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

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Post by erulabs »

vestrigi wrote: post #167
erulabs wrote: post #29

- Grime music. A UK hybrid of hip-hop and punk, with a focus on showing poverty as a cold reality rather than a hardened persona - removing the "gang" in favor of the "pang". Honesty and sadness in mainstream music is on its way back. - Self-hosting. A hugely growing movement to host server-side software yourself (on a cloud provider or at home). De-platforming is not possible unless ordinary citizens can host applic…

I think self-hosting should be even more "plug and play" to be appealing to more users. During the lockdown I was looking for simple board-like games that could be played over the internet. There were a few promising ones that were only playable on a single hosted domain that hat a capacity of 100 parties. I thought that it couldn't be too asking for the most basic cloud server hardware to serve this game for a few p…

> What we need is maybe an web-browser accessible hub where we can place or point to an app and quickly configure it to run on the server. SSH optional.

I love hearing this, because this is exactly what I'm building. Not quite there yet, but that's exactly the dream! We just posted a blog about setting up a home server and attaching it if you're interested https://kubesail.com/blog/microk8s-raspberry-pi/

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Post by mandelbrotwurst »

ta17711771 wrote: post #260
mftrhu wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People the drone might fall on.

And...the drone.

Are the drone's airbags deployed on impact like a car's? If that's the case, it's not protecting people it could hit because it's already hit them at that point.

Is the idea that it has some kind of collision detection system and deploys them in advance of the collision?

Edit: Did a quick search, I see now that one of the ideas is that it auto-deploys in case of malfunction that is likely to lead to a crash.

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Post by flatfilefan »

panarky wrote: post #74

Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…

A lady tells her friend:

- My son adopted Meditation

- Anything is better than just sitting around and doing nothing.

It’s a short joke, but a recurve one :-)

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Post by sershe »

panarky wrote: post #74

Doing nothing. We've been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment, to sacrifice sleep, to always be learning, building, networking, searching and improving. The covid19 lockdown is showing many people the benefits of disconnecting, de-scheduling, refusing or ignoring invitations, and being still with our thoughts for hours or days at a time, producing nothing of tangible economic va…

I have a end-of-fiscal-year crunch at my now WFH job and arranging outdoor activities is harder with all the restrictions, and finding partners is harder when I'm not doing them with my wife.

And, with not as many things to do and more uncertainty, I'm now much more connected (both as far as work goes as people want me to refer them or try to hire me under pretext of "how are you/your job doing in this crisis", and also reading news again which is stupid, watching TV which I normally never do, etc.).

I've never been more stressed out and connected!

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

ta17711771 wrote: post #257
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #130

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People think this is similar to the outsourcing trend of the past. No this is bigger than that. The big difference is that in the past there was a difference between outsourced vs working from the office employees. This time there will be no difference. All employees will be the same and employees will be employed based on merit to the company without any stigma. Also, it's going to be a long time before we go back t…

There will still continue to be large gaps in command of operating language, and baseline skills.

But that's part of my point, people will be hired based on their abilities and how much they contribute to the company now. That was not necessarily the case in the past. And the reality now is that there are parts in the US that have a low cost of living that are now open for people to work from.

I know that I would be willing to work from a low cost coast city if I only need to show up to my office 1 or 2 times a month. I'm even willing to get paid a bit less.

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Post by DeonPenny »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #180
redis_mlc wrote: post #152

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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 trav…

They don't say they hate Trump. Look at how Canada/Trudeau responded on "the situation in the US". Everyone is being diplomatic about it, while Trump is acting like a baby without candy. The "elites" have never received this much money because of tax benefits, it's nuts. While the entire country is divided. Euro is also not a scam, it's just young for the most ambitious project in the world spanning an entire contine…

I would argue America had far more to do with that especially as Europe was still picking up itself. It did a lot of the heavy lifting during the cold war, rebuilding germany and france. Then export culture and increase military spending to the point the USSR collapse because of unreast.

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Post by natmaka »

11235813213455 wrote: post #162

Minimalism, by opposition of capitalism, consumerism-driven economy. It has been said in other comments, things like lockdowns opened up people's mind. Living more simply, is not only beneficial to oneself, but also for environment, which in return also bring benefits to us We should rethink various jobs and activities, in the angle of "usefulness" or "toxicity". Consider advertisement, entertainment, luxury, tourism…

Those problems are a function of "size" (and "density") of the human group, and also of its degree of technocracy and centralization.

Leopold Kohr and Jacques Ellul pointed it out.

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Post by nine_zeros »

throwaway743 wrote: post #248
nine_zeros wrote: post #233

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Can you summarize what the real advantage of digital currencies are? What does it enable that the current system doesn't?

Advantage for governments is more control. For citizens, not much. Should the virus be around during this push, it'll be promoted as a "safer alternative" to physical cash.

How is there more control for government? Just that it cannot be printed into currency?

Because even now, most wealth is in banks and government can freeze them when they want to.

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Post by Can_Not »

chrisrickard wrote: post #4

Serverside Rendering * https://laravel-livewire.com * https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view * https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor edit: added blazor

This isn't a JS framework, or even a framework, but I'm really liking crystal's type safety applied to .ecr simple html template files.

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Post by 0_gravitas »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #183

The discovery and research of CRISPR makes in vivo genetic modification possible and safe, is going to absolutely revolutionize humanity. Imagine a world completely devoid of genetic diseases or with treatment for those diseases. Imagine a reduction in occurrence of over 50% of cancers. Imagine being able to change fundamental aspects of yourself. Imagine a grad student learning tools that can be used to recreate sma…

I have a collection of medical complications which are a result of genetic traits I've inherited, and I have lived the first 20 or so years of my life in varying degrees of constant pain. It frustrates me greatly when people immediately assign genetic engineering a negative title "b-b-because the Nazis and GATTACA", and this shortsightedness flippantly ignores the true consequences of inaction.

There are others like me, and of course a great deal more who have it far far worse, and I firmly believe that I should have never been allowed to happen. A part of me resents my mother and father for deciding to have another child after they knew that something like me was possible: my younger brother has a similar set of medical conditions.

I so desperately wish to see corrective genetic engineering become commonplace, and it is one of the few things which provides a faint hope for the future to me these days.

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