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Re: status of buildds?



On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:51:29PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 
> > The step for you to become trusted is easy: apply for NM. A few years
> > ago, I would've happily become your advocate. This /must/ mean you're
> > trustworthy, even though you're not trusted yet. After all, trustworthy
> > means 'deserving our trust' whereas trusted means 'getting our trust'.
> > The two are very different.
> 
> True... for some aspects... 
> 
> Either you trust me as a person or you trust some kind of software snippet,
> aka gpg key. 
> To trust a person doesn't require any additional stuff.
> And I don't see why you want to trust some kind of bytes on a disk more than
> me as a person. 

Gah, what a load of gibberish. Trust is a 3-ary function of the form:

trust :: Person -> Task -> Scenario -> Boolean

And is defined as:

trust p t s = (need_to_trust p t s) && (willing_to_trust p t s)

It is not this, as you so absurdly claim:

trust p t s = willing_to_trust p

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