3 ms·

It's not what you say, but how you say it. How to disagree: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

• gkya 11y ago
  I do mostly agree to that article, after having it skimmed now, but you miss one point: There are no sound arguments in these threads that one can refute, nor the post is an argumentative article. It is a product publicised here for discussion, and that happens. I can write a proper refutatio on, for example the article you linked, because it is an argumentative text. Again here it's a free-form discussion, so the article does not apply. Otherwise it'd be like driving bolts into nuts with an hammer. So it's one part what I say, one part how I say, and one part the context in which I say.