Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

Plus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter. NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment? You might want to see this: ▶ this video

Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy Maybe we need to watch this tube to see things in a more balanced way: ▶ this video

Refuse? Refuse? You can fly to the US - some 4000 miles away in 7.5 hrs for the East Coast and 11 hours for the West coast. You then may have a little bit of a wait at immigration (or not as the case may be). I've gone through in 5 minutes and one time it was 45 minutes. Seeing as you state you're in the UK, you also eligible for the VWP which means you can travel to the US whenever you like. Just consider what it was like to travel before the invention of the airplane, or the steam ship. Please appreciate that you live in a time when travelling the world is very very easy. And please watch ▶ this video

> The communist anti-capitalism rhetoric Black and white much? This idea that everything that's anti-capitalist or anti-stupid-ways-we-spend-money is communist is absurd. The anti-capitalism rhetoric of the "mid-1900's" was a full-on propaganda campaign put out by government agencies and supported by the very real threat of nuclear total annihilation. Comparing a complaint about the stupid ways we spend money and organize our priorities to the Cold War is a bit of a stretch. I fear communist comparisons are becoming the new Godwin's law. In reality, the guilt mentality discussed above is much more similar to the ultra-realist perspective of the comedy of Louis CK— ▶ this video —in that it is ridiculous that we have the immediate concerns that we do, but is, in fact, entirely true, and it's observant and useful to point that out. It is not, however, communist.

Honest about what? Guilt? Should we, as humans, crawl back into our caves and claim resource limitations as the cause? Claim greed was our downfall? Claim that this was all just too much for the human race? I might be a romantic, but it seems to me that focusing on ways to make all peoples lives better is what we should continue to do. We should be technologically solving that which has plagued humanity the most: limited energy and resources. We shouldn't be spending our time focusing on conservation. We should be focusing on how to make conservation un-necessary. Only then, will poverty go away. Maybe, just maybe, the ideas like mining asteroids, fusion, nano-technology, and AI, just to name a few, are silly. However, they are a lot less silly than creating artificial centrally planed markets like carbon offsets to alleviate poverty. That being said I leave this: ▶ this video .

I think your post was tongue-in-cheek, and it is maybe one of my favorite HN posts ever. That said, I get a little bummed that there are no Back to the Future 2-style hoverboards, that I don't have a personal flying car, and that I still have to shower every day. I'd love a polymorphic phone screen, and am bummed that this display isn't that. Just out of curiosity, I rubbed some Vaseline in my ear just now, and must admit that it is more of a bummer than the lack of polymorphic phone screens. "Everything is amazing, and nobody's happy" ▶ this video

That Louis C. K. bit helps me out in such situations. :-) ▶ this video "And then when you ran out of money, you'd just go, 'Well, I can't do any more things now.'"

I think Louis CK said it best, "Everything is amazing and nobody's happy." ▶ this video Sorry but Social mobile local (or as people cooler than me are calling it, SoMoLo) is still pretty new. You're just going to have to "suffer" through a little more. I get the author's point that it seems like the same things are getting made and funded over and over. But with only about 1/2 the U.S. pop. owning smartphones, you can't blame people too much for trying to stake their claim. Anything more innovative might be too early anyways.

when I read this I instantaneously thought about this rant from Louis CK [Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy] ▶ this video Linux Mint and Windows 7 take 10 seconds to boot on my laptop with a SSD. That's amazing. Just a few months ago I would go make a sandwich while my PC would boot. If you have a problem with splash screens alt tab to the browser of your choice. If you think your PC boots to slow take out your smartphone and play with it. This is not to say developers should be wasteful with users time. Especially web developers know how import page speed is. But it's a complex program just give it a few SECONDS. Also one should mention Steam (the game distribution platform). If you are bored in between rounds you just bring up the steam panel and use the embedded browser to browse the web or chat with friends. But those at times minute long delays. Sure you could embed a email client in the OS the comes up long before the main GUI is loaded but you wont get to read much in 10 seconds.

The word you're looking for is not " stupid " but rather " spoiled ". People in first-world countries are spoiled to their bones. They take EVERYTHING for granted. Which is why they don't have the patience to read explanations why Wikipedia is down. They just want Wikipedia and they want it right now. This comedian, Luis CK captures it much better than I can: ▶ this video

It's awesome that cell phones work in the Bart tunnels at all Upvote this man (and give me some downvotes if it balances things out for you). Too few see the world this way. ▶ this video

I clicked Comments to say the exact same thing. They have access to thousands of films and whole seasons of TV shows and people are complaining because it's going to cost a little more. Unbelievable. ▶ this video