[bshimmin]

I offer no commentary on the actual content, but this is a truly horrible piece of writing - almost every sentence is clunky, poorly phrased, ungrammatical, or repetitive. I guess you don't need to be able to write decent prose to make $18B!

[capableweb]

What a boring comment. Unfortunately, this comment reveals more about you as a person than it does about Ray Dalio for putting out that article. Too bad writing pessimistic comments about others on HN doesn't earn you any money, otherwise you could have made some too!

I'd love it if your comment could raise the same point as you did, but also include examples of the poor sentences and how it could be better. Then at least we could have learned something. Instead you went for the shallow dismissal. Boring.

[paulluuk]

The fact that you chose to comment on a "negative comment" simply by stating that it is "boring" and "pessimistic" is pretty funny.

[capableweb]

I understand and appreciate the irony for sure :) I have a small tick that I cannot downvote someone on HN without explaining why, even though the author won't actually know I was the one downvoting. But downvoting without explaining why, feels wasteful. At least now I get to explain why I feel that comment doesn't live up to the HN standard.

[jcranmer]

I wasn't originally planning on reading the article itself, but I had to skim it as a result of your comment just to see how bad it was for myself.

In fact, I saw none of your suggested horribleness. Okay, I immediately don't like its rhetoric (the first paragraph basically implies the only reason not to like Bitcoin is sour grapes), but that's not bad writing. The only bad habit I see is the tendency to put a comma-separated clause one or two words into the sentence instead of at the beginning, e.g.: "That, like creating the existing credit-based monetary system, is of course a type of alchemy," but even that isn't a particularly frequent occurrence.

[bshimmin]

Obviously my comment wasn't at all substantive (and thus richly deserves the downvotes it has received!), and clearly my opinion on this piece of writing isn't a popular one either, but surely it's hard to argue that...

"In fact I assume that better ones will come along and displace this one because that is the way the evolution of everything works—i.e., new ways of doing things and new things always have and always will replace old ways of doing things and old things."

...is not exactly vintage writing!

[offtop5]

I mean, it can be argued his no nonsense style of writing is exactly why he's successful.

He didn't waste time and money sending this to some ivy league educated kid for a proofreading session. I've even heard one theory that the higher up in a company you get the shorter emails tend to be, simply because the folks writing those emails don't have time to waste.

In fact the coolest thing about English is just how much flexibility exist in the language, from my studies of Asian languages this just doesn't exist to nearly the same scale.

[loceng]

I don't downvote, so none of the downvotes are from me, however instead I'll try to learn: what examples would you consider as well-written in comparison?

So far from what I've read, it's extremely well-written; the repetition is to drill in specific points - just take it for that and not be annoyed by it, as it's not done in an annoying way - at least for how far I've read through so far.

[agumonkey]

Nor becoming president.

It seems humanity is on firesale this days.