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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Well, it was
a pretty small group last night at Spring Thai/Flagship Taproom,
but the conversation was lively and compelling!</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks to
Mike (I think?) who shared with us his experience with Second
Life/Open Sim and how he has been participating in the
"Metaverse" for many years now. Good luck with your perceptual
hash project! I hope you are able to get that difficult tenant
situation resolved too. <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Allan: I saw
your vehicle's license plate as you drove away and thought it
was great! I'll try to remember to ask you about that next time.
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Derek: I
completely forgot to mention this in our discussion of Amazon
Web Services, but the reason I happened to know the retail price
of their S3 service (about $21 per TB) was because I saw it on
Sia's website - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://sia.tech/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://sia.tech/</a>
Although Sia's website has changed a lot since I last looked at
it, they are still a blockchain based, decentralized, open
source storage platform where if you have storage space, you can
rent that out on the Sia network or if you need storage space
you can rent it on the Sia network. Their stats at the bottom of
the homepage indicate that there is about 600-700 hosts, 1
million+ downloads, 7.6 PB of total storage on the network, and
2.72 PB of storage currently used. Filecoin is another
blockchain based, decentralized storage network - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://filecoin.io/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://filecoin.io/</a>
Although I understand that you're no fan of blockchain/digital
currencies. <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Tom: thanks
so much for providing the furry entertainment! While I was a bit
disappointed that the women on the Flagship/Spring Thai patio
were far more interested in your Samoyed than me, that tends to
be par for the course...</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">And my talk
about a potential open source tax credit was fun to give too. <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Finally, the
organization that I have been volunteering with recently, Open
Source Ecology - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.opensourceecology.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.opensourceecology.org/</a>,
came up as we were talking about Blender and FreeCAD. "An open
source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases
innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently
developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global
Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important
machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything
from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. In the process
of creating the GVCS, OSE intends to develop a modular, scalable
platform for documenting and developing open source, libre
hardware – including blueprints for both physical artifacts and
for related open enterprises." I have been helping on land
acquisition, interacting with Realtors and contractors in Kansas
City, MO in order to take the OSE design for a 2 bedroom, 2
bathroom, 1000 square foot house that can be built for $50,000
in materials from a concept into practice and then scaled up
over time. Feel free to check it out if you feel so inclined...</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Brad<br>
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