"However, while MIT's diode puts out more than twice as much energy in photons as it's fed in electrons, it doesn't violate the conservation of energy because it appears to draw in heat energy from its surroundings instead."
This actually sounds legit. Keep in mind, 69 picowatts is next to nothing, so it's anybody's guess whether this will scale.
Ritalin taker here. The other day I was on vitamin R and noticed for a twentieth of a second that someone started a vacuum cleaner while I was focussing on something boring. Ten minutes later I was still going strong and notice that so is the vacuum cleaner.
Two things: first, by all means put in the work to find an ADD regimen that works. It makes a huge difference. I now take Strattera (60 mg) and Ritalin (80 mg), but had to slough through a lot of duds (maybe 5 different ones) to get there. I experienced a huge difference between amphetamine and non-amphetamine stimulants.
More pertin made a gigantic difference for me was fish oil (the kind you buy in softgels). I talked to my psych about using a lot of fish oil (10+ pills a day) and he said, sure. I started learning all kinds of skills much, much faster. Like 5x faster.
So, one really easy thing you can do is talk about different stimulant and fish oil with your psychiatrist.
You're presenting a false dichotomy between staying completely silent and putting something on the internet. A victim can limit him/herself to talking to the police, his/her community, HR, the principal, his/her friends, his/her acquaintances, etc. The victim can also blog about it once the accused party is found guilty. Until then, putting something like this in writing is considered "bad" (if it's false), broadly speaking, by society, which is the reason behind libel laws.
> As to your "shit like this shouldn't be blogged about" comment,
He didn't write what you quoted.
> Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that victims of sexual discrimination stay silent?
Even though the false dichotomy has been presented to you you are still sticking with it.
I am advocating that the soldier's story of a grave misstep by a person not be presented one-sided with no opportunity for recourse in a very public manner on a very high-traffic blog.
If the conference organizers issued a response, is there ANY doubt that it will make it to the front page of HN?
I agree that it would likely end up being an endless series of accusations and counter-accusations, but it is not as if an accusation is being made with no chance to respond.
I'd add the only caveat is that bouncing around too much (like never holding a job down for more than a year, doesn't sound like you) can turn people off.
I've worked for 4 companies in 5 years (avg of 15 months per employer), and it doesn't seem to bother new employers. I can always spin it as "we finished our one year roadmap and I'm looking for a challenge that my current company can't provide." Besides, at each company I've worked for, the average lifespan of a developer seems to be about one year on average, 2 max.
If and when it does become a problem (i.e. interviewers start saying "this pattern looks disturbing"), the worst that happens is that it gets harder to get new job offers, and I stay at my current job a little longer, knowing that I got an average of 19% per year in pay increases while the average Joe (if he's lucky) got 5% per year, or in the OP's case 2.5% every other year.
