- Column: The Bezos-Branson-Musk space race is a huge waste of money and scientifically useless https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-06/jeff-bezos-richard-branson-elon-musk-space-race 121 comments politics
- Firefox has a few pixels' worth of useless space above my tabs, and it's driving me crazy. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6n3up3/firefox_has_a_few_pixels_worth_of_useless_space/ 7 comments firefox
- Vitalik: "Rollups will not become useless for a long time. The current proposed implementation of sharding is just data sharding, meaning that you would not be able to have txs “directly” on the shards; rather, the shards would just be data space so that rollups could have much higher scalability." https://ethresear.ch/t/cross-rollup-nft-wrapper-and-migration-ideas/10507/8 7 comments ethereum
- James Webb Space Telescope has 180 non explosive actuators that help to deploy the sun shield, if even one of those actuators fail, the whole telescope will be useless. https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/704078.pdf 83 comments space
- [Fabrizio Romano] Steve Bruce to @lukeedwardstele : “I think it might be my last job. It has been very, very tough. To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail & saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a tactically inept cabbage head” https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1450762439541284871 5 comments soccer