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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by dkdbejwi383 »

minot wrote: post #80
nefitty wrote: post #61

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Some people have a hard time engaging with ideas that might cast them in a negative, ethical light. I’ve had people abruptly stop me from explaining ethical vegetarianism, even though they initiated the conversation haha

On a side note, I never followed the project very closely but I was really hopeful for soylent. What happened? Is the technology just not there? Do we not know enough about human physiology? What is missing to take the soylent idea — which I understood as automate most (boring) meals — and make it a reality? I saw a quora answer which says we simply don’t know enough about the science behind food but to me it implies…

The soylent thing always struck me as a bizarre Silicon Valley fad with very limited appeal. I haven’t done a study but I would be very confident that most people simply enjoy eating food.

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oAlbe wrote: post #84
systemvoltage wrote: post #70

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I am opionated about this, I am sure people can share other perspectives. When you're operating a CNC machine, as an operator, do you need mess around with internal wiring, schematic, motor controllers? No. You just need a control panel, with DRO and a bunch of buttons, a joystick for manual override, e-stop and a keypad. You're not dealing with the exposed wiring and internals of the machine. Nor do you care (except…

Do you happen to have any resources for learning more about API design in the way you described it? I'm really interested to learn more. Your comment was very insightful. I used to think somewhat along those lines when it came to designing an API. My thought was that and endpoint was to represent an action the user could perform, and it was none of their business how that was implemented. But I've recently been enlis…

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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by nefitty »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #101
minot wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a side note, I never followed the project very closely but I was really hopeful for soylent. What happened? Is the technology just not there? Do we not know enough about human physiology? What is missing to take the soylent idea — which I understood as automate most (boring) meals — and make it a reality? I saw a quora answer which says we simply don’t know enough about the science behind food but to me it implies…

The soylent thing always struck me as a bizarre Silicon Valley fad with very limited appeal. I haven’t done a study but I would be very confident that most people simply enjoy eating food.

I’m actually in the middle of a bad GI flare-up, and soylent is a god send. I forget to eat, solid foods are hard to digest, I oversleep and miss meal times, etc. A bottled soylent helps me get back on track quickly.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by xupybd »

dmje wrote: post #95
jimdavenport wrote: post #4

As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

30 year pescetarian here. I mean, mainly vegetarian but some fish every so often. I gave up meat at 17 on the basis of no reason whatsoever, I was just a contrary teen who liked giving things up. Down the line a few years I find so many compelling reasons to not eat meat. Each individually may be argued out of the room but collectively it's pretty compelling. Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None.…

Hardcore fleshy here. I have no ethical concern in killing an animal for food. But if someone can lab grow meat that tastes like meat sign me up. My only concerns would be taste, cost and food safety.

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Post by xupybd »

danieltillett wrote: post #78
corobo wrote: post #40

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You're allowed to just say you like eating meat mate, haha

I certainly do like eating meat and I don’t think there is any ethical problem with eating meat. The problem with trying to use ethics to justify a position is there is little agreement on what is ethical or not.

Some people are not comfortable killing an animal to eat it. To them it's not an ethical choice. I have no problem killing an animal for food. I also have no problem with someone else finding it unethical.

Each person has their own beliefs that govern their ethics. As long as we all find a way to live peacefully together there is nothing wrong with that.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by petra »

mikewarot wrote: post #7

Technology - Multilevel Security, which if widely deployed would solve almost all pedestrian IT security issues There are systems that work on mainframes, but the only realistic (in my opinion) option coming down the pike for the rest of us is from http://genode.org

How is Genode better/easier for the common user than Qubes-Os ?

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by aabbcc1241 »

tomashertus wrote: post #21

https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. https://temporal.io/ - is the new kid on the block of state-dependent service-orchestrated application development platforms. https://workos.com/ - is building enterprise-readiness as a service, enabling new companies to start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. htt…

Similar to hotwire, LiveView is also "server-side-rendered reactive webapp", written in Elixir and Typescript

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by phreeza »

Fordec wrote: post #56

Terahertz technology. Has big potential in communications and sensing, particularly in the medical field. Starship, $50 per kg absolutely changes a lot of assumptions and has definite 2nd order effects around transport, satellite orchestration, communication monopolies, network latency. A big "holy s t" moment I had lately was pack a starship with autonomous drones, combine it with the Adama Maneuver from Battlestar…

I'm not sure the price point changes that much for the US military. The same tactic would have been achievable for a long time by strapping drones + heat shield to a bunch of ICBMs. It just doesn't give you a sustained presence in the target location. A carrier is more of a logistical presence, not just a bunch of planes with a single load of fuel and munitions.
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