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Re:Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:26PM (#25131695)

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

Re:Prediction Markets Beat Polls on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:01PM (#25131544)

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.

Re:Asteroid Bennu may be hollow, according to a new study on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:42PM (#25098043)

this is not Reddit

Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:21PM (#25040073)

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

Re:Fact Checking on Vote Claims Going Viral on Social Media on Friday November 06, 2020 @10:32PM (#25013044)

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

Re:Cracking the knuckles is probably harmless on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:07PM (#24821142)

does this paper account for the externalities?

Re:Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (2018) on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:01AM (#24604557)

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

Re:FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through ... on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:21PM (#24535427)

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.

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Re:Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:38PM (#24438335)

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

Re:Family instability fuels rising nihilism among young men on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:34PM (#24438315)

Did you grow up in a city?

Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal s... on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:04AM (#24405091)

> 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.

Re:FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf] on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:34PM (#24237589)

link is broken now.

Re:Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:16AM (#24117104)

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.

Re:Tracking Pico Balloons Using Ham Radio [pdf] on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:25PM (#23803839)

http://leobodnar.com/balloons/