Datomic .. not just because of datalog, but because its hands down the best implementation of a AWS lambda based workflow I've seen (Datomic Ions). It's such a peach to work with.

wrt to Datomic there's also another Clojure DB using Datalog called Crux that's pretty interesting. I built my most recent project on that.

Rust is awesome and very eye opening and it's a great alternative for almost any Golang use case, I just hope they prioritize enhancing compilation times if possible.

> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works,

You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.

Genuinely curious, what’s wrong with the lightning network?

I don't know why the parent comment talked in such absolute terms, but these recent problems may be relevant:

https://news.bitcoin.com/hidden-lightning-network-bug-allowe...

https://news.bitcoin.com/mishap-sees-user-lose-30000-btc-on-...

Bitcoin.com isn't a neutral source on LN related material. The parent company (St Bitts LLC) directly invest in Bitcoin Cash startups that compete directly with Bitcoin itself.

The bug has already been patched, and had a limited userbase. The user who supposedly lost all his Bitcoin ended up not being true, vast majority was recovered. It's also worth noting that the user also deliberately went against various UI warnings that funds may be lost.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2468

Linking to a Bitcoin.com article about anything BTC is like linking to a Fox News opinion article on Obama.

For starters the whitepaper concludes that a 133mb base block size is needed for it to work at scale. Bitcoin currently has a 1mb block size limit, which it will never increase.

It's not the lightning network -- it's micropayments.

Three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232978

one design problem https://medium.com/@homakov/catch-22-of-lightning-network-in...

> RoamResearch - The technology for this has been around for a while, but it got put together in a interesting way.

Just checked out the website, how is it any different from Dynalist or Workflowy?

Never tried dynalist. Used Workflowy.

Workflowy is strictly an outliner. It's like Gopher--hierarchical, unlike the Web, which is a graph.

Feature-wise, Roam is more like a graph. You can really easily link to other concepts, and rename pages (and everything renames). It also has a page generated daily, for things you want to write down.

Feeling wise, you get to write things and collect them and organize them later. I think it's more condusive to how people think and research. You might have a piece of data, but you're not sure where to put it yet. Most other note taking systems forces you to categorize first.

I’m surprised people are still looking forward to the Lightning Network. Layer 2 has missed the boat because of all the politics and contention between the Bitcoin factions. Decentralized finance is already happening on Ethereum. We have stable coins like Dai that underpins loans.

> It's a dream to replace cloud computing as we know it today.

Perhaps you may be interested in Golem project devoted to distributed computing: https://golem.network/

btw since two weeks ago the official Oculus Quest store is not sold out anymore (although it might be sold out again, haven't checked since it got back in store)