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> but we are far from agreeing that large financial institutions are inherently competent because they're large. I don’t see anyone making that argument. Spec
by rosndo 5y ago
> but we are far from agreeing that large financial institutions are inherently competent because they're large.
I don’t see anyone making that argument.
Speculating on an ETF “accidentally” acquiring more than 15% of Twitter implies a whole different level of incompetence than a big ETF ever fucking up big.
- kolbe 5y ago> Seriously, do you think funds playing with the kind of money to buy 15% of twitter often make careless purchases? - You
- rosndo 5y ago
- kolbe 5y agoGood luck with that perspective in life. I'll stick with writing clearly. You stick with writing poorly and flipping out whenever people misunderstand your intentions.
- dang 5y agoYou broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do that, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. We ban accounts that do that because it's so destructive of what this site is supposed to be for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoCould you please stop breaking the site guidelines, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we've already warned you several times. If it keeps up we're going to end up having to ban you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rosndo 5y agoWhat’s the problem with my comment? The word “fuck”? The fact that the other commenter got offended because I pointed out their very real struggles with reading comprehension? I did not call kolbes comments bad, but patiently explained where they got it wrong. I think you’re seeing fighting where there’s none, at least not on my side.
- dang 5y agoFor starters, "Yeah, I’m sorry that you can’t understand English" was obviously an egregious violation of the site guidelines. We don't care about people saying "fuck". We care about the things that are in the guidelines, such as being kind, not being snarky, not calling names, and so on. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rosndo 5y agoThere are billions of people on this planet who can’t understand English, there’s nothing wrong with them. It’s really not unkind to point out when someone is aggressively misinterpreting really simple words.
- dang 4y agoWhat you wrote would be taken by most readers as an obvious personal attack. If you say you didn't intend it that way, ok, but we still have to ban accounts that post like that, because such comments are indistinguishable from garden-variety personal attacks.