Re: DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Could you take a look at this[1], it is throwing me an error? [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/ Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 20, 2017, at 4:08 PM, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Jun

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Nic Evans
On 06/20/17 15:09, Kerim Aydin wrote: > This time it's a completely different metaphor, and maybe - as suggested > elsewhere - we should go to the common usage of "switch". If you have a > TV remote switch, it's pretty clear that the "units" of channel and > volume are fixed on some kind of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: Those solutions make the ruleset a little easier (read: prevents us humanities majors from having to know what octonian space and lattice points are). You don't have to know what it is, but you _do_ have to spell it correctly. Greetings,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: oof, also my apologies for the walls of text. i'm playing with gmail's plain text editor and the input box doesn't automatically line break for me. those paragraphs are...denser than expected. For what it's worth, I did not consider there to be

Re: DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Done. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 20, 2017, at 4:08 PM, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: >> I like the not using the www

Re: DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I like the not using the www prefix as a solution. Once you decide, I can do > the GitHub side of things or allow you to do it. OK, sounds good. I just pointed the root domain to

Re: DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I like the not using the www prefix as a solution. Once you decide, I can do the GitHub side of things or allow you to do it. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 20, 2017, at 2:00 PM, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Josh T
I think I'm OK with supporting that interpretation. 天火狐 On 20 June 2017 at 16:09, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Josh T wrote: > > I'm not convinced that saying "the unit of Balance > > values is shiny" is sufficient to restrict them to integers: I

Re: DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM, omd wrote: > It seems like it would be a good idea to point agoranomic.org at the > new site. Assuming you agree, whoever owns the GitHub organization, > please add www.agoranomic.org as a custom domain in the GitHub > settings and let me

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Josh T wrote: > I'm not convinced that saying "the unit of Balance > values is shiny" is sufficient to restrict them to integers: I imagine > few people would dispute "the meter is a unit of length" as incorrect, > and it makes sense to talk about fractions of a meter.

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Josh T wrote: > On one hand, I'm kind of glad I don't have to try and explain what an > "algebraic integer" is to everyone since we can use the common-sense > ordinary-language definition of "integer" to mean "rational integer"; > on the other hand, I'm not convinced that

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Josh T
On one hand, I'm kind of glad I don't have to try and explain what an "algebraic integer" is to everyone since we can use the common-sense ordinary-language definition of "integer" to mean "rational integer"; on the other hand, I'm not convinced that saying "the unit of Balance values is shiny" is

Re: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, CuddleBeam wrote: > > read: prevents us humanities majors from having to know what > > octonian space and lattice points are > > I agree. While for deviant cases I believe that now and then more > offshoot things can definitely arise, the rules themselves should > be as

DIS: agoranomic.org

2017-06-20 Thread omd
Hey everyone, I like the new site. Actually, I feel kind of bad, since some time ago I said I'd do the tech myself and then I disappeared instead. Not sure why I didn't think of GitHub Pages - that seems to work pretty well! Although it doesn't provide an obvious way to integrate the lists,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > For the purposes of clarity, CFJ “omd "most recently became a player” on the > 3rd of February, 2011.” I submit the following as a gratuitous argument: I'm fairly certain that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: >> >>"To flip an instance of a switch" is to make it come to have a given value. >> >> makes me believe that a switch can be flipped to any of the switch's >> legal

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > >>"To flip an instance of a switch" is to make it come to have a given value. > > makes me believe that a switch can be flipped to any of the switch's > legal values. As long as it comes to have the given value, it's a > legal change. There's a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
oof, also my apologies for the walls of text. i'm playing with gmail's plain text editor and the input box doesn't automatically line break for me. those paragraphs are...denser than expected. -grok On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:51 AM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > On Tue, Jun

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > You can not flip a switch to a value that the switch already held or at least > that would make sense. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > Why not just require that shinies may only be given in positive > integers? Or that any entity that would give shinies may not give > fractional parts of shinies, negative amounts of shinies, or zero > shinies? (both also eliminate the "i give

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I recommend that the Referee accept this apology and issue a green card if any card. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 20, 2017, at 7:35 AM, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
You can not flip a switch to a value that the switch already held or at least that would make sense. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 20, 2017, at 7:14 AM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:51 AM,

DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread omd
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I point my finger at omd for violation of No Faking. I do apologize for the confusion; however, I claim I didn't violate No Faking, as it was a good faith mistake (I figured I'd

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I believe that to resolve this we should legislate that all attempts to pay > shinies shall be interpreted as a vector with a certain point in octonion > space and the distance

DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
shit. eir registration. still getting used to spivak. apologies -grok On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:14 AM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: >> >> I point my finger

DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > I point my finger at omd for violation of No Faking. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > Question for you. Maybe a proto-CFJ. What

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Herald] Pre-Resolution of Victory Election

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > Let me try again, I hereby ratify the following document without > objection: {{Votes on any attempt to initiate a Victory Election > are votes on the most recent successful attempt.}} I'd object to this myself, still too vague,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I present these comments as evidence on the called CFJ and request that for the ease of all participants, the Secretary publish a preliminary report explaining the state of the game, if this were to be true. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 19,

Re: DIS: Ordering

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I have tried to be somewhat consistent with new entries being in order of date, but I have not updated previous entries. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 19, 2017, at 9:33 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > Can we adopt a style

DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I believe that to resolve this we should legislate that all attempts to pay shinies shall be interpreted as a vector with a certain point in octonion space and the distance from the origin along the vector to the first crossed lattice point, being the amount to be payed. Publius Scribonius

DIS: Re: BUS: [Herald] Pre-Resolution of Victory Election

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Let me try again, I hereby ratify the following document without objection: {{Votes on any attempt to initiate a Victory Election are votes on the most recent successful attempt.}} Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 19, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Alex

DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3524 assigned to Publius Scribonius Scholasticus

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I find CFJ 3524 FALSE, as the ruleset clearly and undebatebly specifies in plain terms that any previous holding of a White Ribbon under any ruleset precludes the action that Murphy attempted to take to become the holder of a White Ribbon. Further, I point my finger at Murphy for violation of

DIS: Re: BUS: It's been a while.

2017-06-20 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
According to my records, you were never deregistered. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 19, 2017, at 12:09 PM, omd wrote: > > I register.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > There's a precedent (that I can't find right now, I can't remember > the statement context) Ah, here we go: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1813

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pointless (has this been tried before?)

2017-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > The sentence specifically addressing negative payments is required, > and cannot be similarly elided, as it serves a different purpose: > it stops people from “paying” someone in order to take all of the > “payee”’s Shinies for emself. There's a