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Re: The Best Entrepreneur I Know

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Post by DanBC » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 10:16 AM UTC

deciplex wrote: post #60

visakanv wrote: post #36

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It's interesting to look at your comment, and look at the nasty comment that it provoked. This is the starting point of a cycle of nastiness. You could've asked the person to elaborate or be specific, or even contradicted or questioned them- without saying "you lack " and "try to rather than ". Why so mean? Was the meanness intentional, or...? Genuinely curious.

Honestly, if you can't withstand a little (in this case, very mild) invective every once in a while, then you probably should avoid discussing politics on the internet - if not in real life - altogether. While I obviously don't agree with him at all, I don't think heuving's comment was inappropriate, even within the context of trying to have a rational debate. And, I would say the same of my own 'nasty' comment as we…

Heuving's comment is clearly against HN guidelines and as such is downvoted by a few people.

Re: The Best Entrepreneur I Know

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Post by visakanv » Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

deciplex wrote: post #60

visakanv wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting to look at your comment, and look at the nasty comment that it provoked. This is the starting point of a cycle of nastiness. You could've asked the person to elaborate or be specific, or even contradicted or questioned them- without saying "you lack " and "try to rather than ". Why so mean? Was the meanness intentional, or...? Genuinely curious.

Honestly, if you can't withstand a little (in this case, very mild) invective every once in a while, then you probably should avoid discussing politics on the internet - if not in real life - altogether. While I obviously don't agree with him at all, I don't think heuving's comment was inappropriate, even within the context of trying to have a rational debate. And, I would say the same of my own 'nasty' comment as we…

It seems to me that you think I'm offended, or upset, or concerned about "appropriateness". I don't actually care for any of that!

Here were my thoughts:

1- We could have had an interesting discussion about finance

2- instead, it went "money wonks"-> "you lack critical skills" + "standard claptrap" -> "you lack some important read-a-newspaper-in-the-last-seven-years skills".

3- Back-and-forth snide, snarky attacks are far more boring (to me) than actually discussing points of contention, different points of view, so on.

4- I definitely appreciate that you took the trouble to link to the Emergency Economic Stablization Act, but it feels to me like the conversation had already soured before that.

5- I'm writing what I'm writing not so much because of this particular instance, but because mean comments in general tend to derail otherwise interesting or could've-been-interesting threads. Which feels wasteful to me. A mean comment has a souring effect that's IMHO not worth the short-term entertainment value.

Re: The Best Entrepreneur I Know

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Post by iolothebard » Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 10:31 PM UTC

hueving wrote: post #30

iolothebard wrote: post #11

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I wanted to be a cat burglar as a kid. In all the studying, learning, planning and risk assessment I realized it's easier and less risky to just go to college. That and stealing isn't really something to aspire to in life. Probably why I didn't stay in finance/accounting/banking. At least salesmen have to convince you of their lies, the money wonks just take it out of your account every month.

> the money wonks just take it out of your account every month. With a statement like that it sounds like you lack some important critical thinking skills. Try to provide concrete examples of things rather than echoing standard claptrap.

I was an auditor at Arthur Andersen, how about you pay attention to the fucking world around you before you start spouting off like you've got something to contribute yourself, eh dipshit?