DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-14 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: > While this does technically bring everyone closer to the same amount of > money, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it. This also doesn't fix > the gap in land ownership. I really think we need to do a map reset to > achieve maximum equality. So

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-14 Thread Reuben Staley
I do like this quite a bit. If I'm honest, I don't think this is the absolute best way, but I don't know if we'll every discover the best way, so... this is good. I always imagined that I resolve the auctions in numerical order, so that clearly favors the bids placed on the lowest numbered auctions

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-14 Thread Reuben Staley
I mean, I routinely submit proposals like "The End of the World, Again" and "Q*Bert the Second", which are decidedly silly. On Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 03:48 Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > On July 14, 2018 9:44 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Title: Frankenstein's land auctions > > Side note, do people

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-14 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On July 14, 2018 9:44 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > Title: Frankenstein's land auctions Side note, do people approve of the whimsical proposal names? I can switch to more functional names if you like, it just seemed a little more... ah... nomic-esque. -twg

DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-14 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On July 13, 2018 10:00 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > While this does technically bring everyone closer to the same amount of > > money, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it. This also doesn't fix > > the gap in land ownership. I really think we need to do a map reset to > > achieve maximum e

DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-13 Thread Aris Merchant
twg, in case you don't read all threads, please see my thread "Long Term Economic Reform Plan". In particular, I request that you delay "From each according to eir means" till next week. You may also want to read the rest of the thread. Thanks, Aris On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 3:00 PM Reuben Staley

DIS: Re: BUS: UNIX philosophy for proposals

2018-07-13 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
The problem with this methods is that people may wish to only change something, if a separate change goes with it. With the current conditional voting and the fact that it would be spread across many distributions, that isn't a possible consideration. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:51 PM Timon Walshe-Gr