Submissions by mjirv

Cloud data specialist Snowflake picks new CEO

Running Fast Interactive Queries on Petabyte Datasets with Presto (2016) [video]

Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances: Evidence from One Million Europeans

How did home cooking become a moral issue?

2019 Cloud BI and Analytics Predictions [pdf]

A Letter to Steven Pinker and Bill Gates about Global Poverty

A gamer spent 200 hours making a perfect San Francisco in Cities:Skylines

If you want to be massively successful, do not set ambitious goals

Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose [video]

Science confirms it: People are not pets

The case against colonizing space to save humanity

The Hope at the Heart of the Apocalyptic Climate Change Report

No more messy data: what to do when your data doesn't match

Geoengineering is the Future

Things Worth Doing

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That

Saving the planet doesn't mean killing economic growth

Why growth can't be green

A social wealth fund for America

Private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans

The Rise of Bullshit Jobs