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!

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

This is the part where I mention how Bose, despite making a $300 headset, didn't put a pin/wire on the wired connection for the mic.

(I usually use the laptop mic nonetheless, though, because for some reason if you want to record audio with bluetooth, the quality of the audio output becomes potato.)