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ECA_staxon Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB

Hopefully, once they get acquired, they'll be forced to change it

ECA_staxon Prediction Markets Beat Polls

lack of trust of polling. also there are risks of outing oneself as a Trump supporter in blue areas outweigh the risks of outing oneself as a Biden supporter in red areas.

ECA_staxon Asteroid Bennu may be hollow, according to a new study

this is not Reddit

ECA_staxon Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

What did you mean by swt? Surely you are not making fun of Islam in a completely unrelated thread.

ECA_staxon [dead]

Take note of the party all of these erroneous vote claims came from.

ECA_staxon Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless

does this paper account for the externalities?

ECA_staxon Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (2018)

this is a much more depressing number. steel and cement are necessary to the development of all nations, designer clothes are not.

ECA_staxon FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

The ICIJ and ProPublica consistently put out the highest quality investigative journalism, exposing injustices committed by some of the biggest institutions in the world. Blows mainstream media out the water.

I strongly recommend users here to donate to both, and even to cancel subscriptions to major media institutions, who have opted to dropped investigative journalism for sensationalism.

[1] https://checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org_id=icij&i...

[2] https://donate.propublica.org/give/141278/#!/donation/checko...

ECA_staxon Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men

Sorry, I don't know where I was going with this. You'll have to excuse me.

ECA_staxon Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men

Did you grow up in a city?

ECA_staxon Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly

> Population growth hasn't been the problem for decades.

Of course it is. Populations always eventually demand development, aka "westernization". So as the world population grows, so does the consumption.

ECA_staxon FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf]

link is broken now.

ECA_staxon Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech

please don't ever assume bad faith on this site. I'm from Canada, so the 2S throws off a lot of Americans. 2S is two-spirited and comes from Indigenous culture.

ECA_staxon Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf]

http://leobodnar.com/balloons/