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Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by xlnt »

radu_floricica wrote: post #67
xlnt wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moral question is: how should I live? But anyway, use whatever words you want, I've told you what I meant: living better, more fruitful lives with more learning and thinking. And people who could do that, but don't , are guilty of living badly, living below their abilities. This is not just a matter of opinion or taste. For example, we are only able to communicate here because of scientific achievement; that is o…

Morality comes from living and the way you live, not the other way around. Morality is just one of the tools we use to live better. It's definitely not something to judge how well we live.

if morality is a tool to use to live better (i agree), then people who don't use it, or use little of it, are immoral, and ought to change.

Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by Retric »

xlnt wrote: post #49
menloparkbum wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pokemon and football are higher up on the universally accepted scale of morally justifiable hobbies than internet forum flamebaiting. sorry about this - someone needed to let you know.

I'm serious. You, apparently, aren't. You're just calling me a troll. I think on PG's scale that is DH0 - Name Calling. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

If you really want a DH6...

guilty of having immoral values. they ought to find better things fun, but instead are wasting their lives.

There are no single accepted set of moral values so the term has no inherent meaning. Where some groups say your thoughts are a moral choice it's far more common to say it's your actions that are moral in nature. Of those groups that feel your thoughts are important most feel doing good works is not a moral imperative let alone creating beauty in the world.

So you are basically suggesting a world view without support. And thus you are just defining your terms and not presenting an argument supported by fact. This prevents a DH6 as there is no central point that could be refuted. You are not presenting an argument as much as presenting an unsupported opinion which falls under the same category as gibberish and is not refutable.

PS: "If you really want a DH6..." present an argument supported by facts.

Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by xlnt »

Retric wrote: post #83
xlnt wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm serious. You, apparently, aren't. You're just calling me a troll. I think on PG's scale that is DH0 - Name Calling. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

If you really want a DH6... guilty of having immoral values. they ought to find better things fun, but instead are wasting their lives. There are no single accepted set of moral values so the term has no inherent meaning. Where some groups say your thoughts are a moral choice it's far more common to say it's your actions that are moral in nature. Of those groups that feel your thoughts are important most feel doing g…

just because people don't agree on what moral knowledge is true does not make the term meaningless. you go on to discuss what some existing opinions on the matter are, with no particular regard for which are true, just how common they are; that isn't a way to figure out what is true, and you haven't suggested a better view than the one i put forward.

PS No one wants a DH0 reply. And they shouldn't be upvoted.

PPS You aren't allowed to call someone's writing "gibberish" in a DH6, nor ought you write significant meta about what the person is or isn't doing, or does or doesn't "really want", or anything like that. Nor does it makes sense to imply you are going to give a DH6 reply and then, within it, say that it's not possible to give one.

Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by mudge »

adammichaelc wrote: post #47

"Don't work for money. Then you'll just get rich. And it's harder for a rich man to go to heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Why would you want to get rich if after you die you can't enjoy the next life? "Just find what your passionate about and do that. Then you'll love life, you'll be in a great mood for your wife and kids. And you'll make plenty of money to get by." Norm Nemrow, My Accounting P…

"be in a great mood for your wife and kids" That's my favorite part.

Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by edw519 »

notdarkyet wrote: post #55

I have never made a comment on HC and I have been the silent observer for quite a while. Whether it will be of quality or not, I feel now is a good time to make the first one. To me, the greatest part of this site is the Ask YC section. Some of the most insightful and helpful advice I have ever read has come from the comments and in most cases, the comments are significantly better than the articles themselves. The b…

You picked a pretty good post for a first comment. Welcome!

Re: Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got?

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Post by mynameishere »

astrec wrote: post #53

One company ago I made a mistake: Not a huge mistake, but a mistake that was big enough. Summoned to the CEO's office, I figured I'd soon be stuffing my knickknacks in a box. Instead he told me the following story about Sam Walton, the founder of a somewhat successful retail venture. A newly hired executive had made a multi-million dollar mistake and he too was summoned to the corner office. Before Sam could get a wo…

I wonder who originally said that.

http://books.google.com/books?id=9-9D_5wK01QC&pg=PA87&#3...

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