Paul Graham on Twitter: "There's a lesson here: the better you are, the more preposterous the theories people will invent to explain your (real or apparent) lapses. If GMail were run by a less competent organization, my initial guess would have been the correct one: that it was down."

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1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 14 Dec 2020
  "Paul, did you do something to cause GMail to be shut down? Because it wasn't working earlier." — Jessica just now
  
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1. Ronak Sutaria‏ @rsutaria 14 Dec 2020
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  My first reaction was gmail was pissed off with me & decided to shut-down my account. Had started to think how to apologies for my lapses and to reinstate the account
  
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1. political animal‏ @polit_beast 14 Dec 2020
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  Hahaha. So companies with a good brand name are more likely to be trusted in case of failure. Same leeway not given to an unknown company
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1. Jared Palmer‏ @jaredpalmer 14 Dec 2020
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  The Titanic might have altered course if the captain was less experienced
  
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1. Gianluca Gindro‏ @GianlucaGindro 14 Dec 2020
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  With intelligence it can come the worst of evil. We like children because they are still naive.
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1. Iain Holder‏ @IainHolder 14 Dec 2020
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  It’s a front page story on the BBC. Twitter used to have what felt like daily outages
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1. Tomáš Tomša‏ @tomas_tomsa 14 Dec 2020
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  Not sure what a tar file is but other than that agree
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1. Bruce Bassett‏ @cosmo_bruce 14 Dec 2020
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  Hanlon's razor! "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
  
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