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Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by dsr_ »

admyral wrote: post #102
dsr_ wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outrageous fees: are you sure we're talking about BitCoin, here? Financial services M-F 9-5: while you generally need to go into a bank to set up an account, that's not always the case. Afterwards, most banking can be via direct deposit, mobile cameras for check deposits, ATMs, and web services. People who don't have access to banks -- Kenya appears to have solved this without blockchains. "Millenials largely prefer…

I'd personally much rather pay higher fees when there is a high network volume than constantly paying fees for the privilege of using an ATM, or servicing my online account, or processing a wire transfer, or reissuing me a debit card or checkbook, etc. For merchants, fees are outrageous indefinitely. Here are a few recent articles on millenial interest in crypto [1] [2]. [1] https://www.finder.com/why-people-arent-bu…

Your personal preferences don't enter into it. The fact of the matter is that bitcoin transaction fees will always be high.

The first of your references is from a cryptocoin hype site, and the second one says that "12%" of millenials would put a substantial amount of a windfall into crypto, which strikes me as not being "largely prefer".

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by TACIXAT »

JackFr wrote: post #46
TACIXAT wrote: post #28

3d printed houses and vertical farms. If these technologies get cheap enough, they will cover two of people's basic needs.

Why would a 3d printed house be superior to factory constructed modular housing?

I would prefer a beautiful robot built brick house over modular housing, but I do not know a ton about pre-built houses.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by fspear »

icebraining wrote: post #57
logicallee wrote: post #20

Note: Below are just my opinions. I don't think downvoting is justified. I'm completely right and downvoters are wrong, but anyway this thread asks for what we think. ---------- My opinion: (100.000000% guaranteed to be right in this case.) It's obvious that general artificial intelligence will be a reality and surpass human cognition in every way, because our brains are a couple of pounds of meat running on less tha…

You're missing another alternative: what if AI is totally possible, but our sacks of meat in skulls are not able to achieve it? I don't have to disbelieve the possibility of the existence of humans to doubt that flies could create a human.

>what if AI is totally possible, but our sacks of meat in skulls are not able to achieve it?

Won't be a problem if we use CRISPR to make ourselves smarter first!

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by candiodari »

croon wrote: post #99
candiodari wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think wolframalpha is already pretty close to that. And, I must say, a lot more trustworthy than even stackexchange. I mean, if it gives an answer, you can generally trust it to simply be true. And it never shows ads.

wolframalpha is really great for a good set of questions, but it's not the AI being envisioned.

That's true, it's a 1960's style AI (an "expert system"). It's rule-based and, frankly, really, really good.

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

sunstone wrote: post #112

Elon Musk's space based Internet service is near the top of my list. 1gps from my sailboat in the middle of the Pacific while we collectively thumb our nose at the crappy ISP's we have now.

Will that be bi-directional? I always thought satellite internet was only one way, then you had to use a phone or dsl for the uplink.. Does musk's system change that?

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by sunstone »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #116
sunstone wrote: post #112

Elon Musk's space based Internet service is near the top of my list. 1gps from my sailboat in the middle of the Pacific while we collectively thumb our nose at the crappy ISP's we have now.

Will that be bi-directional? I always thought satellite internet was only one way, then you had to use a phone or dsl for the uplink.. Does musk's system change that?

Yes it does. Here's a pretty in depth analysis of it. (Take the hyperbole with a pinch of salt but the tech is correct.)

https://www.cringely.com/2018/04/06/the-space-race-is-over-a...

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by AquiGorka »

fnord123 wrote: post #43
greatestdana wrote: post #32

Augmented reality. I really think it'll change how we spend our time throughout the day (perhaps for the worse). I think the change will be similar in magnitude to the invention of the internet.

It sounds cool... but I can't help but assume it will turn into a shit show like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

It does look like a "shit show" but with the proper (a lot) adjustments it can have its upsides

Re: Ask HN: What up and coming technology has you most excited?

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Post by cimmanom »

sanxiyn wrote: post #25
WhompingWindows wrote: post #8

CRISPR-CAS9 for genome editing. Briefly, it allows us to identify particular bits of DNA and modify one or more bases. It's a very new biotechnology (research essentially began within the last 10 years) which applies to essentially all species we've tested it on. It is cheap and so easy to perform that I could probably teach 99% of HN to do it in a week's training or less. It's still not as accurate as we need it to…

> Do we allow a bunch of 6'5" mega-geniuses with blonde hair, blue eyes, and all the right genotypes to take over society? We will. Quoting from https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/typos/ "What would a spelling-checked person, one with no genetic typos, be like? Since no such person has ever existed, we have to speculate. I figure that kind of guy would win the decathlon, steal your shirt and your girl -- and y…

That's falling pretty strongly on the nature side of the nature vs nurture debate.

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Post by k__ »

ropeadopepope wrote: post #74
k__ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they will continue to pump PC tech into mobile devices until both converge, still a few years to go for this.

The reason PC and Mobile hasn't converged is because of the lack of good inputs that aren't mouse and keyboard. As long as there's no good way to input text on mobile, there will never be a convergence of those two verticals.

I already know many people who simply plug a mouse/keyboard combo on their mobile device via USB/BT and it works like a charm.
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