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by yummypaint 8y ago
I agree with you up to the last paragraph. It sounds to me like the led is reverse biased like a silicon particle detector. A normal led works by combining electrons and holes to make photons, in this case hole-electron pairs are made by li
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by yummypaint 8y ago
I wonder to what extent holding scientifically accepted beliefs about free-will alters ones experience of this phenomenon. I could understand how it might be terrifying to people with judeo-christian beliefs, but what about someone who is a
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by yummypaint 8y ago
If you don't visit HN too frequently, try jumping several pages in. I don't have quantitative evidence to support this, but my experience is that useful content spends a while loitering around the 100-250 mark, while lower s/
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by yummypaint 8y ago
It was always clear
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by yummypaint 8y ago
its the same amount of money, but not their pay
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by yummypaint 8y ago
I hope people trapped in toxic or unsafe work environments use this opportunity to ghost and make it a more common tactic. I think of it as a one time strike that your employer is powerless to prevent. Eventually management will catch on an
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by yummypaint 8y ago
The whole point of a corporation is to protect the liability of the individuals in the company. I would argue Boeing and Microsoft are the correct entities to blame. After all, if the people who actually fucked up aren't individually l
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by yummypaint 8y ago
I think the idea of piracy as civil disobedience is a new dimension that has emerged recently. Reading these clippings i get the impression that software was much more compartmentalized from the rest of life.
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by yummypaint 8y ago
Despite how little neutrinos interact with matter, my understanding is that much of the pressure that actually drives a supernova explosion is caused by them. Their mean free path in lead is about a light year, so imagine how many neutrinos
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by yummypaint 10y ago
f22 raptor