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Your example being wrong disproves your entire point.
by caslon 5y ago
Your example being wrong disproves your entire point.
- postingposts 5y ago
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoYou stated that a thing could not happen. You received an example showing that thing happening. The example disproves your claim that it could not happen. If you perhaps meant something more like "in general, you can't cite the subject directly", then you'd be right that a single example does not disprove your point. But you used quite unequivocal language.
- postingposts 5y agoIt’s similar to if someone in public who is a non-famous figure said something and it was recorded on a phone but not posted elsewhere. You can’t use the phone recording on the article. Now, let’s talk about why that’s stupid. are you happy you pedantic weasel?
- dang 5y agoHey can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that keep doing this kind of thing. I don't want to ban you (I don't think your comments are particularly malicious) so if you would please fix this, that would be good. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- postingposts 5y agoHi dang, I’ll read the guidelines and try to adhere to them carefully. That said, I’m not having much luck with other users being charitable in discussions, and that to behavior (being charitable) is something I’d like to mutually benefit both myself and others; if there is a way to be more approachable or clear I’d like to know. Thanks for responding to me, and I also like your bio. I think tension drives learning. :)
- dang 5y agoFWIW my advice would be to include enough information in your comments to disambiguate your intent (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=disambiguate%20burden%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for past explanations about that). It's all too easy to assume that other people know what we know, because the contents of our minds are obvious to us, but of course other people have no direct access to that; they only have access to the information you explicitly put in your messages. Most online misunderstandings, including uncharitable interpretations, seem to come from that. Beyond that, the only thing we can each do is raise our standards for ourselves and lower our standards for other people. That may sound unfair, but we're all biased in our own favor to begin with, so it's a balancing move.