But over and above this there is the point that the extra activity of the sporting event is just displacement of activity in either time or space.

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"Every time a certain machine is created, there is job displacement, " he says.

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Fusion-io CEO David Flynn will present at the Open Compute Summit on the displacement of disk in the datacenter at 1:00 pm Pacific Time today, January 16, 2013.

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