Jamie Dallaire on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:03:22 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] [s-b] MoM reset


On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 16:46 -0500, Jamie Dallaire wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I believe the entire original transaction fails because I couldn't
> > > regain the MoM. So I didn't vacate, so nobody else had a shot.
> > >
> >
> > Hmmmm now THAT is a paradox... Submitting actions at different future
> times
> > within a single transaction... We need to plug that ASAP. You only
> vacated
> > the MoM if you were able to regain it later. You were only able to regain
> it
> > later if no one took it in the interval. No one took it in the interval
> only
> > if you didn't vacate it.
> Yep, my transaction in this thread would have been a paradox if the MoM
> was vacated at the time.
>
> Because I love a good paradox:
>
> BEGIN TRANSACTION
> At 21:55 UTC, I transfer m1 to comex.
> At 21:55 UTC on December 10, 2199, I transfer m1 to comex.
> END TRANSACTION
> --


I think I found a way to deal with all this tomfoolery. It cannot be
determined with certainty whether the 2199 game action (or all those at
00:00:00.5 and thereabouts) succeeds or fails.

Therefore the transaction fails.

BP
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