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Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

Robinhood. r/wallstreetbets and other mainstream amateur investors investing or betting on crazy risky assets from crypto to options.

Indie hackers - the last 5 or so years is the first time I’ve seen a lot of info laid out for this group to thrive. The traditional business and startup advice doesn’t apply directly. Expect to see a lot more people doing this as they get dissatisfied from work or just need a bit of extra income.

Netflix and other networks raising awareness of social issues and kind of being in charge of what social issues get to be covered and what don’t. Related is education from Netflix instead of other sources.

Online universities becoming the de facto way to get a degree and people opting for those kind of degrees to cut costs and get a job. So study CS or Stats rather than Chemistry (which requires a lab). Non remote degrees seen as an upper middle class luxury and will get more expensive.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by redis_mlc »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #85
DeonPenny wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That pretty much going the opposite. The Euro is in real trouble, the pound can't because the UK economy is too small, and no one trust china with any power.

Why would the euro be in real trouble. The only thing I see is Hungary and interference of China, but those things will usually resolve themselves. Nobody trusts China = I agree. I don't think anyone considers even the pound. But, Trump made sure that a lot of people are starting to back away from the US. So I can't agree with the "going the opposite part". If Trump would see another term i foresee huge troubles ahea…

Everything you wrote is the opposite of true.

The Euro is a scam, with most EU members "sick men" and Germany unwilling to foot their national pensions and welfare schemes.

Allies say they hate Trump publicly, until they need a superpower to intervene, then they all call him Daddy.

US citizens love Trump ... just not the coastal elites and wannabe elites.

Who was the only leader with the common sense to halt air travel from China during a pandemic? While everybody else was virtue signalling, Trump made a command decision that is obviously correct to all in hindsight. The only man on earth the CCP fears is Trump. What does that tell you?

The following link variously calls Italy, Greece, Turkey, France and Portugal "sick men" Not a lot of countries left, is there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by truckerbill »

jodrellblank wrote: post #143
sunstone wrote: post #92

Electric bicycles (and other light electrics) are going to remake the world's cities in the next 30 years. The signs are already in place. The biggest transformational factor is the lack of exhaust allowing a lot of personal transport to be moved indoors.

Why is that useful? Who is clamouring to rebuild all the existing roads - which bikes already work on? Who is hoping to ride miles and miles in underground tunnels and pay to build them? Underground tunnels for fast no-traffic movement of people already exist as subways, and move orders of magnitude more people, many times faster.

As always the answer is some synthesis of the many viewpoints.

Above-ground routes are much easier (thus cheaper) to adapt and change. Connecting outer-suburbs to an existing underground network is extremely difficult, it takes decades. It's hard to increase the capacity of existing networks. Not to say they aren't useful, but increasing capacity with above-ground cycle networks is much easier.

Encouraging people to cycle for shorter journeys further frees up capacity for longer trips where trains make more sense.

Roads as they are currently massively favour cars, to an unacceptable degree. I would cycle where I am if it didn't substantially increase my risk of death.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by scrollaway »

OJFord wrote: post #87
srle wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it was an absolute fucking nightmare to maintain and work on. You either never did serious front end dev at the time or you just have an extreme case of rose tinted glasses.

Compared to now?! Or you mean it was already terrible by then, bring back HTML, CSS, and Flash?

I agree with GP, that stack described above was a fucking nightmare.

Typescript and react are a joy to work with. I miss them every day I do only python, which has been my bread and butter for 16 years.

The framework landscape for SSR is not as good but it's getting there definitely. Nextjs is promising nowadays.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by truckerbill »

noxer wrote: post #129
SeriousM wrote: post #124

Vegan food. It needs much less resources and yes, you can get everything a human being needs from it.

Veganism is an utopia. If the whole humanity would go vegan we would die out. Also your body can not produce vitamin B12 and no plants can produce it either so the "you can get everything" part is factually wrong.

Why would we die out? I've not seen a convincing arguement about the arable land thing once you factor in the freed up capacity we use to feed animals. B12 supplements are cultured from bacteria. "Getting everything" from plants is no more difficult than culturing cows etc on a huge scale as we do now. It's just different to what people are used to.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by wreath »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #151

Robinhood. r/wallstreetbets and other mainstream amateur investors investing or betting on crazy risky assets from crypto to options. Indie hackers - the last 5 or so years is the first time I’ve seen a lot of info laid out for this group to thrive. The traditional business and startup advice doesn’t apply directly. Expect to see a lot more people doing this as they get dissatisfied from work or just need a bit of ex…

> Netflix and other networks raising awareness of social issues and kind of being in charge of what social issues get to be covered and what don’t. Related is education from Netflix instead of other sources.

I started noticing this recently where even in Netflix shows (not documentaries) there are subtle messages. Honestly, I find it annoying because I'm there to decompress for an hour or so and not have these issues following me in one of the means of entertainments (i have enough of it at work and online already).

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by Qub3d »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #151

Robinhood. r/wallstreetbets and other mainstream amateur investors investing or betting on crazy risky assets from crypto to options. Indie hackers - the last 5 or so years is the first time I’ve seen a lot of info laid out for this group to thrive. The traditional business and startup advice doesn’t apply directly. Expect to see a lot more people doing this as they get dissatisfied from work or just need a bit of ex…

I'd be wary of Robinhood. Not only has its primary attractor (zero-fee trading) been replicated by all the big brokerages, it has also shown itself time and again to be really fast and loose in areas of finance that both hurt people and attract strong government oversight:

  * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246
  * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699995
Between stepping on toes and having the market for investors eaten away by bigger players, I would guess at either a slow decline or an acquisition is in RH's future.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by mftrhu »

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #137
jlbnjmn wrote: post #59

UAVs are a trend that I believe will be far bigger than most people are expecting. Autonomous cars are a difficult problem, autonomous drones are much simpler. Package delivery, food delivery, air taxis, and a lot of previously cost prohibitive applications as well. The cost and complexity of a drone is low, and an airbag should mitigate much of the risk.

What/who does an airbag in a drone protect?

People the drone might fall on.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by ptcampbell »

cercatrova wrote: post #117
freehunter wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason it didn’t last is because of blog-driven development. How does Udemy make money if everyone is using Rails with CoffeeScript and JQuery? How does Medium drive new articles and new authors? They can’t. So new authors have to drive new trends, which their audience grabs onto and forces into the mainstream. Recently I had a discussion on here about React vs PHP. The conclusion seemed to be that PHP died for n…

Do you really believe there's some conspiracy between Udemy, Medium and the like to drive JS development such that they could get more engagement? It seems that's a reversal of cause and effect, people like to make new stuff which Udemy and Medium were then able to capitalize on, nothing more.

I believe the author is theorising a phenomenon not a conspiracy.

Re: Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?

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Post by collyw »

zamalek wrote: post #50
slfnflctd wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand there's a replication crisis in many fields, and people need to be taught not to blindly trust any old graph that's shoved at them... but when it comes to pursuit of better understanding about these issues and others, what else is there that we can all agree upon besides science and evidence-based reasoning? Yeah, most of us could probably stand to be more empathetic, but part of how we know this is beca…

I think the parent is pointing out the trend, as a worrying trend. Trust in science is definitely getting worse, primarily because the truth is becoming more and more inconvenient.

The condradictions shown between coronavirus lockdown and BLM protests will have made this far worse.
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