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1. Quote of the Week

To clarify my point further, although M doesn't care about how it's implemented, the implementation has a strong influence on the logical structures that it's trying to implement. In a normalized or demoralized [sic] debate, a fully normalized physical schema is always good, when implemented on an infinite performance hardware. --LinkedIn.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?
I recently attended a presentation on Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft's NoSQL cloud product. I made the following notes:

• Polyglot persistence: Wasn't this what the RDM was supposed to substitute? 
• Hierarchy: Didn't we get rid of HDM decades ago?
• NoSQL: No SQL, but a "SQL-like" language (it's barely relational and now it's used for documents?)
• No integrity, data independence: Nothing learned from the past.
• Cloud: At least mainframes were under each company's control.

Progress.

3. Online Debunkings

Comments on "Michael Stonebraker Explains Oracle’s Obsolescence, Facebook’s Enormous Challenge"

4. Interesting Elsewhere

Unskilled and Unaware of It

5. And now for something completely different

Brin: Write a contract to sell my soul to the devil

A Freudian slip? 

The PostWest  

Want to understand why the West systematically loses against its enemies? e.g.

• Iran vows nuclear enrichment 'without limits' unless sanctions end
• Top Obama adviser dismisses idea that better Iran deal is possible
• Comparing Oslo (1993) and Lausanne (2015)

Read this:  The Blackmailer Paradox! The enemy gets this Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question but the West does not.

Back in my old country we'd say "They pee on you and you pretend it's raining".

Obaminations

• Israel analysts shocked by Obama's comments on sanctions, S-300 supply
• Unmasking the real Obama doctrine
• Obama: IS A-Q have slick videos peaceful Imams are boring
• Obama meets Castro, but not Netanyahu

The Oldest, Only Acceptable Hatred

• World has not learned lessons of holocaust
• Recorded attacks against Jews surged 40 percent in 2014
• Holocaust education prepares for era without eyewitnesses

Looks like even with eye-witnesses it has not been very effective.

Let's Give Them a State

• Man killed, woman injured in suspected Jerusalem terror attack
• Sniper fire from Gaza as part of Hamas’ massive buildup for next war
• Palestinian arrested for attempt to stab soldier in Hebron 

This week's video

• Muslims threw Christians overboard during Med voyage
• 1 in 4 UK Muslims Violence okay over Muhammad images

but Islam has nothing to do with Islam
 
This week's book

A New History of Life