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by iamben 1311 days ago
"Kid - you'll never be an astronaut/actor/president/cure cancer. You might as well give up now."
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s3r3nity 1311 days ago
Lol THOSE are actually useful / interesting / hard problems worthwhile solving - or at least working through.

We need more computational biologists solving protein folding problems or the like to cure humanity’s greatest ills. NOT a todo app with a new sticker on it.

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iamben 1310 days ago
Right.

But no kid starts as a computational biologist solving protein folding problems.

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