Re: Impossible Database Design?


"Bob Badour" <bbadour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marshall wrote:

Bob Badour wrote:

Marshall wrote:

Regardless, a discrete representation is the only kind of
representation
possible with digital computers. You play the cards you're dealt.

Marshall, if you are going to interact with the self-aggrandizing
ignorants please take the time to call them on their bull***.

Geeze, I thought that was what I was doing. I knocked down
the complaint about needing to represent time as continuous,
since it's impossible, and provided the counter of how we
use a discrete representation of a subset of the reals, even
though the reals are continuous. I also knocked down the idea
of there being a problem with applying an order to any
arbitrary discrete domain.

Cutting out the context of what I wrote does not make your response any
more valid. You have assumed a number of things that are not necessarily
true.

First, you assume people will read beyond the first part of the exchange
where you conceded Joe's alleged argument.

Second, you assume that those who read your arguments will understand
them sufficiently to recognize them as crushing refutations of some of
the remainder of Joe's bull*** instead of perhaps seeing them only as
establishing a second reasonable view on a controversial issue.

Third, you assume Joe is a sincere discussant of the topic instead of
the someone manipulating you for his own self-promotion.

He manipulated you into not only accepting him as an intellectual peer,
which he is not, but into granting him an intellectual high ground.

Why does all of this matter?


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