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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

by ericb 6y ago

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 renaissance for Ruby on Rails. Old fashioned SPA's are overbought/oversold, the pendulum will swing to the middle for many use-cases. New security practices are developed, deployed, and become commonplace in the enterprise. I'd invest in this area if I had a way. Maybe honeypots, tripwires, or something new. Whatever can be sold as an antidote to the SolarWinds debacle, irony of security products as a vector aside. Deepfakes start to surface in the public consciousness in a way they haven't so far. None of this is good. Looking under Trump's rug gets ugly--Democrats are faced with seeming to "hunt" a political opponent, or letting some really bad stuff go.

amw-zero 6y ago
The thought that WeWork will ever recover is comical. I’d be surprised if they are alive by summer.
- ericb 6y ago
  Let me clarify that a bit--their concept has better real business prospects than ever. I'm not commenting on their ability to match their over-promises, their leadership, capital structure, or their misalignment to their valuation. I suppose their ability to stay alive is apart of their prospects, though.
  - amw-zero 6y ago
    Yea, I agree with the appeal of co-working spaces in general, and do expect them to see an uptick. However, WeWork's model is simply atrocious from a business standpoint. They assume all of the risk and liability by being the leasee in most cases.
systemvoltage 6y ago
> Deepfakes start to surface in the public consciousness in a way they haven't so far. None of this is good. The scary Deepfakes will be the ones that are 90% benevolent with 10% subtle naughty bits. They'll go undetected by the press. Imagine spreading anti-CCP propaganda in China but not in obvious ways that it can go under the radar of CCP censorship. Complete disarray.
type0 6y ago
You are probably overly optimistic about Rails, I wish it could be true.
- ericb 6y ago
  Have you looked at https://hotwire.dev https://hotwire.dev ?

by ericb 6y ago

amw-zero 6y ago

The thought that WeWork will ever recover is comical. I’d be surprised if they are alive by summer.

ericb 6y ago
Let me clarify that a bit--their concept has better real business prospects than ever. I'm not commenting on their ability to match their over-promises, their leadership, capital structure, or their misalignment to their valuation. I suppose their ability to stay alive is apart of their prospects, though.
- amw-zero 6y ago
  Yea, I agree with the appeal of co-working spaces in general, and do expect them to see an uptick. However, WeWork's model is simply atrocious from a business standpoint. They assume all of the risk and liability by being the leasee in most cases.

systemvoltage 6y ago

> Deepfakes start to surface in the public consciousness in a way they haven't so far. None of this is good. The scary Deepfakes will be the ones that are 90% benevolent with 10% subtle naughty bits. They'll go undetected by the press. Imagine spreading anti-CCP propaganda in China but not in obvious ways that it can go under the radar of CCP censorship. Complete disarray.

type0 6y ago

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

ericb 6y ago
Have you looked at https://hotwire.dev https://hotwire.dev ?