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Notes on new technology, the businesses built on it, and the claims made for both.
A Startup Says It Turned Mercury Into Gold. Harvard Did That in 1941.
On October 21 a 28-person San Francisco company announced it had beaten CERN's gold-production record tenfold using fusion neutrons. The published evidence is one gamma spectrum. Here is what the thread claims, what the spectrum can and cannot show, and what the company's own paper says still stands between that spectrum and a tonne of gold.
Seven Years Ago Today, LJM Partners Lost 80% in Two Days
A Chicago firm that had sold stock-market insurance for twenty years lost more than 80% of its clients' money in two trading days. What it was betting on, why the bet broke, and what regulators say investors were never told.