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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His entire argument is literally debunked by Veritaseum's other video about game theory and cooperation. Nobody will be nice to a corporation where everybody knows the board members always will defect against you.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

True, and I think he wasn't compensated enough. But giving him hundreds of millions is a bit much as well. If they gave him 8 million at the very start without going to court that would have been a good bonus