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There is a really interesting article that goes into the origin and modern development of the Mondragon Cooperative here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ellegriffin/p/mondragon-as-t…

Ted Turner also created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award, which was a half a million dollars literary prize for coming up with a book that offered “creative solutions to humani…

MariaDB also has MariaDB Exa, which is a real HTAP solution using Exasol for the analytical workloads: https://mariadb.com/products/exa/

Exasol is another MPP database that easily handles super-wide tables, and does all the distribution across nodes for you. It used to only be available for big enterprises, but now …

Sure, nobody is claiming that hunter gatherers were saints. Just because they lived in egalitarian clans, it doesn’t mean that they didn’t occasionally do bad things. But one key d…

> society is reverting back to factory settings of human history, which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth The word “always” is carryin…

It seems like a problem that will self-correct. If too expensive housing is keeping couples from having children, then population will decline, which will free up a lot of housing …

SQLGlot is amazing. In many ways it helps erase the differences and bridge between dialects. It is so useful for moving complex queries between platforms.

The original idea idea behind SQL was to create a language that looked like English and allowed regular users to express their queries in something that resembled natur Al language…

Bullying is such a hard problem. The only school system I have seen dealing with it effectively is the Sudbury Valley schools. There they have a Judicial Committee, composed of bot…

I usually start with PostGIS for single-node workloads and then switch to Exasol when I get to truly massive datasets (Exasol has a more limited set of spatial operators, but scale…

Exasol costs us a fraction of what we used to pay for Databricks, and that is even with us serving far more users than we used to do (from a data size perspective we are not at the…

> they were working 90% of their waking hours. their work was their lives. This is not true at all. A quick google for “hunter gatherer work hours” would tell you that they worked …

I agree that using a semantic layer is the best way to get better precision. It is almost like a cheatsheet for the AI. But I would never use one that forced me to express my queri…

We tested those, but none of them could reach the performance we needed, especially under high concurrent load (we have a large number of concurrent workloads). Exasol is just craz…

Do you support Exasol? In the current climate we don’t want to be too dependent on US cloud services, so we are moving our performance sensitive dwh workloads off Snowflake to Exas…

> Which she does because donations offset the taxes she owes. How would that work? You can only write off the amount you actually donate. Paying 100% to save 40% (or whatever your …

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. One of the few books where you look so differently at the world after reading it that you literally feel like a different person.

Yes. We saved ridiculous amounts of money (and made it a lot faster) by moving our analytics workloads from Snowflake to a few bare-metal nodes running Exasol. But it took months t…