Wait what? Have you like, been on the web at all? How the hell are javascript frontends not used everywhere?!
Who cares? There is no reason for it to exist, and it's continued existence is arguably what OP said; that and the abject laziness of CFO types.
Sure, your own server is fine when you have unlimited time; but once you want to save time (CFO: to pay less salary; personal: to have more time in life for other things), AWS makes a great deal of sense.
Sorry, but LOL. That's so low on any regulator's agenda that it wouldn't make it even as a campaign point if we were to elect a "president of IT", let alone a real-world senator or mayor or president.
Imagine a little icon or traffic sign or so we put on websites informing users about independently measured power effiency. Could work with privacy and network footprint as well. Hell, maybe I should put up a competition for graphic artists to design such a thing, with a 1k USD/EUR prize.
> javascript frontends are the great for programmer fights, but thankfully most of the web doesnt use them
By frequency of retrieval, JS frameworks are the majority of websites served.
> kubernetes is relevant to like 100 people on earth
Even if it's not k8s, most companies benefit from a container orchestration system.
> crypto is entering the plateau of productivity
cryptocurrency will always be a niche product until it can provide the same services and assurances that banks do. Most people overwhelmingly prefer the availability and security from carelessness, petty fraud, and mismanagement that banks provide that they even pay for these services, than the not-entirely-complete protection from state actors that crypto provides. That's what holding crypto back, not regulation.
Cryptocurrency is meant to replace currencies and central banks, not banks (retail). Banks are institutions built on top of currencies (there are a lot of companies doing that with cryptos btw).
To me it seems like the same logical flaw of any the Unabomber thinking sending mail bombs could shut down all industrial civilization. It not only doesn't make sense but it has no logical connection. It is less logical than thinking one could conquer the US with an army of bowmen on horseback - it makes no sense given the massive disadvantages but an army can conquer at least.
Their actual roles of currencies and central banks are "the medium needed to pay taxes" and pegging the currency ratio to optimize for the economy.
The closest replacement I could see being viable would be the central bank issuing their own as an option and perhaps allowing "instanciating" and "deinstancing" to physical currency.
AI/ML is actually everywhere already. To the point where most people don't even recognize it as AL/ML. The problem is that it's not the image of AI that has been sold to the public and even the tech generalist community by books like The Singularity and Superintelligence.
It won't be the $1500 + a high end PC version of VR though.
Absolutely 100% true, I have experienced this first hand. Unfortunately, many of the videos they try to promote on VR systems were shot with a single lens and are just "2D in surround"-- these come across as flat and uninteresting to me, especially after I saw videos with actual depth. In those cases I would be happier with a monitor. But the depth & immersion is completely worth putting a headset on for me.
Also, on the surface it looks like initial Oculus Quest sales are going well. Sold out at my local Best Buy and showing 1-3 week lead times everywhere else (including direct order). Could be artificial, but time will tell. I was already satisfied with the GearVR on an older Samsung Galaxy, and initial reports are that the Quest is a significantly noticeable improvement.
- VR was a niche from the start, a lot of people were doubtful, and the people that weren't know that it 's not going to work and are already moving on.
- javascript frontends are great for programmer fights, but thankfully most of the public-facing web doesnt use them, they 're irrelevant to tech's progress
- Uber has nothing critical to offer to technology except an also-ran in self driving cars
- kubernetes is relevant to like 100 people on earth, and doomed to be obsolete in 1 year. not critical to tech progress
- AWS isn't critical to tech progress either, its bubbled because of easy startup money and lazyness. will be a good thing to see it fade away. Meanwhile , check googles TPU offerings for some progress.
- Who needs a 3rd browser engine when every website looks like bootstrap?
Those said, crypto is entering the plateau of productivity. It 's being held back by hostile regulation , governments and banks and AI hasn't even started , its going to be a wild ride. The web is slowly decentralizing which will be huge too