Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 375
I'm not sure that paying someone a fair price for a product (which is what fair trade aims to do) constitutes giving them aid.
I'm not sure that paying someone a fair price for a product (which is what fair trade aims to do) constitutes giving them aid.
Really? That's not the medicine that I recognise. It seems to be more along the lines of 'this looks about right so we'll give it to some people and see what happens'. There seems to be very limited understanding of how the drug actually works and interacts with other compounds in the body.
In that ways it's a lot like climate - both deal with large. complex, only partially understood systems. Both get reasonable results most of the time. Both acknowledge there are gaps and both are workign to close those gaps.
Possibly, but there's evidence (http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/fst30years) to the contrary.
Whilst I agree with you that, in general, comments that explain the intent are always to be welcomed, your example is not so good. You'd define a constant called REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT, set to 3 and possibly another one called DEBIT_ENTRY your SELECT becomes:
select blah from foo where trans_type = REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT
or even more clearly (as reversal of credit is a bit of a double negative)
select blah from foo where trans_type = DEBIT_ENTRY
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.