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The school can send you an text message to inform you your kid will quit 2 hours early. Problem solved.

> With the invention of air conditioning and an abundance of solar power during the desert day, it's pretty stupid to let the weather dictate your behavior.

Not everyone works in an office, though.

You say you are not convinced but you give no explanation about why. Would you, please ?

So ?

"Talent shortage" is not the same as "people shortage". If you ever took part in recruiting, you know that most of the people you end up interviewing are not fit for the particular job you are offering. There's a lot of people in CS/IT, each with varying skills on various technologies.You can't just ask for a "software engineer", that doesn't exist (anymore). The field is growing more and more specialized, so you must impose interview processes, those being ridiculous and long are each recruiter's choice.

why are you talking about America ? Parent did not. You also seem to confuse America with USA.

you mean *DSL? The issue lies with the copper pair and the frequencies used. And of course the hardware in-between. So between 10 and 120Mbits/s.

Sociology is already the science of everything social (that is, people, human society).

Multiplayer games are also boring. I just bought Battlefield 1, because I read there was a great solo campaign. I hope it will be fun, and I've no intention to multiplay that. I'm 36, and I really did like war games before they were that much multiplayer oriented. Call of Duty and Battlefield series had great solo campaigns, jadis. Then for a decade, there was this multiplayer trend. Being obliterated by teenagers, cursing your mom, being much greater than you. That was no fun at all. When I buy a game (especially a ~70€ worth game), I expect to have fun. I guess I'm not a great gamer, I can't spend 8 hours a day playing, so I suck at multiplayer shooting games. But I LOVE solo campaigns. I can quit, then rejoin 2 hours later, I can become better, finish a hard mission, and I'm happy with myself. I can't do this on multiplayer campaigns. Those kids are way better than me, so much better than I can't get fun. Single player games are great, also. I LOVED Metal Gear Solid V, even if it was not finished. I loved it because I could play alone, replay if I failed a mission, redo it better if I wanted to. I'm not a great player, but I still want to have fun. So multplayer games are not for me, and that's a shame.

It's funny that I thought the same thing but from the other side, "it seems a really good news for Uber 'employees' (or workers or whatever you want to call them)". That's something I always try to keep in mind while reading HN, most of us are well paid to do something we love, many of us are entrepreneurs (whatever that means, again), and most (?) of us are americans. Uber drivers are not well paid, and if they are they work 26 hours a day in LA or NYC or any big rich city and don't know if they still will earn enough money in one or two years because Uber will change their contract or let them go if they refuse.

EAN means "European Article Numbering".

I worked for some months on the printer industry (on the image processing side). Innovation is not a word we used a lot. A printer is basically a microcontroller driving a DSP doing some image processing (scaling and dithering mostly). The µC then sends that to another µC driving the different motors. The DSP is a generic component used by half the industry. The other half used another DSP. Both the µCs are generic components used by half the industry. The other half, you know the drill.

It was maybe 7 years ago, and I guess now they have a single µC containing the DSP and able to speak USB, do the dithering, and control the motors all in one package. There is almost no R&D in those markets. That's how you get a $20 printer (and $50 ink cartridges).

Do no count on printing on PCBs or fabric, that'll be R&D, and that's expensive, no one cares up there.

Not all laptop keyboards suck. My (old model) Thinkpad keyboard is really good. I even use it on my desktops (home and work) https://sc02.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1vYX2KXXXXXarXVXXq6xXFXXXp/Gen...

> "Ideal" growth of an economy is 3%

Would you mind to source and explain that ?

I don't understand how it is a PhD project, at MIT nonetheless. From http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html I get it is not much of a technical projet, more like a sociological one (how hard can it be for a layman, is that useful, why, etc.), but I don't understand what the challenges are.

Can you explain how it useful as a research project ? What are you expecting to learn overall ?

Thank you.