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The demand for inconvenient truths is always lower than the demand for reassuring lies. My tone is as polite as I could make it while making the points that I
by jemfinch 15y ago
The demand for inconvenient truths is always lower than the demand for reassuring lies. My tone is as polite as I could make it while making the points that I believe needed to be made.
- up_and_up 15y agoLol. I said "tome". As in a lengthy diatribe. The "tone" of your comment seemed fine.
- zasz 15y agoI thought you'd made a typo. A "tome" is a heavy book, not a lengthy diatribe. The book could be a lengthy diatribe, but it could also be an annotated edition of The Odyssey. I suppose you could have called a long comment a "tome" out of playfulness, but it wasn't the clearest choice of words.
- omarchowdhury 15y agoThe tone in his usage of the word tome reminds me of tl;dr, or rather, tl; did read but will not argue your points. Although the original post does come off as ad hominem.
- frou_dh 15y ago"ad hominem" is totally going on the HN bingo card :)
- waterlesscloud 15y agoRight next to "Dunning-Kruger", I hope. Actually, it's always "Dunning-Kruger" with a link to the wikipedia article to make it more authoritative.