Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Our minimal definition of "electronic money" is the following.

Instead of creating legal tender such as Dollars as banknotes or transactions in some complex obscure banking system, the government offers an official simple centralized API that represents it instead.

Each citizen or legal entity has an account there, and transfers between registered users are just simple API calls.

So for example you would e able to put all your money in the government account instead of using useless banks. And then you would invest it as you want with the investment company of your choice, without tying the "my money is here" with "this is the best investment" aspects of banks.

A Python wrapper over a bunch of numeric and computer algebra system packages to try and fully replace MATLAB et. al.

For example, their

Quickstart tutorial at: www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html From this we see that they are very opinionated, you don't need to import anything, everything has a pre-defined global name, which is convenient, e.g.:is the 3D vector space over the rationals. This also suggests that they are quite focused on computer algebra as opposed to numerical.

The more heavily a project relies on it, the more you start to regret it.

It is quite comical that two separate towns were founded one next to the other right in the middle of nowhere. And that both have so slightly weird names.

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