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29 billion what? A loan? The price the US government is willing to pay for AIG? No, it has nothing to do with financial crisis. Last week Amazon reported a growth 30% in storage objects the last quarter, they went up from 22 billion objects to 29 billion objects. It is still a mystery how much total GB (gigabyte) or TB (terabyte) or PB (petabyte) they are storing for their customers. But they revealed that their peak load is 70.000 transactions per second. This is what virtualization looks like, HUGE economies of scale. (Their price plans offers reduced cost per GB for customers storing more than 500 TB!!!)
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
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Isbn-13: 9780300122237
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler...
