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Re:Lead Bullets (2011) by kcorbitt on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @06:22PM (#5789605)
I think the connotation of "silver bullet" in this post is an extraordinary idea that solves the problem definitively by changing the rules. A lead bullet, by contrast, acknowledges the current field of play and just plays it better. Less glamorous, but still plenty deadly.
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Re:Lead Bullets (2011) by mturmon on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:06AM (#5790866)
These elemental analogies are reminding me of the Manhattan project.

One silver bullet (E = m c^2 and Einstein's letter to Roosevelt) and some lead bullets (the long slog of building huge industrial plants to purify the uranium). Maybe sometimes you need both.

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