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Albert, you continue to engage in unnecessary personal attacks and straw man arguments. Why make a conversation a personal attack? Please stop. You have no pl
by happytiger 3y ago
Albert, you continue to engage in unnecessary personal attacks and straw man arguments. Why make a conversation a personal attack?
Please stop.
You have no place acting like this on Hacker News. Read the rules.
Critique of the arguments vs criticism of the person, please.
Also, if you want to have a constructive conversation with someone, insulting them as a lead isn’t… great.
I’m sorry for the typo. It happens. Doesn’t make me an idiot. When I find people making typos, I don’t feel a need to demonstrate my questionable bias towards non-native speakers with a superior complex either: how do you think that would genuinely make a non-native speaker feel? Not great.
People make typos in casual communication (have you typed on a phone recently, it only works because of spell check!). It doesn’t make them lower on the totem pole or worth “going after” personally. What it does is it makes me someone who made a typo (the horror).
I wish you the best, but please stop making it unnecessarily personal.
This isn’t Usenet in 1993, and I’m allowed to dislike the arguments of public intellectuals as long as my arguments and criticisms are cogent. I’m not making jokes about the man’s mother, sir.
I don’t need to be personally bullied or called ‘a poor’ for not being as successful as the person I’m providing a critique about. That’s an overly personal attack that doesn’t have anything to do with the criticisms I’m levying toward him.
I would normally ignore such behavior, but this is a small community and you’re a public person, so I feel compelled to say something. Please don’t do this to others. Be well, HN friend.
I’m going to try to engage more in this forum, but obit if you think I belong. Maybe I should practice my English a bit moar.
- AlbertCory 3y agoIf you hadn't made these wild accusations (also inaccurate and ignorant) about a person whom I happen to have met, then none of this would have transpired. You clearly know nothing about Mr. Taleb and his books, and I will feel free to say so whenever you demonstrate it. You started it.
- happytiger 3y ago> You started it. Are you actually 12?
- AlbertCory 3y agoYou are in way over your head. Just cut your losses and go away.