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

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Post by Veen »

quiescant_dodo wrote: post #94
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

What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.

Vegans don't consume any animal products, whereas vegetarians typically eat no meat but may eat dairy.

Ethical vegetarians are vegetarians for primarily ethical reasons. For example, they may think meat-eating causes excessive suffering (I fall into this category). Most Western vegetarians are ethical vegetarians, but some people are vegetarian for medical or religious reasons.

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

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Post by Veen »

jamil7 wrote: post #100
quiescant_dodo wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.

People are vegan or vegetarian for various reasons, health, environmental or ethical. An ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian doesn't make much sense to me since the dairy industry is pretty cruel, egg production isn't great either.

I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because it sounds pompous, but it's basically what I am. My position is that raising and killing animals for meat is unjustifiable by any reasonable ethical or environmental standard. However, it is possible for dairy and egg production to be ethical, even though it often isn't in practice. So, I try to source eggs and milk from producers who minimize suffering. For example, I could get eggs from a local smallholding where I can see for myself that the chickens live fairly good lives.

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Post by steve_taylor »

The market for self diagnostic medical technology is going to boom at some point. It will be a long time before we have an AutoDoc, but until then, diagnostic equipment and diagnosis automation are something to keep an eye on and possibly invest in. Very few doctors will see it coming, because they don't want to believe that they can be partially automated.

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Post by bionhoward »

[Serverless] Graph databases

[Scripting Language] Infrastructure as code tools

Genetic Programming

Functional Programming

Neural Networks / Differentiable Programming

Cognitive Architecture

Reinforcement Learning

Causal Statistics

Array databases

Bitemporal data

PostgreSQL schema migration tools

Functional GraphQL directives

CRDT/ORDT frameworks

WASI/WASM as a replacement for Docker

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

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Post by dmje »

xupybd wrote: post #104
dmje wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Out of interest, which would you choose on balance in a scenario in which the lab meat tasted the same, cost the same and came with the same food safety aspects?

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Post by keymone »

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.…

I would contest every point.

Ethical: cruelty is bad, so responsible production of meat is preferred but there’s no reason why killing animal for food should be bad, such that same argument can’t be applied to veggie production.

Environmental: grass fed meat is very much preferred to monoculturing the crap out of our planet. Animas are part of life cycle of the environment.

Health: crappy grains have done way more health damage than crappy meats. Also focusing on meat exclusively, skipping organs is unhealthy. Saturated fats aren’t as bad as you’re told (only in combination with sugars). Red meat doesn’t cause cancer (smoked foods do). Lots of myths around nutrition.

Taste: highly subjective.

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

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Post by KozmoNau7 »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #96
alasdair_ wrote: post #12

I’m still bullish on AR once Apple launch Glass in early ‘22. Having a real-life videogame HUD with a blue marker showing my next destination sounds fantastic.

Hard to wrap my head around the idea that civilians run around with these on their heads recording everything in their path including others who haven't consented. I hope it stays an assistive niche technology for people with disabilities and gamers. People wearing this in a pub or on the streets hopefully continue to get ridiculed (e.g. they were called "glassholes" for good reason). When they say that if a person l…

I think AR won't break through in the mainstream until the devices are indistinguishable from regular glasses. Of course people will know that it exists, but it gets over the important hurdle of "looks different and weird"

Personally I'm not interested. I have no need to be connected all the time.

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

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Post by sofixa »

Cyclone_ wrote: post #27
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…

Haven't seen an update for the release of AoE 4, really hoping they release a demo soon. Been dying to get back to a high quality RTS. I thought the AoE 2 games took a little too long, so hoping these ones are shorter on average.

> Been dying to get back to a high quality RTS.

Check out Paradox Interactive's games, they have one for most interesting time periods and are pretty entertaining.

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

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Post by mooncakecat »

From a more corporate/sales perspective the Snacker looks promising. https://edensnacker.com

VR in a showcase and training environment has always been a giant pain with cables and straps and whatnot. This is solution tries to solve that and removes the middleman who often awkwardly has to put the straps over your head.

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

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Post by dmje »

eightails wrote: post #129
dmje wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

I agree with a lot of the points you made, though: > Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them. Ultimately every animal is going to die. If the moral hangup for you is the certainty of death, then wouldn't you consider any form of reproduction immoral? 'However good and rewarding their life may be, children are still going to d…

I think there's a reductionist angle to your point which just doesn't chime with me. It's a bit like people arguing for anti-natalism. It's interesting, but morally redundant, somehow?

The hangup for me isn't the certainty of death ("relax, you're going to die" is a credo I try hard to live by - even though I fail much of the time and worry about death as much as the next person...). It's just something about breeding a thing to kill it.

There is also something in there about the distance and hypocrisy of many meat eaters when it comes to facing up to what they are putting in their mouths. The thing you see at a supermarket is a million miles away from a hanging carcass; I know a whole bunch of people who don't even tell their young children that the thing they have on their plate is that thing walking around in the field over there - and that seems to me to also be quite disingenuous.

I'm failing to make a good point. But the broader thing for me is as I said - I'm genuinely not a rabid vegetarian (I used to get drunk at uni and sometimes end the night eating kebab along with everyone else...) - is that I'm interested in the combination of reasons which for me have built up into a fairly compelling case over the years. I should say as well - I actually do quite like the taste of meat even though it's been a long, long time - but I have no intention of going back, which is what interests me.

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