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Re:Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb by namanyayg on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:51AM (#19475805)
Seems like you've higher chances on stumbling on something accidentally useful when you're trying to do difficult things rather than when not
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Re:Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb by benj111 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:08AM (#19476116)
Well yes, that's what I was talking about with making your own luck.

My point was that any discussion of IP revolves around work put in, and skill demonstrated. But a lot of the folklore is based on chance discovery.

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