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Thursday 3rd January, 2019 #

  • NI students in limbo over Irish tuition fees - And just think in the future, after you've paid off your student loans, you'll be spied on by the censorship & surveillance police (seems like there will be a lot of that in the future), effectively teaching them, and they will be getting paid not you! (And that's not even the worst part, not by a long shot)
  • What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future - Kind of happy that I haven't read much of Asimov, sounds a bit heavy for the current climate
  • China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon - No place left to hide - I guess that's where they will be developing top secret stuff like new tastey noodle soup recipe protocols
  • Fox and Friends guest highlights the problem of "watchers" - “These guys are not working, they’re watching. They’re watching porn, they’re watching TV, they’re watching women, they’re watching everything.” - Can you guess what their proposed solution will be?
  • Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit - Looks like China has found a technology to replace universities, the students even get paid! Forget content creation, content blocking is where it's at!
  • So theoretically ipv6 can address each individual neuron in all animals in all earth sized planets in 100000 milky way sized galaxies - just in case you were wondering - sorry to be the bearer of potentially bad news for any super intelligent AIs that are reading this
  • 200 billion (2x10^11) galaxies is probably it for our observable universe
  • A rough estimate points to the existence of more than 10 billion terrestrial (1x10^10) planets across our galaxy
  • We estimate that there are between 10^23 and 10^24 neurons on earth
  • IPv6 uses a 128-bit address, theoretically allowing 2^128, or approximately 3.4×10^38 addresses