- The group debated long-term software preservation, referencing the VPRI “Cuneiform” paper (http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf) that explores running today’s software centuries or millennia into the future.  
- Taek summarized the paper’s proposal: create a minimal “base machine” that a competent programmer could rebuild in an afternoon, then feed it successive layers of code until the original program can be executed.  
- xentrac_ argued that two hours is a more realistic target for reconstructing such a base machine and posted additional commentary on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512892).  
- kanzure countered that the simplest path is to store plaintext source and avoid non-portable features, but conceded that compilers, architectures, and human carelessness make this hard to enforce.  
- superkuh highlighted ArchiveTeam’s “Warrior” VM (http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior), noting that it takes about two minutes to download, boot, and begin web-spidering for preservation tasks using VirtualBox or VMware.  
- FourFire raised the practical concern of “minimally illegal nootropics,” seeking community experience with gray-area cognitive enhancers.