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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Sep 2017

    Startup founders troubled by trolls (i.e. every successful one) should hang this excerpt from an 1878 NYT editorial in their office.pic.twitter.com/2K68Qyg3ic

    11:58 PM - 22 Sep 2017
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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Sep 2017

        Via @calestous, who got it from this article:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …

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      1. tebarek  ☕️‏ @tebarekT 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        @breitwoman best response that every critic should read is from Anton Ego - ratatouille 😊pic.twitter.com/Ut2upO3gi0

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      1. Jake Teufert  🇺🇸 ❄ 🚀‏ @jteufert 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        NYT article "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" is another great go to. Orville Wright's diary on same day reads "We started assembly today."

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      2. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        I appreciate the cheeky tone compared to the accusatory anger of trolls nowadays though.

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      3. andrew pikul‏ @misterpikul 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @firasd @paulg

        the cheeky tone of a casual lynching?

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      4. Firas Durri‏ @firasd 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @misterpikul @paulg

        Here's the full article, it's clearly somewhat tongue-in-cheekhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …

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      5. andrew pikul‏ @misterpikul 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @firasd @paulg

        oh you mean "clearly" in the way an engineering textbook author skips a mathematical derivation because it's "obvious to the reader"

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      6. Parvesh Deosarran  🐢‏ @PADeosarran 23 Sep 2017
        Replying to @misterpikul @firasd @paulg

        This is what i hated about textbooks😡 at the University. I would head to a library to find books with 'the missing derivation' explained😞😞😞

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      1. Jon Zornow  🚀‏ @jonzornow 23 Sep 2017
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        Being fair, the singing doll is definitely creepy enough to be of mildly deleterious characterpic.twitter.com/0Wb43WO0kx

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      1. drank beer, still do‏ @gasnerpants 23 Sep 2017
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        this is solid gold from a long dead anonymous alcoholic. trolls rule 4eva. @ChuckBaggett @SonjaTrauss

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      1. Did it!‏ @dmilanp 23 Sep 2017
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        What Ayn Rand called "the looters"

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      1. Lucy R. Fisher‏ @richmondie 23 Sep 2017
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        "They didn't have all these innovations when I was young!"

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      1. Jay Sanchez‏ @SanchizeUnfltrd 23 Sep 2017
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        Holy cow wow!? 😂🤣😆

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      1. silentwork‏ @bkamit100 13 Oct 2017
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        f*cking americans who granted world of patents to this highly im-moral and in-ept man who exploited the real brains of this century

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      1. Two slow breaths, then tweet.‏ @Hidden_Sanity 24 Sep 2017
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        Agree with the sentiment, but Edison is kinda a bad example given how many things he merely claimed credit for, not invented.

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      1. Anurag Baveja‏ @AnuragBaveja 24 Sep 2017
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        For once NYT was right. It was Tesla who suffered the most. We had been way more advanced if AC was adopted sooner

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      1. John Wesey‏ @johnwesey 24 Sep 2017
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        Nothing is new under the sun...

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      1. Tom Fitzpatrick‏ @fitzsnaggle 23 Sep 2017
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        If you meet the buddha on the rode, kill him

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