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

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itsoktocry wrote: post #147
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.…

> Health: again, see pretty much all the research ever. Eating a plant based diet is so much better for weight, health, BMI, etc etc etc It took me 5 minutes of Googling to find articles that refute this from all kinds of credible sources. Going vegetarian might be a step up from the average Americans diet, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any research that demonstrates plant-based diets are any better than…

I dunno what Google you're using but it took me half a minute to get to multiple sources suggesting vegetarians are on average healthier, have lower BMI, lower incidents of common cancers and more. Obviously balance probably trumps everything as it always does but there's imo fairly compelling evidence in the non meat direction, on average, for most people.

But once again may I stress that for me it's a whole range of factors that make this compelling, not just one.

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

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balfirevic wrote: post #158
progval wrote: post #120

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> https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. I find it funny that it's now considered a promising alternative approach; conceptually this is very similar to AJAX, which was the standard way to make pages dynamic ten years ago.

It's a standard way to make pages dynamic now. AJAX just means making http requests from javascript instead of reloading the full page.

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

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Post by jitl »

mercer wrote: post #143

Elixir's/Phoenix' LiveView (and clones/similar approaches). It's been discussed plenty on HN, so I don't think I need to elaborate too much. But I'll just say that as I'm using it in more and more new projects and adding it piecemeal to existing ones, I'm constantly amazed by how much complexity just disappears, and how pleasant it all is to work with. I do feel that it'll take another year or two for all of it to 'm…

React itself is now approaching the Live View server-rendering space: https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react...

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

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Post by progval »

balfirevic wrote: post #158
progval wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. I find it funny that it's now considered a promising alternative approach; conceptually this is very similar to AJAX, which was the standard way to make pages dynamic ten years ago.

It's a standard way to make pages dynamic now. AJAX just means making http requests from javascript instead of reloading the full page.

I meant using AJAX to transfer XML that gets inserted directly into the DOM. Of course that was never the only use of AJAX, but it used to be much more popular than it is now, and it's what Hotwire is trying to make popular again.

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

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Post by johnx123-up »

AppGyver looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.

FWIW, it looks similar to https://restya.com/core-jira-slack-alternative But, they promote it as Jira + Slack alternative (Disclosure: I'm on their private beta and for unknown reason they keep pushing their public release)

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Post by curiousDog »

pgt wrote: post #41

Differential Dataflow and McSherry’s commercial SQL Driver implementation at Materialize: - https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/ - https://materialize.com/

Could you expand and explain why you think so (I do understand it’s a novel idea).

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

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Post by rklaehn »

garmaine wrote: post #148
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…

> Pure fusion weapons. It's a true pandora's box for nuclear proliferation if nuclear weapons no longer need enrichment facilities. Is this actually a thing? My understanding is that the fusion stage of a nuclear weapon is purely to generate neutrons to trigger the 3rd, fission based stage. The destructive power of the bomb comes from the fission reactions.

An almost pure fusion bomb is technically possible and has been done multiple times. Usually it is not done for weapons designs since you got all those neutrons and can just double the yield by adding some 238U outer layer.

But e.g. the US Castle Bravo test or the soviet Tsar Bomba tests were almost pure fusion. For the Tsar Bomba they left out the 3rd fission stage. It was the cleanest bomb ever detonated in terms of radiation per yield.

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