&gt; The reason that this could be really cool is that you could hypothetically hash these MIRs and store these hashes in a public database of open-source code.<p>Sounds similar to what Joe Armstrong described at the end of &quot;The Mess We&#x27;re In&quot; (StrangeLoop 2014): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4</a>