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

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Post by jgwil2 » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:13 AM UTC

jimdavenport wrote: post #44

danieltillett wrote: post #25

Earlier 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…

This is a new and surprising take.

This incredibly stupid take is actually pretty common on HN whenever vegetarianism comes up. I don't know whether they're simply mocking the serious thought many people have put into the ethics of eating animals or what, but it's manifestly false and patently ridiculous to claim that eating plants kills more animals than eating animals.

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

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Post by rdlecler1 » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:14 AM UTC

Mycoworks: 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 I’ve ever had.

Disclosure: These companies are in our portfolio so obviously on our watch list.

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

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Post by tardismechanic » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:16 AM UTC

Materialize

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

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Post by ivalm » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:17 AM UTC

danieltillett wrote: post #25

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

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…

Cattle eat more plant calories than the resultant meat. All those plant calories include the “vegetarian suffering.” Purely grass fed meats with no farming will be too inefficient to provide meat to everyone.

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

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Post by yevpats » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:18 AM UTC

https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery

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

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Post by Fordec » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:20 AM UTC

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 st" moment I had lately was pack a starship with autonomous drones, combine it with the Adama Maneuver from Battlestar Galactica. If you can drop a squadron, anywhere in the world for X $M within 2 hours, why would the US military ever need super-carriers any more? Or Island carrier theory if you stretch out that logic. Which then why would the US need as close relationship regional allies to contain neighboring countries? How does that affect the US-Israeli relationship with the middle east? Or the US-British with Europe one? Or the US-Japanese one with China?

Pure fusion weapons. It's a true pandora's box for nuclear proliferation if nuclear weapons no longer need enrichment facilities.

Atom Interferometry. Potentially, GPS level location tracking without the satellite / radio component.

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

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Post by sigstoat » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:23 AM UTC

seveibar wrote: post #42

macrofab.com - full pcb etching and routing with component assembly for SMBs or hobbyists. Although this technology exists to an extent today, I think eventually "2 day delivery" of fully assembled customed circuits + the ability to instantly scale up will enable a lot of new hardware innovation.

having worked on a professional but very low volume product, ordering took about an afternoon. all the rest of it took months.

and there are already assembly companies in most major cities that will take your money and files and just make a thing happen. not clear how this is different enough to change anything.

getting it made just isn’t the hard part for anything interesting (and small).

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

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Post by Jamie9912 » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:24 AM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #10

Matrix. I also think we'll see much more fun ARM based SBC going forward. The raspberry pi 4 was already powerful enough to be useful & it's only going to get better.

I heard that Matrix have already made some design errors that significantly impacts its scalability

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

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Post by theptip » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:28 AM UTC

andreilys wrote: post #13

ghoomketu wrote: post #6

I really like roam research and its open source alternative obsidian for note taking and research. But I feel there is still something lacking and there is definitely scope for a lot of improvement to make these type of software more useful. Still love the direction in which this is headed and it feels more in-sync than keeping a folder full of text files.

What would you say is the advantage of roam research over the open source alternative of Obsidian?

I tried both and found the UI to be better in Roam. The WYSIWYG aspect of Roam is real nice, vs having unrendered markdown in one pane and the rendered version on the other side.

Also, the “daily notes” feature in Roam is really useful, it’s a small UI thing but it gives me a nudge to make a daily note when I do any thinking, rather than having to file it manually in Obsidian.

Obsidian has most of the core stuff that Roam does though.

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

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Post by wolco2 » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 6:31 AM UTC

saila wrote: post #38

danieltillett wrote: post #25

Earlier 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…

Massive amounts of grain are fed to livestock, and vast acreage is cleared for grazing livestock. If everyone went vegetarian, I'm fairly certain the amount of crops grown and land we use for agriculture would be significantly less. Turning grain into meat is highly inefficient.

Why does everyone have to become vegetarian?

When everyone stops eating meat and turns to "healthy" meals like corn based vegetarian burgers I think we are all worse off.

Variety, locally grown produce, locally raised animals is the best way to keep diversity and quality. The vegetarian food available now is good because it's not as mass produced.