intellectually interesting and does not belong on HN.
There is no cluster at 150 in the underlying data though, there's even distribution among unrealistically high age ranges. This is yet another case of people taking partisan telephone game conjecture literally.
> There is no cluster at 150 in the underlying data though, there's even distribution among unrealistically high age ranges.
Is that so? How do you know? Afaik that data is confidential and access is highly restricted. Or are you saying that that's what Elon said and we should take his word for it?
> This is yet another case of people taking partisan telephone game conjecture literally.
Pre-Aquisition Twitter
$5 billion revenue
$682 million EBITDA
2024 X
$2.7 billion revenue
$1.25 billion EBITDA
Last week Alwaleed bin Talal a longtime Twitter and X investor said his holdings have held value after the acquisition and he considers it in the process of doubling. Some banks also reported selling their debt in 2024 for 97 cents on the dollar.
While this is true, (and I don't want to try to be politically neutral here), if we look at Elon's enormous increase in power and also significant increase in wealth, it would definately be positive ROI for him.
He went through a lot of stress thought being leveraged in the stock market crash.
There is still a sensible positive interpretation. It's possible that the distortionary economic and geopolitical effects of this spending both domestically and abroad has just as severe or worse negative externalities as items with larger budgets. Those externalities could range from inflation, displacing local industries and organic fundraising mechanisms, enabling rent-seeking corruption, overproduction of idle elites, instilling self-crit degrowth ideation, and political polarization/backlash abroad (My Japanese relatives now have a very dim view of Rahm Emanuel and Biden due to their USAID type activities and strings-attached diplomacy of paternalistic progressive cultural imperialism).
A reverse Keynesian effect you could call it - where there are second-order deadweight loss effects from "NGO" grift make-work complex, rather than a synergy.
