Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
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#212I’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.
Once Facebook and Google get their hooks in it'll be real life but "augmented" with ads and DRM.
You mean cost-reduced/subsidized :)
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#213AppGyver 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)
It's funny seeing AppGyver as the thing to watch when I was using their stuff in 2013. I guess it's probably progressed though.
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#214https://puri.sm https://pine64.org https://inkplate.io/ https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.proxmox.com/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://pop.system76.com/
Proxmox has been around for decades, they are not exactly a new player.
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#215Mycoworks: which makes leather from mycelium. Will see products 2021. Brightseed: uncovering the medicine that’s in our food. Uses AI to identify bioactive molecules found in common food crops that can regulate genetics associated with health. Imagine safe drugs that only take 24 months to get to market. Atomo Coffee: Makes molecular without the coffee bean; made from sustainable agriculture side streams. Best coffee…
It took some time to figure out what Atomo was offering based on an unclear landing page. Alt-coffee is an important category and worth the investment.
Did you click on the "To the Lab" link? I think that it would be a more informative homepage.
But to explain the product, the current homepage just needs to add "Plant-based" before "Coffee without beans? It's molecular!" above the "To the Lab" link. Otherwise you might wonder what "Coffee without beans" must be made of.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because
I wouldn't call myself an "pesca-pescatarian" but it sure sounds fun.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Grass fed cattle and sheep have a pretty good life. What you are arguing against is intensive feedlots.
There's a third aspect to that. Or maybe it's another ecology problem. While I don't have the numbers, I strongly suspect there's not enough grass to feed all the humans the amount of meat they would like to eat right now. At least based on observing the prices of intensive vs grass fed, or watching the numbers for intensive production alone. So if we want grass fed as the new normal, we're either going to have to in…
Yes this is true - there is not enough grasslands to feed the current demand for meat - actually there is not enough feedlots to feed the demand for meat on a global scale. Many poor people around the world would eat more meat if it was cheaper.
The solutions to let the market solve the problem - if there was only grass fed meat available the cost would be very high and meat would become a luxury again.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am an ethical meat eater. I would rather eat grass fed beef and lamb than see the additional suffering of hundreds/thousands of rodents (let alone the tens of millions of insects) that me adopting a vegetarian diet would induce. Being poisoned or shredded in a harvester is not a cruelty-free way to die. On a more philosophical note, I think it is better to have lived and died than to not have ever existed. Given ve…
> On a more philosophical note, I think it is better to have lived and died than to not have ever existed. Would that not lead to a desire to create as many "lives" as possible? I don't think I've met many people optimising for that, although I won't rule it out.
I would not be surprised if there was some religion out there that espoused such a doctrine, likely one that believed in reincarnation.
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#219As 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 think this is a very privileged view.
Most of the world does not have the culture of offering vegetarian/vegan meals. And if they did, living that lifestyle can be prohibitively expensive.
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#220Materialize [1]. I am a big fan of Frank McSherry’s work on Naiad, timely and differential data flow. [1] https://materialize.com/
Do you mind sharing details how do you use materialize especially if you already have Spark/Flink and Hive warehouse setup?