Saturday, October 14
Daily News Stuff 14 October 2023
Corporate Slave Cabbage Edition
Update: Oof.
Corporate Slave Cabbage Edition
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- NASA has just launched its Psyche mission, an aptly named probe to explore the asteroid Psyche. (Ars Technica)
Sent into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy - and in fairness, it's much better for NASA to build just the spacecraft and leave the launches to private industry - the mission is expected to total $1.4 billion between the craft, the launch vehicle, and eight years of operations.
The estimated value of the minerals on Psyche itself is in the range of $10 quintillion. That's 400,000 years of the US GDP, or about 7 trillion times the cost of this mission.
Say what you will about government waste; this one would appear to be justified.
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- Twitter has started to flag explicit pornography as explicit pornography. Here's why that's a bad thing. (Tech Crunch)
Talk to the hand.
- Clinical trials at the Sheep Hilton show that Vitamin C is a safe and effective treatment for sepsis in humans. (Florey)
Researchers at Australia's Florey Institute - the aforementioned Sheep Hilton - have shown that sodium ascorbate - Vitamin C - is effective at treating clinical cases of sepsis.
You just need to inject it directly into your veins.
Better than the alternative, and it gives your blood a refreshing citrusy tang.
- Untergruppenfuhrer Thierry "Klaus" Breton has turned his fiery gaze from Twitter to YouTube. (The Verge)
Probably because Twitter ignored him.
By the way, Klaus, antibiotics will clear that right up.
- Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act? (The Register)
Sure. Easy peasy. Null-route the entire useless continent.
Maybe offer exceptions for Poland and Hungary.
Not Even Remotely Tech News
The referendum for "The Voice", a bid to enshrine racism into the constitution of Australia, was held today.
It went worse than I could ever have hoped.
It needed to win a majority of the vote nationwide plus a majority of states to pass.
It seems to have lost in every single state - even communist Victoria.
It went worse than I could ever have hoped.
It needed to win a majority of the vote nationwide plus a majority of states to pass.
It seems to have lost in every single state - even communist Victoria.
Update: Oof.
Also, Aussie Jacinta (Price) - a conservative Aboriginal Senator - is infinitely preferable to Kiwi Jacinda (Ardern). I hope to see her Prime Minister some day.
Disclaimer: Perhaps in exchange for some of those little pancakes?
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I knew an IV guy who before the corona freakout believed that he literally had a cure for coronavirus and rhinovirus, that included vitamin C in the IV cocktail.
He just did not believe that it was cost effective for what it did.
One of those things where you would have to first trust me in order to believe relative to the claims made by experts.
As opposed to all of those indictments of the experts that stand whether or not you trust me.
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