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Isaac

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Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« on: November 26, 2014, 10:03:08 am »

"…AWS probably has somewhere between 2.8 million and 5.6 million servers across its infrastructure."

(Adobe Creative Cloud is hosted on Amazon Web Services.)
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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2014, 08:56:46 pm »

 :-[Does it make this world less brutal , less exploitative, or less inhumane?

"The essence of technology is nothing technological."

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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2014, 09:04:23 pm »

:-[Does it make this world less brutal , less exploitative, or less inhumane?

No, but at least we can photoshop it so  :P

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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2014, 11:14:33 pm »

Does it make this world less brutal , less exploitative, or less inhumane?

If you use it to make this world less brutal, less exploitative, less inhumane.
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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2014, 05:59:54 am »

That was interesting. Tanks for the link. Did not know they were building their own hardware.

I live close to one of the facebook datacenters. Two (out of planned three) giant buildings. When complete they will consume 1% of Swedens electric power. The numbers are mind-boggling.
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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2014, 08:41:24 pm »

No, but at least we can photoshop it so  :P

What that gives us is even faker than fake. Progress!
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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2014, 08:43:03 pm »

If you use it to make this world less brutal, less exploitative, less inhumane.


How do you do that?


"Karl Marx, who knew quite a bit about the human tendency to fall down and worship our own creations, wrote Das Kapital in an attempt to demonstrate that, even if we start from the economists’ utopian vision, so long as we also allow some people to control productive capital, and, again, leave others with nothing to sell but their brains and bodies, the results will be in very many ways barely distinguishable from slavery. "

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,  Chapter Eleven, “Age of the Great Capitalist Empires”
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Re: Massive Scale of Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing)
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2014, 12:58:06 pm »

Given cynicism and futility how do we do anything.

One pixel at a time  ;)
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