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    1. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 13 Apr 2020

      what is the modern equivalent of wealthy florentine bankers paying artists to make some of the greatest art that defined their generation? we have a rocketeer and a anti-malaria guy, but who's making epic sculptures, cathedrals, maybe a grand library? yachts are boring, man

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    2. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 13 Apr 2020

      if I were a multi-millionaire I would fund dumb things for shits and giggles – if I were a multi-billionaire I think I would do something like "The Alexandria Project". Recreate the Library of Alexandria but with the spirit of modern times. Accelerate science and literature

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    3. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 13 Apr 2020

      visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖 Retweeted c a s e

      hold my beerhttps://twitter.com/duskparade/status/1249782844060098561 …

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      No one tries to impress God these days
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    4. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 14 Apr 2020

      re: the Islamic Golden Age, Baghdad https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/dZTMadHhn?help …pic.twitter.com/CTO037olDc

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    5. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 14 Apr 2020

      Interesting bit from Bertrand Russell about the Dutch golden age, resonates with @DavidDeutschoxf's riffs about conjecture and criticismpic.twitter.com/vfizFuZXYq

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    6. visa is almost done  ✍🏾 📖‏ @visakanv 14 Apr 2020

      Ludwig Wittgenstein and and Karl Popper were both born in Vienna within 3 years of each other (1889, 1902) My first thought was "wow, that's so lucky for Vienna", but then I'm reminded of @paulg's point about cities and ambition: http://paulgraham.com/cities.html pic.twitter.com/fpzhvvbBmr

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    7. Amy #BlackLivesMatter‏ @amyhoy 14 Apr 2020
      Replying to @visakanv @paulg

      as with most of pg's core arguments, there's a fatal (and extremely simple) flaw in this one. the phrase is "heard of." the idea that "someone who doesn't know art knows your name x100 years later = success in your lifetime."

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    8. Amy #BlackLivesMatter‏ @amyhoy 14 Apr 2020
      Replying to @amyhoy @visakanv @paulg

      pg likes to use areas he knows little to nothing about as the crux of his arguments, which is weird bc he could just write them as opinions and be fine. guess he has never heard of van eyck, bosch, bruegel, or holbein… all painters of greater innovation than the italians.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Apr 2020
      Replying to @amyhoy @visakanv

      Bruegel is one of my favorite painters. That's why I put one of his Towers of Babel on the cover of Hackers and Painters. But he worked in the sixteenth century, not the fifteenth. As did Holbein.

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        1. George‏ @user79826 14 Apr 2020
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          generous response

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