DIS: Re: BUS: Founding the Agoran Voting Market

2017-01-15 Thread nichdel
On 01/07/2017 04:00 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: An Agoran Decision is within the scope of a sale contract if the seller has not yet voted in a number of resolved Agoran Decisions equal to the vote count of that contract. For the purposes of this Charter, the seller has voted in an Agoran Decision if

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Emergencies

2017-01-15 Thread Aris Merchant
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:22 PM nichdel wrote: > The thing about emergency provisions is that they create backdoors and > > loopholes, which are exactly the things that cause their need. I'm > > generally against new ones unless they have a very specific > > justification. I may have exaggerated

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Emergencies

2017-01-15 Thread nichdel
The thing about emergency provisions is that they create backdoors and loopholes, which are exactly the things that cause their need. I'm generally against new ones unless they have a very specific justification. Culture and rule interpretation is a feedback loop. You suggest that we protect agai

Re: DIS: Proto-proposal: Emergencies

2017-01-15 Thread ais523
On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 20:37 -0800, Aris Merchant wrote: > Recently I've been thinking about what might be necessary to defend > Agora against various threats. Some of these involve deliberate > action on the part of players, and some are things that could happen > accidentally. The only solution I

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Services rendered

2017-01-15 Thread Aris Merchant
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 8:57 PM, nichdel wrote: > > I'm currently looking into changes to organizations and agencies to simplify > and bring them in line with the new economy. Could either include a contract > system with that, or (the 'free market solution') someone could make an > organization t