Re: DIS: Nerf Zombies

2018-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant
I thought of that. In some ways that would be preferable, but they're an interesting system that hasn't been around that long. When it gets closer to October (presuming we don't get rid of it sooner), we should maybe come up something where we could create a timed repeal, and then make delaying it

Re: DIS: Protos on github

2018-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I don't know if this will turn out to be useful, but I've put a protos repo > on our github: > https://github.com/AgoraNomic/protos > > I've put in there an Assets start-of-proto. Right now, it's a copy of the > assets rule, where I've

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant
Nope. Indestructible assets can only be destroyed by a rule "other than this one" to catch exactly this kind of problem. -Aris On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:18 PM, Corona wrote: > Hmm, does this mean you can arbitrarily destroy indestructible assets by > attempting to transfer them to nobody in par

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Corona
​Hmm, does this mean you can arbitrarily destroy indestructible assets by attempting to transfer them to nobody in particular? ~Corona On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Ok I looked up competent authority and see how it works in this > context. Back to the original poin

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant
Indeed, you're an authority, and you're competent, but that doesn't make you a competent authority. And you're right: although that's not what I intended (I wanted legacy for support for rules that still directly adjusted balances), it's nevertheless certainly a reasnoble enough interpretation. -A

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Ok I looked up competent authority and see how it works in this context. Back to the original point: The rule here implies that if you attempt to decrease your own balance without specifying a destination, the currency is question is destroyed. (you are a competent authority for your own holdin

DIS: Protos on github

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
I don't know if this will turn out to be useful, but I've put a protos repo on our github: https://github.com/AgoraNomic/protos I've put in there an Assets start-of-proto. Right now, it's a copy of the assets rule, where I've clipped out secondary stuff that may be better housed in other ru

DIS: doesn't THIS apply to "pay" without a destination?

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
>From Rule 2166/26: If a rule, proposal, or other competent authority attempts to increase or decrease the balance of an entity without specifying a source or destination, then the currency is created or destroyed as needed. "paying" without a destination attempts to redu

Re: DIS: the next financial tool

2018-04-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but to me this really sounds lime you're talking about types of > > rule defined currency, not instances. This is especially clear because one > > can't have a set of instances that does not d

Re: DIS: the next financial tool

2018-04-27 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: I'm sorry, but to me this really sounds lime you're talking about types of rule defined currency, not instances. This is especially clear because one can't have a set of instances that does not describe specific instances, which this one can't because it