Yeah as a New Yorker and someone that's lived in the Boston to Washington megalopolis basically my whole life, a lot of Europe feels very familiar. I felt right at home in Lisbon.
Also Environmental regulations are like vaccines. They're victims of their own success. In the late 1960s early 1970s, before the EPA, the air and water in the US was a disaster. The EPA documented it:
Yes, but only as a fun retro thing. Not for most calculations, although I have to say for back of the napkin, almost all in your head style things, they can be handy.
Yeah, honestly, smartphones are a very mature category now. Only so much you can do with them. Same with laptops and desktops. Plenty of improvements to be made, but those yearly wow factors are just not coming back.
Cheap and generous flash storage would make me wow and come back immediately and forget all sins. Somehow they never dangle that though. Blame iCloud drive subscription for perverting incentives I guess. Headphone jack coming back would have me camping outside the store for midnight release.
That’s a popular trend in video games, too; quite a lot of people invest a second hobby’s worth of energy into their complaints, with the occasional gem in the rough among them. You can find this in any hobby - like, I know nothing about golf, but I am absolutely certain if I asked a golfer “what changed in golf clubs recently? are you still happy with them?” I am near-certain to get a lengthy spoken history of club design and manufacturing flaws. Humans are most irritable about their most favored topics.
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