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   by _bpgl 7y ago

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   Protein discovered inside a meteorite(phys.org)

   188 points by _bpgl 7y ago|60 comments
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   The Great American Eye Exam Scam(theatlantic.com)

   365 points by _bpgl 7y ago|331 comments
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   by _bpgl 8y ago

   > The well-known 10,000-hour principle, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, illustrates an important lesson for developers. ... It’s not often I’ll wholesale dismiss an article on HN because of one sentence, but this is one of those times.
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   ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice(theatlantic.com)

   315 points by _bpgl 8y ago|173 comments
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   by _bpgl 10y ago

   The first thing I feel I need to point out is that my horse in this race is not whether or not jobs will go away, but whether or not the original commenter to whom I was replying advanced the discussion at all with their remark. I think tha
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   by _bpgl 10y ago

   > People have said that it's only a matter of time...Yet it keeps not having happened just yet. That's incredibly facile. Were there solid state digital electronics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? Was there machi
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   by _bpgl 10y ago

   I think I tell this story every time there's an article about the STS on here. When I was a precocious space cadet, I followed the development of the Shuttle as closely as a kid could before the Internet. I remember the initial promise