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Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by tarte-au-poire »

iostream25 wrote: post #815
kulikalov wrote: post #786

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think about food replacements like US Soylent or EU JimmyJoy? It looks to me like a big deal, but I don’t see much enthusiasm from other people and these products have been around for a while.

It would seem that animals evolved to eat plants and other animals are probably not going to switch to dead packaged food from a singular company en-masse. There are also cultural factors. Meals are one of the few social excuses for hanging out and wasting work time together.

Exactly. Being from a place where food is important: they are already starting to go back to the country side. Your regular accountant / dev / office employee is proud to grown eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, milk for fun.

Some culture care way more about food than the US can imagine.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by esel2k »

kulikalov wrote: post #786
esel2k wrote: post #779

Agricultural revolution. I believe things like food, health and safety will become things not taken for granted anymore. Prices of all of these things will go up and take a major part of the household budgets. I believe one of the first is food, as every nation (rich or poor or sick) will need it and changes in climatic conditions have an impact already today. Next is health industry than defense (this one is scary)…

What do you think about food replacements like US Soylent or EU JimmyJoy? It looks to me like a big deal, but I don’t see much enthusiasm from other people and these products have been around for a while.

I personally did not look at them but also think it is a minority that will switch: first the price and I second I am not sure if labgrown is that appealing to most people.

Agriculture revolution doesn’t only mean labgrown stuff. Crop rotations, resistant plants, derisking a good harvest etcetc. And the approaches are endless: Predictions, tools, robots, satellite imagery etcetc.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by kulikalov »

iostream25 wrote: post #815
kulikalov wrote: post #786

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you think about food replacements like US Soylent or EU JimmyJoy? It looks to me like a big deal, but I don’t see much enthusiasm from other people and these products have been around for a while.

It would seem that animals evolved to eat plants and other animals are probably not going to switch to dead packaged food from a singular company en-masse. There are also cultural factors. Meals are one of the few social excuses for hanging out and wasting work time together.

Agree with the cultural value of dinners. I do that too, just eating the dead packaged food 2 out of 3 meals. I don’t need to go grocery shopping every day, don’t need to count nutrients and so on.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by ianai »

april_22 wrote: post #809
VogonPoetry wrote: post #781

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Half width vehicles ignores the following issues. - Busses. How do you make them half width? (or perhaps, uncharitably, do you think public transportation is worthless?). If busses stay the same width how do you write the driving regulations for mixed width vehicles and retrain the driving public so that fatalities do not skyrocket. - Bulk delivery vehicles. Same as above. - Half width means less vehicle stability at…

very unsure if half width vehicles will become a thing, but what's for sure is that micromobility will expand. We will see more electric scooters, ebikes etc. They solve so many traffic and environmental problems in cities.

I wish there was something to make smaller vehicles more palatable. Where I live everyone drives huge vehicles. They need the AWD or 4wd for traction in the winter. They probably don’t need to be F150 size and above for that though. I’m thinking like a weight/size tax on registration.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by xk3 »

kbowerman wrote: post #788
esel2k wrote: post #779

Agricultural revolution. I believe things like food, health and safety will become things not taken for granted anymore. Prices of all of these things will go up and take a major part of the household budgets. I believe one of the first is food, as every nation (rich or poor or sick) will need it and changes in climatic conditions have an impact already today. Next is health industry than defense (this one is scary)…

You are right on point. Water as well as food of course. Growing our own food, collecting rainwater and choosing a healthier lifestyle is what we can do for ourselves.

rainwater is dirty, even in unpolluted areas https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by hoseja »

mslupski1 wrote: post #789
DennisP wrote: post #541

Possibly nuclear fusion. Everybody's still conditioned to respond with the "30 years away" meme, but it's getting serious venture funding because all sorts of enabling technologies have made it a lot more feasible. Well-funded net power attempts in the next several years: Zap Energy in 2023, Helion in 2024, CFS in 2025, General Fusion in 2026. Previous net power attempts: zero, unless you credit NIF which ignores all…

John Carmack mentioned that he's shocked by how little interest Big Capital has in nuclear fission (he's more into fission that fusion). He talks a lot about it in a recent Lex Fridman podcast, a good listen if you're into this. It's weird that this isn't the main focus of the whole energy industry.

Presumably a lot of scary men who glow in the dark start to really care about your free time and personal connections when you do things with nuclear power.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by hoseja »

euroderf wrote: post #744
keenboy wrote: post #123

Can I say what I hope/wish were on the horizon? 1. Approval voting becoming widely adopted. This would go a long way toward mitigating the hyper polarization in politics in America (and likely elsewhere as well). Electing politicians with broader approval means legislation would likely move more quickly. 2. Moving to a Land Value Tax system in America. This would organically help us transition to a culture that build…

In practice, first-past-the-post voting is dysfunctional bordering on evil, especially when combined with gerrymandering wherein politicians select their voters rather than vice-versa. The entire result set of this mess - two parties and their primaries - is deeply screwed up. The practical challenge (imo) is to explain alternatives concisely to voters who might want to modify how their voting system works. But there…

This also hinges on the ability to predict voting patterns based on residence, which is quite the insanity.
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