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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 28 May 2019

    There are people who fix problems and people who complain about problems, and the two sets are remarkably disjoint.

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      2.  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @bayesianmarxist 28 May 2019
        Replying to @paulg

        I’d also make a bet that people who *create* problems intersect more with those who *fix* problems. It’s a can-do-attitude vs complaining

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      3. Husrev‏ @husrev_o 28 May 2019
        Replying to @bayesianmarxist @paulg

        Very interesting theory, and I'm not being sarcastic. I have been seeing can-do people code so much bugs that this makes sense to me.

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      2. Bill Stewart‏ @BillStewart415 28 May 2019
        Replying to @RickDronkers @paulg

        And in business, monetary opportunity is often correlated with fixing problems that lots of people are complaining about. The latter people are often called "customers" or "users".

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      1. Zerzar Bukhari‏ @ZerzarBukhari 28 May 2019
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        IME most people complain about problems, but that the latter set either has resolved it or is in the process of doing so

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      2. 黒田 東彦 stan‏ @HarperMitchell 28 May 2019
        Replying to @paulg @antoniogm

        There's basically no content to this statement...also in my experience the loudest complainers are also the people who spend the most time trying to fix systemic problems

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      3. 黒田 東彦 stan‏ @HarperMitchell 28 May 2019
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        黒田 東彦 stan Retweeted ProPublica

        To wit:https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1133297594271186944?s=19 …

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        NEW: When it comes to prisons, California has struggled to deal with a cascading series of problems and almost constant oversight by federal judges. https://propub.li/2K56lsy 
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      2. Romain de Wolff‏ @romaindewolff 28 May 2019
        Replying to @paulg

        French people are very well known for the 2nd.

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      3. Jakub Langr @cvpr2020 #masks4all‏ @LangrJakub 28 May 2019
        Replying to @romaindewolff @paulg

        Haha though I don't think it's just the French by any measure ;)

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      2. Leo Polovets‏ @lpolovets 28 May 2019
        Replying to @paulg

        Also, the set of complainers is much, much bigger than the set of fixers.

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      3. Scott Wainner‏Verified account @scottwww 28 May 2019
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        And louder

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