[HN Gopher] Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World
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       Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World
        
       Author : bpierre
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2024-11-14 13:47 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (lattice.xyz)
        
       | Imustaskforhelp wrote:
       | I legit thought that this was about setting up an environment.
       | However this is regarding blockchain , I think it feels something
       | along the lines of https://fleek.xyz/
        
       | anotherhue wrote:
       | I would have hoped to at least see a section about how this
       | compares to Urbit.
       | 
       | Am I too cynical or does this whole endeavour feel like a
       | solution in search of a problem? Are EVE players particularly
       | concerned with monetary policy? (They are aren't they?)
        
         | vetrom wrote:
         | There are a great many reasons the game is referred to as
         | "Spreadsheets in Space", and decisions from the developers
         | related to the ingame inflationary and deflationary mechanisms
         | have had sea-change effects on its day-to-day gameplay meta
         | over the years.
         | 
         | TBH most of the above is true for most any MMO where the scale
         | of player activity can directly affect the game economy, EVE is
         | just the most famous example.
        
         | jdougan wrote:
         | There is also concern in Eve about fraud and cheating, and not
         | just between players. Individual devs have put their fingers on
         | the scale before and something like a blockchain could make it
         | visible.
        
       | skulk wrote:
       | I'd like to know how this isn't just using the EVM as a super
       | slow database. I don't believe for a second that the EVM is
       | spitting out frames of DOOM.
        
         | krunck wrote:
         | I was imagining a Minecraft-like game where the world state and
         | client code are "on-chain", un-owned yet evolving. 2B2T comes
         | to mind.
        
           | Y_Y wrote:
           | TFA sees fit to dispense with the hyphen and just uses
           | "onchain", presumably because it's just so normal and
           | accepted.
           | 
           | Less hype, more hyphen.
        
       | camgunz wrote:
       | Besides feeling like every blockchain article is word salad, I
       | tried pretty hard how they provide any integrity guarantees but
       | couldn't find anything. The core problems with decentralized
       | computing are privacy and integrity, i.e. I don't typically want
       | someone knowing what I compute, and I don't want them to be able
       | to muck with my results. AFAIK you need hardware support for this
       | (a la SGX or TrustZone) but I couldn't find any reference to this
       | stuff.
        
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