dratman
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- September 23, 2007 (18y ago)
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My weblog and news site, <a href="http://newsfare.com">Newsfare</a>, has mostly been devoted to U.S. politics. However, I've pretty much given up on that field since the recent anti-MoveOn resolution passed the Senate by something like 74 to 28. Pointless to continue, as far as I can see. Apparently these politicians are operating in a different dimension.
"Predicting the future without a causal understanding of the system is epistemologically questionable." That is an intriguing assertion, but it is circular. One can only demonstrate a causal understanding of a system by…
So obviously variables should be able to have more than one name: a long one and a short one. SQL offers the ability to define an alias name. Unfortunately that would be a kind of kitchen sink feature that no standards…
I offer the following idea as both useful and general. Beliefs, or articles of faith, may be defined as intrinsically untestable assertions. Under that assumption, people can and should feel at liberty to maintain…