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You lack critical reading skills. His concern is not that they companies would grab a copy, his concern is that he used to rely on them for syncing. He no long
by philtar 9y ago
You lack critical reading skills.
His concern is not that they companies would grab a copy, his concern is that he used to rely on them for syncing. He no longer has to rely on them. Google can shut down calendar and contacts and he would still be fine.
- lorenzhs 9y agoPlease don't use such stark language on HN. There's a much friendlier way of saying that, something along the lines of "I think you misunderstood the author's concerns".
- lwhalen 9y agoYou are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.
- lorenzhs 9y agoIt's against the guidelines. They are very explicit about such things: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's not called "left-coast/euro sensitive", it's called manners.
- victorhooi 9y agoI have no idea what you mean by "left-coast/euro-sensitive". However, I will put what lorenzhs said a bit more bluntly. Please don't go out of your way to be a dick - there is no need for it, and it benefits nobody.
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837015 and marked it off-topic.
- philtar 9y agoYou are too sensitive. My statement was literally (and I do mean literally) an objective statement of fact. Nothing more nothing less. This ultra-politically correct mentality is what makes it hard to battle people like Trump.
- sctb 9y agoThe comment violates the guidelines by jumping to a personal attack with “You lack critical reading skills.” We need you to not do that when commenting here.