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In a country with statutory maternity leave the maximum maternity period is much longer than the average holiday (The UK allows up to a full year). So you have to fill the gap by hiring another developer with the same skills who is happy to work on a temporary contract which might be more difficult and expensive than finding someone seeking a permanent position especially if you require rare skills.

Industries where skills and certifications are more standarised don't seem to have this problem.

The concern is about what happens to people who are no longer employable if we cannot create new jobs for them? Will everyone be happy when a majority of the population depends entirely on charity and hand outs?

In the UK increases in tuition fees (by up to 3x) has had no effect on the diversity of university applicants. This is because repayments are income linked (and have an income floor) so that a graduate on a low income makes no repayments at all. Only those who earn a large salary will make significant repayments.

If tuition is funded by the government then this will force those without a university education to subsidise those who do go to university. Also university places would have to be limited to control costs.

That's a problem caused by people making poor choices rather than a problem with loan financing.

The student loan system allows more people from every social class to go to university and join the middle class. Loan repayments are linked to income after graduation so nobody has to pay back more than they can afford.

The problem is "brain drain". Educated people with in demand skills move to places where they can get the best compensation leaving behind people who are either retired or poor.

That depends on how much time it spends powered up. Someone in the market for a PC this cheap is probably not a heavy computer user.

x86 still has more software available and the option to run Windows.

What is the incentive for employers to do this?

A cargo cult understanding is probably superior to no understanding because science operates at different levels of abstraction. Most programmers have a cargo cult understanding of hardware for example.

Can you study "real science" without knowing the basic facts about atoms, elements/compounds and cells?

A car with a 2% failure rate would break down on average once every 50 years. How many cars from 1965 are still running today?

Large enterprises would continue to pay for support, individuals and small business might not. It could cut license sales in half.

A systems analyst is (usually) someone who is only semi technical and functions as a bridge between management , customers and technical people.

A software architect is usually a senior programmer or computer scientist who makes high level tech decisions.

At least, that's how I have always seen these titles used.

It also requires a man to make a child, so isn't it reasonable to expect the father to pay rather than the employer?

Everyone I knew who went into games knew what the conditions were before they joined. It's only bad if you don't have a backup plan.

What if you really enjoy working on games that much?

If people continue to work in the games industry despite the workload and pay they must be getting something out of it.

It does seem strange to me that so few people are paid to work full time on ruby etc (core tech) when you consider the massive total benefit from making ruby a few % faster or better. Why is the funding not there?

It is legal to watch shows that have already been broadcast without a license, and it's legal to watch netflix/DVDs without a license.

It is only illegal to watch or record live TV broadcast without a license. This applies regardless of whether you use a TV or BBC iPlayer to receive the broadcast. IANAL etc.

Is it declining? It would seem to be growing, but mainly amongst a certain demographic (who happen to have a lot of disposable income).

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, comics are no longer a mainstream entertainment medium compared to movies and videogames, so comic franchises are branching out into these areas.

Catering to a narrow but profitable niche is very common advice on HN.

My guess is that 18-35 year old single men who like superheroes outspend any other demographic by perhaps 10:1, presumably because they have the disposable income to do so.

Schools (at least in the UK) already teach chemistry, physics , biology and some electronics / woodwork. Why not add some CS/programming to that?

I very much doubt that YC is in a position to ask every applicant for proof of their family's income and assets , another factor to note is that many applicants are from overseas.

The YC article suggests that black and hispanic founders are slightly more likely to be funded by YC than other ethnicities. 3% of applicants to the batch were black or hispanic but 7.7% of funded founders in the batch were black or hispanic.

The article you linked does not seem to adjust for demographics of the applicants, it only discusses those who were funded.

The problem is that this can be very skewed, especially for younger people by their economic background.

How could YC even be able to calculate that?

If tickets became that much cheaper we might expect profits to rise because if cheap tickets were only $5 then customers might decide that it was worth paying $15 for a more comfortable seat.

The immigration debates in other threads are another example of this, and to an extent debates about intellectual property.