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Paul Graham talks about people who "live in the future" -- in a specific area of their lives, they see clearly that some change is coming long before everyone e

Paul Graham talks about people who "live in the future" -- in a specific area of their lives, they see clearly that some change is coming long before everyone else catches on. It seems the trend towards legalization of marijuana is one such area -- it probably is one of the next gold rushes. (In my opinion, 2 other such areas are virtual reality and the Rust programming language).

pyre 13y ago
How does the Rust programming language translate into a 'gold rush?'
- deleted 13y ago
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- sedev 13y ago
  It seems that they're saying that marijuana legalization is like a gold rush, not that Rust is --- i.e. marijuana legalization, Rust, and VR, are all manifestations of Living In The Future, and additionally, marijuana legalization is a gold-rush situation.
soup10 13y ago
Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing economics. I guess they are making lots of money already and fear consolidation and industrial grow ops will change the business and hurt their margins. VR has a long way to go imo. Having used the first gen occulus, though interesting, it feels gimmicky and very much reminds me of 3D glasses(in terms of hype vs how cool the tech is in practice). Few people will willingly strap a vision obscuring black box to their face for more than a few minutes at a time to try it out. Probably worse than that, even if it was fun to play games with, it probably wouldn't catch on mainstream for a long time because the dork factor is incredibly high. It's like google glass on steroids. Rust is not that different from existing languages. I appear to be disagreeable today, apologies.
- nawitus 13y ago
  >Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing economics. I guess they are making lots of money already and fear consolidation and industrial grow ops will change the business and hurt their margins. That makes sense (even though it's disgraceful). Once cannabis is fully legalized small companies will have absolutely nothing to do with it, at least not in any major way.
  - omegaworks 13y ago
    The same way that small roasters and microbrewries have nothing to do with coffee or beer.
    - nawitus 13y ago
      Okay, I wasn't precise enough. There will be small cannabis manufacturers just like microbreweries, but they're portion of the total market will be negliglible.
- charlieflowers 13y ago
  Lol, I appreciate well-thought out disagreement. You may be right about VR ... possibly it's too early. But it's day will come, undeniably. I also think full legalization of marijuana is undeniable, even if there are some roadblocks. Rust, as far as I know, is the only language trying to pursue compile-time memory safety while still giving the developer control over memory allocation and cleanup. That's absolutely a game-changer, and no other language (that I know of) is even trying to tackle it. There's a lot I don't love about Rust, but that one feature trumps everything. There are sexy languages I get excited about (Nimrod, Lisp, Haskell), but the feature the world needs most is memory-safety with low-level control. I think once that feature is delivered with a full release, the world will flip from "ho hum" to "holy crap, we have to have this."
  - kibwen 13y ago
frozenport 13y ago
No no no. There is nothing visionary about seeing pot is going to be big. Right now its a lot of small players that will have vicious,vicious competition. Are you going to be the one to win?
a3voices 13y ago
Rust will never be a 'gold rush'. The human brain will always be the limiting factor no matter how good a language is. The true gold rush will be when computers have strong A.I. and create everything for us, from concept to implementation.

pyre 13y ago

How does the Rust programming language translate into a 'gold rush?'

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sedev 13y ago
It seems that they're saying that marijuana legalization is like a gold rush, not that Rust is --- i.e. marijuana legalization, Rust, and VR, are all manifestations of Living In The Future, and additionally, marijuana legalization is a gold-rush situation.

soup10 13y ago

Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing economics. I guess they are making lots of money already and fear consolidation and industrial grow ops will change the business and hurt their margins. VR has a long way to go imo. Having used the first gen occulus, though interesting, it feels gimmicky and very much reminds me of 3D glasses(in terms of hype vs how cool the tech is in practice). Few people will willingly strap a vision obscuring black box to their face for more than a few minutes at a time to try it out. Probably worse than that, even if it was fun to play games with, it probably wouldn't catch on mainstream for a long time because the dork factor is incredibly high. It's like google glass on steroids. Rust is not that different from existing languages. I appear to be disagreeable today, apologies.

nawitus 13y ago
>Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing economics. I guess they are making lots of money already and fear consolidation and industrial grow ops will change the business and hurt their margins. That makes sense (even though it's disgraceful). Once cannabis is fully legalized small companies will have absolutely nothing to do with it, at least not in any major way.
- omegaworks 13y ago
  The same way that small roasters and microbrewries have nothing to do with coffee or beer.
  - nawitus 13y ago
    Okay, I wasn't precise enough. There will be small cannabis manufacturers just like microbreweries, but they're portion of the total market will be negliglible.
charlieflowers 13y ago
Lol, I appreciate well-thought out disagreement. You may be right about VR ... possibly it's too early. But it's day will come, undeniably. I also think full legalization of marijuana is undeniable, even if there are some roadblocks. Rust, as far as I know, is the only language trying to pursue compile-time memory safety while still giving the developer control over memory allocation and cleanup. That's absolutely a game-changer, and no other language (that I know of) is even trying to tackle it. There's a lot I don't love about Rust, but that one feature trumps everything. There are sexy languages I get excited about (Nimrod, Lisp, Haskell), but the feature the world needs most is memory-safety with low-level control. I think once that feature is delivered with a full release, the world will flip from "ho hum" to "holy crap, we have to have this."
- kibwen 13y ago

frozenport 13y ago

No no no. There is nothing visionary about seeing pot is going to be big. Right now its a lot of small players that will have vicious,vicious competition. Are you going to be the one to win?

a3voices 13y ago

Rust will never be a 'gold rush'. The human brain will always be the limiting factor no matter how good a language is. The true gold rush will be when computers have strong A.I. and create everything for us, from concept to implementation.