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* 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
by Dirak 6y ago
* 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-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality/ 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 the Detroit of the tech world
* Section 230 doesn't get repealed
* WFH and quarantine continues until the summer
* A React competitor that compiles to WASM with promises of perf and space gains will emerge
* A Reddit competitor emerges and wins majority marketshare
* 2021 will be the year of punk and rock n' roll
- egfx 6y ago* An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge It’s already here https://gif.com.ai https://gif.com.ai
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- odiroot 6y ago> * 2021 will be the year of punk and rock n' roll Count me in! That would definitely make this year happy for me.
- _trampeltier 6y agoCount me in too!
- Zedronar 6y agoAnd me!
- austinjp 6y ago> React competitor that compiles to WASM Those who are better informed than me, who are the main movers here?
- sudhirj 6y agoFlutter, probably, with the added benefit of the same code base (including UI) working on iOS and Android.
- fendy3002 6y ago> * A React competitor that compiles to WASM with promises of perf and space gains will emerge Or from react itself that compiles into WASM, similar with react native.
- jayflux 6y ago> A React competitor that compiles to WASM with promises of perf and space gains will emerge Yew look like they’re trying to be that alternative. https://github.com/yewstack/yew https://github.com/yewstack/yew
- dartharva 6y ago>A Reddit competitor emerges and wins majority marketshare So many have tried and failed already. I would really wish that to happen though.
- gautamcgoel 6y agoWhat's wrong with Reddit?
- guidoism 6y agoI think Nazis and the Alt Right don’t like it in the same way they don’t like Twitter.
- CGZp9X9k 6y agoWent from being a niche community based platform to an astroturfing and advertising platform disguised as a content aggregator.
- yulaow 6y agoMostly the way in which moderation (doesn't) work giving birth of just toxic microcommunities
- llampx 6y agoGo to www.reddit.com/r/all and sort by new. It's all trash. And porn.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoI mean, new was always trash, and porn has been on Reddit since practically it’s inception, but the content (that makes it out of new) and discussion quality has unequivocally declined significantly.
- wsc981 6y agoI don't like the way the site is trying to force you to use the mobile app.
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- stewbrew 6y agoVR headset: how would this be different from what vuzix offers today?
- fingerlocks 6y ago* FB releases a thin virtual reality headset Currently being tested in Seattle! Had a conversation tonight about it. I hear there’s a ray-ban branding partnership. And the product is supposed to be way less creepy than google glass, but similar. Can’t recall if this was spoken to me in confidence. Alcohol. Happy New Years!
- corobo 6y agoI'd be impressed with anything coming from Facebook being less creepy than Google, as low of a bar as that is
- RealityVoid 6y agoI saw the presentation from the oculus reveal. If anything, it's way more creepy than google glass.
- deadcoder0904 6y ago> * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge It's happening https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/
- codetrotter 6y agoRuffle is a Flash Player emulator, not an animation tool for creating animations.
- pan69 6y agoMore something like this I guess: https://www.wickeditor.com https://www.wickeditor.com
- akritrime 6y ago> * 1 Bitcoin will cost over $100k on Dec 31, 2021 Glad to see we are learning from the mistakes of John McAfee
- codehalo 6y agoLearning from the mistakes of Hacker News would be better.
- akritrime 6y agoWhich year's?
- FridgeSeal 6y ago$Current_Year
- jasode 6y ago>Austin Tx or Seattle Wa succeeds Silicon Valley as the next major tech hub. San Francisco and its century old Victorians become the Detroit of the tech world Over the long term (more like decades), a prediction like yours might eventually take place but it's not going to happen in the next 365 days. Yes, old Venice eventually lost its 13th century financial supremacy to New York and London, and New York City lost its film industry to Hollywood California. Therefore, Silicon Valley's dominance won't last forever but they'll still be the #1 tech hub in December 31 2021.
- enriquto 6y agoLOL at the deliberate push for btc bullshit surrounded by common-sense and very popular points.
- ellis0n 6y ago> * 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/ https://animationcpu.com/ and Twitter with demos https://twitter.com/acpustudio https://twitter.com/acpustudio Join to TestFlight!
- tbodt 6y agoThere's also Adobe Animate, which is a rebranding of Flash that can output HTML/JS
- jhayward 6y ago> 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021 I don't see why the Treasury and Mint would start making more paper money and coins. It really bugs me when people incorrectly talk about the money supply as 'currency'. Currency is printed by the US Mint/Treasury. Money appears out of thin air when banks make loans.
- morpheos137 6y agoI am struck by how unrealistic many of these predictions are. My personal take, response. * Accelerating inflation perhaps leading high single digits low double digits in the next several years. * Stocks continue to rise as a function of inflation. * Unemployment measured by workforce participation rate stays high or increases. * Full self drivering cars are no closer. * 50% chance of Bitcoin crash like in 2018, 50% chance of further price appreciation but I think $100,000 is absurd for a commodity that has close to zero intrinsic value... * Major urban areas see falling rents as WFH continues. * Silicon Valley loses some of its prominence as a function of WFH but I doubt a wholesale shift could happen in a year. * 50 % chance of major social unrest in the USA as Trump diehards refuse to accept Biden. * Tech advertising bubble begins to collapse. Tech bubble begins to collapse by year end. AI, self-driving vehicles discredited. * Amazon reduces its own shipping service as a money loser increases use of UPS and USPS. * Subscription web services (rather than ad funded) services begin to emerge. * Reddit continues to decline in quality but no clear alternative emerges. * Open source, distributed alternative to Facebook emerges, or linked-in subscription based competition. * 25% chance major world leader dies * 25% - 33% chance of major armed conflict, especially involving China. * 20% chance of well attested "alien" contact. * 20% chance of second novel pandemic in addition to Covid-19 * 20% chance of extra solar "asteroid" like Oumuamua * >50% chance of Middle East Peace agreement between Arabs and Israel * Large chance of abnormal oil price volatility. * Brexit results in deep recession in UK, Boris Johnson is out.
- jerrymiller 6y ago> 50% chance of Bitcoin crash like in 2018, 50% chance of further price appreciation but I think $100,000 is absurd for a commodity that has close to zero intrinsic value "$100 is absurd for a commodity that has close to zero intrinsic value" "$1,000 is absurd..." "$10,000 is absurd..." At this point, the burden of proof is on sceptics to show why a commodity with zero "intrinsic" value trends upward despite those sceptics' predictions during the last ~10 years.