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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years 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

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