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Fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of extreme-scale computing and the role of key/value servers
If you wonder what a key/value server is and why they are increasingly important, watch this video. It also provides insight into extreme-scale computing environments from the perspective of a brilliant engineer. The video is here: infoq.com: Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level The slides are unfortunately off-screen in the video, but…
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Hilary Clinton just pissed on California and on democracy
The oligarchy-manipulated Big Media is running a story – a “headline” – the day before the primary election in California – that Hilary Clinton has won the primary. What an appalling outrage. It is spitting in the face of every Californian and pissing on American democracy. What could be more disrespectful to the millions of…
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You *have* to try this ASAP: Virtual Reality Headset!
Ok, so yesterday I had some extra time and was just browsing around in a Best Buy store as I sometimes like to do. With the pace of change in technology, even if I’m not actively looking to get something, I still like to see what all the latest stuff is and try things out.…
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SOL: Extract the mp3 audio from a YouTube (or other) video file
This is part of my Simple One-Liners (SOL) series of useful commands. Today I would like to discuss an easy way, using the command line and the extremely powerful tool ffmpeg to extract the audio track from a YouTube or other video. First, to actually get the video file from YouTube, I highly recommend the…
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Cancer.
In Vancouver, house owners earned more sitting on their assets than everyone did by actually working last year Rising land value of single family homes earned owners about C$25billion in 2015 in Vancouver, exceeding all employment earnings in the city, according to mathematician Jens von Bergmann source: South China Morning Post This cancer, this betrayal…
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(Update v.4) Basic Voting Guide for June 7
The election is tomorrow Tuesday, June 7. This is not a complete guide. I plan to update it later with more information. But for now here is one general guideline for how I am voting and how I encourage everyone to vote. Here is a basic synopsis of how to vote: Nancy Pelosi: HELL NO!…
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What happened to the energy?
Before, it was so different. People could come here and live. You didn’t have to be wealthy. You didn’t have to be working professionally. You could just come. And make it. And the city was supposed to offer some promise. If you wanted education you could pursue it. If you wanted jobs you could find…
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Another Clinton mega-lie exposed bare
This story is actively being blocked out from the media. The oligarchy is in action again. You can witness it right now – by the story’s absence. It was given initial widespread exposure, because there was simply no way for Big Media not to, but only after a couple days it has disappeared from the…
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Self-inflicted brain damage rankings by US state
Ok no one has yet compiled a state-by-state ranking of self-inflicted brain damage for the United States, but if someone had, my guess is that it would be fairly close to these rankings: wallethub.com: 2015’s States with the Best and Worst School Systems In particular, my intuition is that the ranking for “safety” in the…
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Western Civilization Once Reached This Point Before Inflicting Itself with Brain Damage
Once again we have self-inflicted brain-damage occurring in our society, led by disgustingly inept, ignorant, corrupt, and greedy politicians, a government that is an oligarchy, and a fucked-up society driven by the lowest-common-denominator effect that sinks ever lower. See 32’08” in the video below, then go back and watch the entire episode: The Alexandria of…