[Links of the Day] 26/06/2018 : How economist got Brexit wrong, Driving data set, CRDT @ redis

• How the economics profession got it wrong on Brexit : Economist got the economy wrong... News at 11 .. Anyway, it's a very good analyse of the pitfalls that the various group fell into. And a good read to get a better understanding of the UK economy and how to reacts to large socio-economic events. 
• BDD100K : want data for your driverless car ?? Berkeley got you covered.  [data][paper]
• CRDT @ redis : I love CRDT and this talk about their use in Redis.

Continuing with the transportation allegory

Virtualization provides cheap and accessible servers for everybody (think cloud / utility computing). Cheap and affordable often rhyme with non-sustainable.
Lets have a look at the Nano car from Tata. While its praise for bringing cheap cars to the mass, it also has been hailed as a potential environmental disaster.

Is virtualization the pendant of the Tata car ?

Since most company consider their energy consumtion data as trade secret its hard to evaluate its impact . With cars you can just measure air pollution (or the respiratory death rate ).