Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by shaolinspirit » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

germinalphrase wrote: post #325

shaolinspirit wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is true that every asset will go to the moon, especially the stock market. I hope that the mainstream cultural perception of bitcoin and blockchain will change from being purely speculative and related to dark markets to actually being used with a good intent.

What good intent are you suggesting?

Technology is a tool, with a hammer you can smash people's heads or build houses. You never know what ideas can emerge, what creative energy can be formed in the context of blockchain. What comes to my mind is to find a more sustainable and ethical business model than advertisement.

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by enriquto » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

brobinson wrote: post #162

ssss11 wrote: post #111

1. Commercial real estate nose dives, karaoke bars expand exponentially in the free space 2. Vaccines take a long time to roll out (~3 yrs) so international travel enacts mandatory screening - meaning giving your swab samples to nation states just to enter the country.. like how the US takes your fingerprint - privacy erosion gets worse to the point of mass protests but won’t be fixed for decades 3. Routine dr appoin…

How about: Rust has its "left-pad" moment?

Rust is "left-pad" all the way down.

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by enriquto » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 2:53 PM UTC

Dirak wrote: post #196

* 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021 * 1 Bitcoin will cost over $100k on Dec 31, 2021 * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge * FB releases a thin virtual reality headset https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-... * Austin Tx or Seattle Wa succeeds Silicon Valley as the next major tech hub. San Francisco and its century old Victorians become…

LOL at the deliberate push for btc bullshit surrounded by common-sense and very popular points.

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by ellis0n » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

Dirak wrote: post #196

* 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021 * 1 Bitcoin will cost over $100k on Dec 31, 2021 * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge * FB releases a thin virtual reality headset https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-... * Austin Tx or Seattle Wa succeeds Silicon Valley as the next major tech hub. San Francisco and its century old Victorians become…

> * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge

Happy New Year 2021!

AnimationCPU is probably an alternative to Flash. Here is the project site https://animationcpu.com/ and Twitter with demos https://twitter.com/acpustudio

Join to TestFlight!

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by tathougies » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:05 PM UTC

The United States will enter a new foreign conflict with biden as president.

Edit: thanks for the downvoted guys... You're right, it'll likely be kamala as president by the time we're at war again

Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

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Post by tathougies » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:09 PM UTC

learnstats2 wrote: post #269

imposterr wrote: post #118

BABIES! So many COVID-induced lockdown babies! I've had so many people, many who were either done with having children, and those who weren't planning to for a while yet, announce their pregnancies. Wonder if there are any companies I can invest in to cash in on this?

This has been a theme since the start of the first lockdown, but surely humans in general would seek to avoid having babies during a pandemic?

Why would anyone do that?

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Post by ericb » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:09 PM UTC

type0 wrote: post #276

ericb wrote: post #6

By the end of the year, we'll have started a new roaring 20's. People are pent-up--eager to travel, excited to be with friends, vacation, go to bars, party, see movies. Pent-up demand will help kick-start the economy. Work from home is normalized. Commercial real estate prices will drop as companies pare-down their office space. Wework has better prospects than ever. Travel stocks and in person events go crazy. A ren…

You are probably overly optimistic about Rails, I wish it could be true.

Have you looked at https://hotwire.dev ?

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Post by frankenst1 » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #305

jacobedawson wrote: post #230

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I'm curious - why do you think that Bitcoin is "one of the worst ideas in modern history"? It's a very bold claim, I'd like to understand your reasoning.

I’m not OP, but I agree with OP. To me, BTC looks like an inefficient way to partially solve a problem that doesn’t exist — the problem of trust. It’s only a partial solution because it only deals with the money in a transaction and not the goods/services. In addition, it also exists purely by consensus and is therefore just as vulnerable to majority demands for inflation (the limit of 21 million is a choice, not a f…

You can't trust the government (or the central banks) to not dilute your savings by increasing the money supply - something they have already been doing in 2020 at an unprecedented rate which will continue in 2021.

While Bitcoin might not be the payment system some have been hoping for, it surely provides a hedge against the incoming increase in inflation rates which is why institutional investors are increasingly replacing cash reserves with bitcoin.

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jan 01, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

jayflux wrote: post #273

jacquesm wrote: post #244

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That's a neat alternative universe that you're in. COVID is a complete disaster in the UK (and in plenty of other places, but the clusterfuck in the UK is really quite something), besides that brexit could very well cause the UK to cease to exist or be diminished, you can expect a breakaway effort to start in Scotland just about today. Imagine the irony of the UK more or less trying to forbid the Scots from seceding…

I’m not saying the COVID situation went well by any stretch, but I haven’t spoken to anyone on the street who wants Boris out of office due to it. If a general election happened tomorrow I doubt he would have problems. It’s pretty clear most countries have struggled to handle it so that’s probably why Boris hasn’t had as much flack as expected. Like I said, it’s unlikely that would be the reason he resigns, if that w…

I don't think Scotland will 'ask for a referendum', if they won't get the permission they seek they will go the legal route:

https://www.dw.com/en/scotland-nicola-sturgeon-aims-for-2021...

Scotland will be disproportionally hurt by their lack of EU membership and voted strongly against leaving the EU.

As for people not wanting Johnson out of office due to COVID: we are in a similar situation here in NL, but at the end of the day results are what matter and Johnson has done the UK citizens absolutely no service with is performance so far. Maybe it will take some time before that sinks in and I don't have a shred of doubt that he will try to pin the blame on the EU for all of his own failures.