{"id":1068513046908338200,"conversation_id":"1068513046908338177","created_at":1543588337000,"date":"2018-11-30","time":"14:32:17","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Remember retail stores? They were local caches of consumer products, owned by individual people who stocked them based on predictions of demand. No, really, some of them were great. People used to visit them for fun. That's what \"shopping\" originally meant.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":49,"retweets_count":174,"likes_count":942,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1068513046908338177","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1066589496974680000,"conversation_id":"1066589496974680064","created_at":1543129727000,"date":"2018-11-25","time":"07:08:47","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"One of the most important tests of the repressiveness of a policy, and one which you can apply independently of whether you agree with its goals, is how many innocent people it hits for each guilty one.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":45,"likes_count":339,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1066589496974680064","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1065503170883924000,"conversation_id":"1065503170883923968","created_at":1542870726000,"date":"2018-11-22","time":"07:12:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Prediction: Trump's behavior will become more outrageous, not more conciliatory, as he grows weaker. Scary to think where his lower limit is.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":39,"retweets_count":86,"likes_count":847,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1065503170883923968","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1065193656083193900,"conversation_id":"1065181371356844032","created_at":1542796932000,"date":"2018-11-21","time":"10:42:12","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Several people have asked for examples of the latter. Here are three: Lisp, the essay, angel investing.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":15,"retweets_count":25,"likes_count":229,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1065193656083193857","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1065181371356844000,"conversation_id":"1065181371356844032","created_at":1542794003000,"date":"2018-11-21","time":"09:53:23","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"There are two places to find new ideas: places no one has looked before, and places where people have looked, but not hard enough. Kids are taught that big ideas come from the former, but the latter may actually be more promising.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":61,"retweets_count":628,"likes_count":2370,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1065181371356844032","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1065164282311123000,"conversation_id":"1065164282311122944","created_at":1542789929000,"date":"2018-11-21","time":"08:45:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Saw a headline mentioning a hedge fund, and briefly thought it meant something like the National Trust, but for ancient hedges. Progress.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":3,"retweets_count":4,"likes_count":41,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1065164282311122944","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1063885037190426600,"conversation_id":"1063883846842765312","created_at":1542484933000,"date":"2018-11-17","time":"20:02:13","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"(From Concorde: The Inside Story, by Geoffrey Knight, who was in charge of BAC's Commercial Aircraft Division, and thus the British side of Concorde development.)","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":2,"retweets_count":1,"likes_count":8,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1063885037190426624","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1063883846842765300,"conversation_id":"1063883846842765312","created_at":1542484649000,"date":"2018-11-17","time":"19:57:29","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"Hair-raising quote that shows how far the UK went toward central planning:\n\n\"By early 1956 [the RAE] had come to the conclusion in theory that the inevitable next stage must be the development of a supersonic commercial transport. It was time for government to intervene.\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":7,"retweets_count":0,"likes_count":30,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1063883846842765312","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1062285541369110500,"conversation_id":"1062284483246899200","created_at":1542103584000,"date":"2018-11-13","time":"10:06:24","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"And if you can't explain why they're wrong, you've just gotten a bug report about your company that might be more valuable than the funding you were seeking.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":10,"retweets_count":24,"likes_count":354,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1062285541369110529","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1062285217573077000,"conversation_id":"1062284483246899200","created_at":1542103506000,"date":"2018-11-13","time":"10:05:06","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"In fact, if you try this exercise in the middle of fundraising instead of waiting till the end, you may not fail after all.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":4,"retweets_count":7,"likes_count":199,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1062285217573076994","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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{"id":1062284483246899200,"conversation_id":"1062284483246899200","created_at":1542103331000,"date":"2018-11-13","time":"10:02:11","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"I bet I've heard 100 startups explain why they failed to raise money, and I don't think I've heard one say that the reason was that their company seemed unpromising. And yet that is almost always the reason in the investors' minds.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":56,"retweets_count":283,"likes_count":1466,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1062284483246899200","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1061575518741581800,"conversation_id":"1061575518741581824","created_at":1541934301000,"date":"2018-11-11","time":"11:05:01","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"6 yo gets bloody nose:\n\n6 yo: I'm going to die of blood loss!\n\nMe: No you're not. No one dies of bloody noses.\n\n6 yo: Actually, blood tastes kind of good...\n\nMe: Maybe you're a vampire.\n\n6 yo: I'm not. I can't turn into a bat.","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":5,"retweets_count":14,"likes_count":258,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1061575518741581824","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
{"id":1060875563336982500,"conversation_id":"1060875563336982528","created_at":1541767419000,"date":"2018-11-09","time":"12:43:39","timezone":"UTC","user_id":183749519,"username":"paulg","name":"Paul Graham","place":"","tweet":"An honest answer to \"Why do your opponents disagree with you?\" probably has to begin \"Because they think we are…\" rather than \"Because they are….\"","mentions":[],"urls":[],"photos":[],"replies_count":14,"retweets_count":100,"likes_count":520,"hashtags":[],"cashtags":[],"link":"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1060875563336982528","retweet":false,"quote_url":"","video":0,"near":"","geo":"","source":"","user_rt_id":"","user_rt":"","retweet_id":"","reply_to":[{"user_id":"183749519","username":"paulg"}],"retweet_date":""}
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