Data centers contain 90% crap data
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I don't see one unless our society because less dependent on bullshit and honors privacy. I don't know about anyone else but I constantly bullshit specifics about myself on line to dirty up any data collected on me.
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Thunberg's solution has always been "listen to the experts who have been screaming at you for 50 years." You don't have to be an expert to care about things or to want to listen to people who are experts.
"listen to the experts who have been screaming at you for 50 years."
That would be fine provided that it's done correctly and civilized. Which is my point. Raising awarness is fine.Throwing insults loudly left and right to raise awareness is not. It only makes you seem delusional and sheds a bad light on your cause. This allows climate change deniers to take advantage of that to further their agenda.
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sudo rm -rf /dataI’m imagining Data from Star Trek being deleted…
Captain, this is most illogical.
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He’s in the same bucket as Greta Thunberg. They just like to scream and blame people instead of providing practical solutions.
Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was "screaming" and "blaming people" when she was 11 years old.
She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions. Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.
Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was "screaming" and "blaming people" when she was 11 years old.
Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.
Fully agreed.
She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions
I disagree. I saw her speak and the reactions to some of her speeches. Her inflamatory and derogatory speeches did nothing more than help opponents of the energy transition. To give you an example, when asked about it during an interview Putin jumped at the opportunity to discredit the energy transition. While the public saw Great behaving like a petulant child during the speech, they then saw Putin speaking calmy, asking real questions like "How are poor nations going to transition when they need cheap fossils to sustain themselves?". They then take this bit and plaster it on every social media site. People see it and are inclined to take Putin's side since he appears more knowledgeable and in control of himself.
This is why I don't like activists like her and the author of this article. They do more harm than good by expressing themselves in such a violent manner.
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Deduplication is trivial when applied at the block level, as long as the data is not encrypted, or is encrypted at rest by the storage system.
If the storage all belongs to one machine, yes. If it's spread across multiple machines with similar setups that share a LAN, then you need to put in a little thought to make sure that there's only one copy for all machines, but it's still doable.
In this case, we're talking millions of machines with different owners, OSs, network security setups, etc. that are only connected across the Internet. The logistics are enough to make a hardened sysadmin blanch.
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"listen to the experts who have been screaming at you for 50 years."
That would be fine provided that it's done correctly and civilized. Which is my point. Raising awarness is fine.Throwing insults loudly left and right to raise awareness is not. It only makes you seem delusional and sheds a bad light on your cause. This allows climate change deniers to take advantage of that to further their agenda.
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Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was "screaming" and "blaming people" when she was 11 years old.
Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.
Fully agreed.
She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions
I disagree. I saw her speak and the reactions to some of her speeches. Her inflamatory and derogatory speeches did nothing more than help opponents of the energy transition. To give you an example, when asked about it during an interview Putin jumped at the opportunity to discredit the energy transition. While the public saw Great behaving like a petulant child during the speech, they then saw Putin speaking calmy, asking real questions like "How are poor nations going to transition when they need cheap fossils to sustain themselves?". They then take this bit and plaster it on every social media site. People see it and are inclined to take Putin's side since he appears more knowledgeable and in control of himself.
This is why I don't like activists like her and the author of this article. They do more harm than good by expressing themselves in such a violent manner.
Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change? To quote the late Sen. John McCain describing Russia as “a gas station masquerading as a country”. Putin's life and livelihood depend on continued world's unchecked consumption of fossil fuels. Putin has zero credibility on the subject. Why would anyone consider him an objective source?
While the public saw Greta behaving like a petulant child during the speech
You and I must have seen different speeches. Part of Thunberg's appeal was her eloquence in speech especially speaking truth to power. Here's part of 16 year old Greta Thunberg's speech in the UN:
"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.
"So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences."
I can't imagine a world where you're calling that "petulant". At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn't done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?
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Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change? To quote the late Sen. John McCain describing Russia as “a gas station masquerading as a country”. Putin's life and livelihood depend on continued world's unchecked consumption of fossil fuels. Putin has zero credibility on the subject. Why would anyone consider him an objective source?
While the public saw Greta behaving like a petulant child during the speech
You and I must have seen different speeches. Part of Thunberg's appeal was her eloquence in speech especially speaking truth to power. Here's part of 16 year old Greta Thunberg's speech in the UN:
"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.
"So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences."
I can't imagine a world where you're calling that "petulant". At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn't done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?
Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change?
I never said that. I said that to the general public he may appear as more credible based on his behavior when adressing the issue compared to Greta which would undermine environmental efforts. This is what I'm concerned about.
I can't imagine a world where you're calling that "petulant". At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn't done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?
Ok, usually I welcome debates, but I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this so I think it's better that we stop here. Before finishing off, I would like to clarify one more time that I'm not a climate change denier. I just don't like the way Greta and others like her operate since it's my belief that their aggressiveness undermines the movement and increases the risk of turning people into reactionaries. That's my opinion. I'm entitled to it just as much as you're entitled to your own.
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Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change?
I never said that. I said that to the general public he may appear as more credible based on his behavior when adressing the issue compared to Greta which would undermine environmental efforts. This is what I'm concerned about.
I can't imagine a world where you're calling that "petulant". At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn't done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?
Ok, usually I welcome debates, but I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this so I think it's better that we stop here. Before finishing off, I would like to clarify one more time that I'm not a climate change denier. I just don't like the way Greta and others like her operate since it's my belief that their aggressiveness undermines the movement and increases the risk of turning people into reactionaries. That's my opinion. I'm entitled to it just as much as you're entitled to your own.
I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this
I'm not angry. I'm shocked at your position though. I see your position as dismissive of someone who is actually doing something about the crisis she will inherit with the tiny fractional power she had before adulthood. She, and her generation, have no time for a timid approach. We're going to be long dead and she'll still be here trying to live through the mess we, and our parents, have cause her and everyone else her age.
so I think it’s better that we stop here.
Thats fine. I don't see a path to anything that would yield productive conversation from here.
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That depends on the problem.
I disagree w/ the author that storing blurry cat memes is what's "destroying our environment." Transportation is our biggest net polluter in terms of CO2, which is higher than all electrical generation combined. If we're want to solve CO2 emissions, we have to solve transportation, since that's the 500 pound gorilla in the room.
If we look specifically at datacenters, storage makes up a tiny fraction of the overall energy use. That article mentions that datacenters probably have a similar CO2 footprint as the aviation industry, which makes up about 2.5% of the world's carbon emissions, or about 10% of the total transportation emissions from the above link.
If the goal is to fix climate change, data centers are pretty far down the list in terms of priorities. Higher priorities are, roughly in this order:
- ground transportation - electrify or switch to something like hydrogen
- electrical power generation - this will directly reduce the impact of data centers, be part of 1, and solve a number of other issues
- residential heating - switch from fossil fuels to heat pumps for heating, which should be a relatively "drop-in" replacement and could save customers money
- industry - largely solved by 2, but there may need to be some shifts in certain types of production processes to reduce emissions
Changing anything about data centers is way down the list of priorities, and it'll be largely solved by something much higher up. So it's really the wrong target to attack.
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