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Re:Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:11PM (#46649733)
This seems like a leftover from the old enterprise licenses. I will see if we can get that changed.

We'll be happy to be part of Clickbench. Reach out to me and we can work together to make it happen.

Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:20AM (#25453960)
Wacom does make a special 6 DOF pen for use with VR: https://developer.wacom.com/en-us/wacomvrpen
Re:A case for ending lockdown on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:53AM (#23029496)
> The main thing that gives me some doubt is it seems plausible that we'll retroactively find that the deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 were somewhat overstated, in the sense that my understanding is a presumed COVID-19 diagnosis is accepted in lieu of having a positive test.

Looking at the total number of excess deaths (for all causes, ignoring if it is COVID-19 or not), I would say that it looks more likely that it is severely undercounted.

You can find the graphs here: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest (look for excess mortality rates for New York City).

I guess you could argue that the huge increase in deaths was caused by side-effects of the lockdown, but that does not really jive with the results from countries like Denmark, which did an early and hard lockdown, and as result show almost no extra mortality.

Individuals reducing their carbon footprint by reducing consumption is all good, but it is really a drop in the bucket in the big picture. I would be worried that focusing on that could be counter-productive with a higher chance of making people either feel that they have "done their part" (if they have personally done these minor reductions) or induce general apathy over the fact that the only way forward is to reduce your quality of living while knowing that it won't make any real difference anyway.

If we really want to make a change we have to focus on big picture solutions. Instead of being against, we need to focus on what we want to move towards.

The only way to reduce our dependency on carbon fuels within a realistic timeframe is an aggressive rollout of renevable energy like wind and solar, _and_ nuclear. If we were really serious about this, we would do massive investments in nuclear, building lots of new plants and also stepping up the research in technologies like molten salt and thorium based reactors.

If we should take to the street and demonstrate, it should be _for_ actual solutions like that, rather than _against_ minor things that don't make much of a difference anyways.

There is a very comprehensive overview of math support in the different flavors of Markdown here: https://github.com/cben/mathdown/wiki/math-in-markdown

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