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		henryford on July 7, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Lose Time and Money On the other hand you needed those 2 dead ends in order to establish that one way, and only one way, is the right one. You cannot expect yourself to be that foresightet.

nileshtrivedi on July 7, 2010 [–]

Not just that. You also end up with the knowledge that those 2 paths were actually dead-ends. It's important to know solutions that will NOT work.

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