#35 Daily Tech: A mystery rocket crashed into the moon

A mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up

NASA scientists are baffled by a mystery spacecraft that crashed into the moon, creating two large craters.

Reddit moderators do $3.4 million worth of unpaid work each year

Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue.

Learning a technical subject

I love learning. I wanted to write about how I learn, so I can analyze if there is a method to this madness. I will first talk about what my learning process looks like in abstract terms, and then I'll give an analogy to make things more concrete and visual.

Tesla reportedly doesn’t have enough desks after Musk threatens to fire remote employees

Remote Tesla employees who were forced to return to work or face losing their jobs reportedly came back to the office to find nowhere to park their cars or sit.

Why didn't Gandalf own a Colt .45?

“What a stupid question,” you say, “This is just a work of fiction, it doesn’t need to conform to your standards of ‘realism’ and, even if it did, it’s set during the equivalent of the middle ages, of course they don’t have guns.” Well, smart ass, first of all everything absolutely does have to conform to my unnecessary standards, you philistine. Second, you would think it’s the middle ages, but human society has actually been around in Middle Earth about as long as it has in ours. Weird right?

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