Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: Of course, letting it occur platonically can lead to cascading reporting errors, but then that's why VCs are self-ratifying. Yes, and that's been working _so well_, too.

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Eris wrote: On 12/1/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Proto-Proposal: Mark decay (AI = 2, please) Amend the rule "Marks" by appending this text to the list of ways to gain and lose Marks: (-*) Two seconds before the end of each month, each entity loses eir holdings

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 1, 2007 2:37 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then use ms :D Why? We only have second precision on our timestamps. -root

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 1, 2007 2:32 PM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yuck. Can we just specify these ordering things directly and have them > all happen by announcement? I dislike things that need to occur regularly by announcement. For example, the Speaker never did assign prerogatives for November. Of c

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread comex
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Ian Kelly wrote: > What's so bad about 2 seconds before? It's unambiguous and trivial to > calculate, and if we instead just have a bunch of stuff that happens > "at the end of each month", then there are potential ordering > conflicts. Then use ms :D signature.asc

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 1, 2007 2:29 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to vote against any proposal that uses "x seconds before/after" in > a non-temporary rule, favoring (in this case) a proposal that also removes > that notation from the VC (-*). What's so bad about 2 seconds before? It's unambigu

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Taral
On 12/1/07, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The two seconds is so that, one second after marks are converted to VCs, the > VC decay takes effect. > > (Mark decay happens 2 seconds before, VC decay happens 1 second before) Yuck. Can we just specify these ordering things directly and h

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread comex
On Saturday 01 December 2007, Taral wrote: > >(-*) Two seconds before the end of each month, each entity > > loses eir holdings of each color of Mark, rounded down to the nearest > > multiple of 100; for each 100 Marks of a given color that e loses, e > > gains 1 VC of that color. > > What

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Saturday 01 December 2007 14:25:36 Taral wrote: > On 12/1/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proto-Proposal: Mark decay > > (AI = 2, please) > > > > Amend the rule "Marks" by appending this text to the list of ways > > to gain and lose Marks: > > > >(-*) Two seconds before the

Re: DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Taral
On 12/1/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proto-Proposal: Mark decay > (AI = 2, please) > > Amend the rule "Marks" by appending this text to the list of ways > to gain and lose Marks: > >(-*) Two seconds before the end of each month, each entity loses > eir holdings of

DIS: Proto: Mark decay

2007-12-01 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Mark decay (AI = 2, please) Amend the rule "Marks" by appending this text to the list of ways to gain and lose Marks: (-*) Two seconds before the end of each month, each entity loses eir holdings of each color of Mark, rounded down to the nearest mult