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Jason Livesay: Tiny Villages – Horizontally Scaling Society

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Tiny Villages: Horizontally Scaling Society

Cloud computing is about horizontally (as opposed to vertically) scaling systems. Instead of building one super-powerful server, you create many inexpensive servers that each contain a small part of the system. There are multiple advantages to “scaling out” rather than “scaling up”, such as incrementally improved capacity with little or no downtime and less expensive, more maintainable servers.

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Gareth Evans: How to Rid the World of Genocide

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Gareth Evans

How to rid the world of genocide

Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. Need a primer? Catch up here.

Gareth Evans, a former Australian foreign minister and president of the International Crisis Group, co-chaired the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which initiated the R2P concept.  Read full article.

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Genocide @ Phi Beta Iota

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CounterPunch: Blood Traces – Bernie’s Iraq War Hypocrisy

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counterpunch squareBlood Traces: Bernie’s Iraq War Hypocrisy

Sanders supported Bill Clinton’s war on Serbia, voted for the 2001 Authorization Unilateral Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), which pretty much allowed Bush to wage war wherever he wanted, backed Obama’s Libyan debacle and supports an expanded US role in the Syrian Civil War. More problematic for the Senator in Birkenstocks is the little-known fact that Bernie Sanders himself voted twice in support of regime change in Iraq.

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Berto Jongman: CIA & NATO Faked Russian Subs Against Sweden, with Swedish Military Collaboration

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Berto Jongman

CIA, NATO and Swedish military plotted regime change in Sweden in the 1980s.

‘Heroes’ and victims of 80’s US disinformation provide clues to today’s Russian scare

  • To win the cold war President Ronald Reagan formed a secret ‘deception committee’ for a disinformation campaign against the USSR

  • On several occasions ‘disinformation’ put the world on the brink of nuclear war

  • The ‘Soviet’ U-boat scare that shook Sweden in the 80s was caused by US and UK subs that penetrated Swedish territorial waters disguised as Russian ones

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Open Data Institute: Unlocking Value

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ODI LogoODI: Over £40m* value unlocked worldwide

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has announced that the total value it has helped unlock to the open data ecosystem has exceeded £40m in the three years since it opened. This includes direct income, grants and competition funding, incubated ODI Startup income and the ODI Node franchise network. Also today, the company confirmed that five new startup businesses, and four new franchise nodes will join and that its membership programme has topped 350 participants, including the Co-op and Ocado. The ODI was founded by Sirs Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt in 2012. Its mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data.

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