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I really like the idea of developing a modern Access alternative, but why are you trying to create a new language? Aren't QBE and SQL sufficient? Why not something that is like a cloud SaaS version of Access, but can be extended with s
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The only difference is that people who reject medicine are rightfully considered delusional.
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> If only physics departments everywhere would adopt this philosophy! Let's take electrical engineering as an example. If you model an electrical circuit, you assume that there simply is a voltage source where electricity comes from
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> But if a model with more complex assumptions is a better approximation to reality than a model with simpler assumptions, would you not adopt the former? Not necessarily. Maybe the simpler model is enough to understand what is going on.
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The anti-intellectual part was to claim that the awarding of prizes to prominent scientists only served to promote a certain ideology. It is like saying that the Nobel Prize for Medicine would exist only to promote orthodox medicine. > I
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All models are wrong by definition. The purpose of a model is to be a simplification of reality in order to gain insights and not to perfectly replicate reality. In physics, there is even the metaphor of the spherical cow[1] to make fun of
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The idea that awarding a prize to the most respected scientists in a particular field is solely for the purpose of advancing an ideology is in itself extremely anti-intellectual and biased. Have you even looked at the work of the scientists
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> Almost any kind of change starts small and then builds up. I don't see anything to indicate that banning ads isn't just the first step in the process. Cigarettes have become more and more restricted over time and they also s
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There are many reasons, especially for taxes on the value of land: * The value of land is largely created by public services such as schools, infrastructure, parks and public transport. Therefore, it makes sense to recover this value throug
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> Plenty of people in major cities across the globe are fighting for free mass transit. I never understood why. This study from Talinn, Estonia[1] shows that the overall impact on passenger numbers was very small (+1.2% increase) and tha
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According to [1] Australia and Chile prduce most lithium. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium
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How much has the SPC contributed to Singapore's economy? How much have foreign oil, chemical and electronics companies contributed to Singapore's economy?
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Many countries have higher tariffs and trade barriers, and they remain poor.
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China's economic rise began when barriers were removed and foreign companies and products (machines, materials) were allowed into the country. Shenzen, the most open of all Chinese regions, has become the richest. The decades before, w
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The argument is that those countries (e.g. Taiwan) with lower tariffs were more successful, compared to their peers at the same time.
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> document delivery system has been perverted into a application delivery system The Web is much more than a document delivery or archiving system, it is hypertext and the boundary between hypertext and apps is fluid. Is Wikipedia an app
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> Why is a trigger any more surprising than any callback style interface? A procedure call is explicit, a trigger is implicit. You don't call a trigger, it just happens as a side effect of something else. People tend to forget impli
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Incorrect separation of data from logic is a human problem, not a Postgres problem. Put your logic in one schema[1], let's call it code schema and your data in another schema, the data schema . There you have your separation. Now yo
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Triggers tend to generate all kinds of surprises when you change something in a part of your database and suddenly other seemingly unrelated things begin to change. Views can be hard to understand if you have views that use views, use views
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> I love what you're saying, but running a normal modern development and deployment cycle on code stored in databases is hell. Can you be more specific? What exactly are you missing? As long as you put your code and data into separ
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I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but logically the WHERE clause happens before the SELECT clause[1], so it only calculates this value for the rows you're interested in. It is also possible to index functions without gen
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> That all just sounds a touch complicated compared to data in database, code somewhere else (like git). You use Postgres as a deployment target and not as a replacement for git. It's not complicated at all. You even get features li
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> All sorts of things are possible but it misses a fantastic opportunity to compartmentalise the data away from the implementation. That's what schemas are for. You have a schema for your code and a schema for your data. You can red
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> And even if JSON has a simple representation as runtime data objects (in most scripting languages), that representation is pretty far from ideal compared to a representation tailored towards your specific application logic. Often you h
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I don't think the pendulum swung too much towards the experts. Just a few weeks ago, there was an article here on Hacker News (I can't find it at the moment), according to which climate scientists and climate change deniers get al
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Why is agreement a measure of how scientific a field is? I would argue that if there are no conflicting views, no progress can be made. I would also argue that the older a science is, the more consensus there will be for fundamental things,
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If the social sciences follow the scientific method, then I would call it science. It isn't a natural science, but a science.
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> Please list a set of economic truths. Economics is not a mathematical science, it has no underlying axioms like mathematics. Neither does biology, medicine or climate science. Do you think these are not sciences either? > When you a
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> Economics is not a science, economics uses science. So you decide what is science and what isn't? What is your model of what a science is? As long as you can't answer that, the only thing unscientific is your comment. > Th

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