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Joseph Potvin

@jrpotvin

A.C.Clarke 2nd Law on Limits of the Possible: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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#OccasionalTransport Occasional Transport (On BSky) Moose Consortium's Ten Urgent Steps to Solve the Greater National Capital Region's Transit Problem letsgomoose.ca letsgomoose.ca/fr/

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We've been thinking through how RTG's exit could actually be arranged. See item 10 in our "Ten Urgent Steps". letsgomoose.ca #ottnews #OttawaLRT

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There's a new W3C Community Group for experience and guidelines for people who are suddenly called to avoid travel or meetings, work-at-home or do classes online. w3.org/community/covi…

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#GlobalReset Xalgorithms Alliance invites all to resist paralysis from fear of uncertainty and mesmerizing detail, to #conceptualize, #design and #implement #projects that make coherent futures more likely and that close off perverse futures. CC-by 4.0 - xalgorithms.org/global_reset

#GlobalReset 

<a href="/Xalgorithms/">Xalgorithms Alliance</a> invites all to resist paralysis from fear of uncertainty and mesmerizing detail, to #conceptualize, #design and #implement #projects that make coherent futures more likely and that close off perverse futures.

CC-by 4.0 - xalgorithms.org/global_reset
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SCARRF or SCARRY? SCARRF: Statement of Constitutional Assurance of Rights, Responsibilities and Freedoms SCARRY: Silent Consent to Arbitrary Rule and Restriction for Years

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RE: "low-level table operations... no idea what that gets anyone" This might help: methodsandtools.com/archive/archiv… Or this: researchgate.net/publication/22…

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Mother of programming Grace Hopper: “That was the beginning of COBOL, a computer language for data processors. I could say 'Subtract income tax from pay' instead of trying to write that in octal code or using all kinds of symbols” particularpassions.com/grace-murray-h… dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/60…

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RE: Why RaD vs RaC? My 4 next tweets comparing NatLang—RaC—FlowChrt—RaD illustrates "The facilitation of a particular action or behaviour by an artefact’s design to a particular user ... known as an ‘affordance’." (Driver 2018, p.8).

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Delivery is offered for standard or non-standard box when more than half full. Delivery is free when a standard box is more than half full and contains at least $100.00 of groceries. Delivery of all non-standard boxes is charged.

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IF “box_used” = “>0.5” THEN IF “box_type” = “standard” THEN do = "deliver" + "deliver_charge" ELSE IF “box_has” >= $100.00 THEN do = "deliver" ELSE do = "deliver" + "deliver_charge" ENDIF ENDIF ELSE do = "" ENDIF

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used < 0.5——no deliver / / box \ has<$100——$ deliver \ / \ box standard \ / \ \ / has>=$100——free deliver \ / used >= 0.5 \ \ box non-standard——$ deliver

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Looking for feedback on the 100% free/libre/open Earth Reserve Assurance (ERA) Deposit Receipt design: era.xalorithms.org

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Enjoy the '40 Year View' of Bill (William Olders), Xalgorithms Alliance Co-founder and Chair. His firm DataKinetics supplies #rules processing platforms to many large #banks, #creditcard, #insurance and #equities companies... Now recreated as a #free/#libre #IoR! xalgorithms.org/writing/a-fort…

Enjoy the '40 Year View' of Bill (<a href="/BillOlders/">William Olders</a>), <a href="/Xalgorithms/">Xalgorithms Alliance</a> Co-founder and Chair.

His firm <a href="/DataKinetics/">DataKinetics</a> supplies #rules processing platforms to many large #banks, #creditcard, #insurance and #equities companies...

Now recreated as a #free/#libre #IoR!

xalgorithms.org/writing/a-fort…
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In 2016, our idea for an #InternetofRules coalesced... In 2021, the free/libre/open #DataWithDirection Specification was completed. #DWDS Behold! The outcome matches the description! For our 5th anniversary, we've re-released the original concept video: vimeo.com/653873375

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Love this and its implications for smart contracts! These data classes can drive a slew of automation and strategic analysis! #dataWithDirection

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The latest version of "Earth Reserve Assurance (ERA): A Framework for Sound Money (v0.7.0)" just posted on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…