I think that after every 3rd wave of Missile Command (what a disgustingly irresponsible creation!!), the game should require that the player's parents check to make sure the player isn't getting depressed by the prospect of nuclear war.

And in Asteroids, after any ship destruction due to collision with an asteroid, the game should require parental attestation that the player isn't starting to develop symptoms of petraphobia.

In both cases, if the parents aren't available (e.g. dead because the player is in their 80s) I suppose a Notary Public or a AMA-certified doctor would be a good-enough replacement.

We have learned so much since the early days of computer games, and it's better to be safe than sorry. (But don't fuck with Joust! I want to be able to play without having to call my mom every time the Lava Troll touches my mount's legs inappropriately.)

With the demands of life being what they are, this is much easier said than done.

If we are both 22, but you spent the last 4 years working on a political science degree and I spent the last 4 years working one or more no-post-high-school-education-required non-IT-related jobs, the answer will probably depend on the "prospects for advancement" in the company and whether those prospects would benefit from someone who had a 4-year non-technical degree.

If we are both 22 but you spent the last 4 years in something related to IT or to something else that gets the hiring manager's attention (say, we are applying for an IT job at a children's camp, and you've been doing children's-camp-ajacent work the last 4 years), you may have the leg up.

Unless you've got something equivalent or better to compensate.

Resume:

Work experience:

2020-2025 Senior Director of Widgets, Fortune 500 Company
2010-2020 Various positions of increasing responsibility in my parent's medium-sized Widget-making company, ending as Junior Vice President

Education:

2006-2010 Local High School, 4.0 GPA

In this case, the person had something unavailable to most: A guaranteed placement in a company that would nurture his career right out of high school. 10 years later he knew he had to leave the family business to broaden his horizons. By then, he was being recruited so finding a senior position with a big-name company wasn't hard.

Situations like these are unicorns, they are the exceptions that prove your rule.

"Working through school" is a good way to do it if you can swing it.

For some majors, undergraduate-research-assistant or industry-university-partnership between-semester jobs can help you graduate without any debt.

There are even some schools that have working during the school year to zero-out tuition as part of their educational model.

For decades until very recently, at degree that combined in-demand-upon-enrollment technical studies with a solid business education would meet this criteria. If your graduate date coincided with a "job bust" of your technical skills, you could fall back to your business education. If it didn't, you were still more valuable that someone with the technical skills but little or no business education.

I say "until very recently" because ChatGPT-style AI is very "disruptive" to the entry-level job market so it's too soon to say whether this is true for people who graduated in the last 2-3 years or who will be graduating in the near future.

The hard part is doing what amounts to a double-major (or more) without extending graduation (and tuition) more than a semester.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

If you plan in "eventually" getting that degree, it's going to be easier to "go straight on through college after high school" than it will be to "work for a decade then go back."

Whether it's an apprenticeship, community college, a less-challenging college/major, or a hard-core-brain-buster degree, it's a lot easier to learn new things before mid-life than after. There's some brain science to back this up, but I don't have the references handy, sorry. Look up "fluid intelligence" and "crystallized intelligence" and their relationship to age.

For most people, it's also a lot easier to manage your time before you have a "full time job" or are raising children.

That's not to say you can't go back to school full-time to get your Ph.D. when you are 70, but it's going to be a lot easier if you do it earlier in life.

It won't be cheap for you, but you can file a trademark suit against the fake company then subpoena apple for the company's contact info and enough additional information that it costs Apple enough time and money to be annoying.

When the other company doesn't respond to the suit, or if they are out of the country, get a default judgement and an injunction to force Apple to remove the fake listing, at least in the country you are filing suit in.

If enough victims did this, Apple would find it very annoying financially and reputationally and might start being more pro-active about deleting trademark-infringers.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

I ask them to visit the app store, search for Microsoft Authenticator, then I ask them things like "how many ratings does it have?" It's very difficult to match the real Microsoft Authenticator app for the number of ratings.

The Federal Reserve is only getting a response rate of approximately 42% when it sends out its surveyes. Since they only send out a little over one thousand surveys, trying to guesstimate policy for an entire country based on that response rate is effectively impossible.

First, their sample size is too small to begin with. They should sample at least three times the number they currently do. Second, who they sample also needs expanded. Getting a response from Corning is significantly different than getting a response from Billy Bob's Downhome Fried Chicken in Bumfook, Louisiana.

This lack of response, as this article relates, carries over into people getting surveys. Being asked 5-10 questions is far different than being given a booklet of 100 questions to answer. You need to make it easy for people to respond. Blind calling no longer works, as many on here have pointed out. Send people a letter with uniquely identifiable information they can use to complete a survey online. Since they won't be handing out their personal information it will make it easier for people to respond. Just use the code given and keep it down to a few questions.

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

I think you mean "not used often enough to warrant the price of SSD storage" not "too large for SSD storage."

If you think a multi-petabyte file is too big to fit on SSD storage: combining multiple physical storage devices into one virtual device has been a thing for a long time now.