Things I learned lately 14 Sep

• Edmonton installed noise level sensors, some of which had LED displays showing decibel levels. That led to a competition from drivers trying to get high readings to display. The city has since disabled the displays.
• The author of 'How to murder your husband' was arrested for murdering her husband.
• The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is supported by about 200 friction piles that go 45m deep into the earth and are 1.5 m in diameter.
• The Burj Khalifa has a restaurant, the At.Mosphere, on the 122nd floor. Because it's so high, it can't use natural gas, so it uses a Spanish charcoal oven.
• 233,698 rail cars of crude oil per year are required to make up for each oil pipeline not built.
• Elon Musk has essentially said that the 3 Laws of Robotics (or AI for that matter) that was showcased in Isaac Asimov's science fiction books doesn't actually exist. Those famous rules that protect humans from AI and protect AI from humans have never been formally adopted by anyone. And the problem is that the only people with the authority to get to understand where AI capability is, and what needs to be done to prevent it from getting out of our control, don't feel the need to do anything right now. Of course, Elon thinks this is bad and that people need to start working on this now, because AI is going to become smart enough for us to have to deal with this topic sooner than most people expect. The biggest reason governments need to be proactive in this realm is that technology advances far faster than governments can react to those advancements.
• 2 underground nuclear bomb blasts were set off in Mississippi in the mid 1960s.
• New Zealand has banned foreigners from buying property there. There's a housing crisis believed to be caused by Chinese investors, which have driven up prices. Australians, and people from Singapore are exempt from the ban. New Zealand is being perceived as a good place to escape to if the world 'changes'.
• In South Korea, they sell a banana-a-day 5 pack (pictured), where each banana is a different ripeness, so you can eat one each day at the optimal ripeness.
• Heineken is developing marijuana infused drinks, as are most beer and alcohol makers. I'd like a Heineken Blackberry Kush please.....
• In related news, Corona just invested $4 billion in the Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth.