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Exactly!

I was shocked to learn that the latency from laptop to ear is higher than to the other side of the planet.

Most people don't notice the adverse psychological aspects of this:

People get really annoyed by when constantly talking over each other. It subconciously makes you dread talking to the other person.

When everybody is using wired headphones, you suddenly like your coworkers more!



And then there are apps/OSes that set the mic gain at like 5% of max, so everyone else has to put their volume at 95%.

We should probably get off hacker news and just start building a teleconferencing app.


Since it’d be twice as good as Meet, we could call it Duo! Oh wait…


More than twice as good it would "zoom" past the competition... shit.




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