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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:29PM (#29362224)
It feels pretty disingenuous to write off all real world design as trivial or impossible to make an impression. For instance, aluminum cans are a great example of quality design

https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw

Re:Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:05PM (#26095431)
> nobody wants to set up shop there because it doesn't have the (fading, imo) cultural cachet that Austin has

.. and has a public ivy college, the Texas legislature, and decades of semiconductors in the area. There's still NIMBY & traffic in the city, but to sum Austin up as simply a cultural hub feels dishonest