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Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by testplzignore on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:19AM (#34127417)
Going with some completely random things this year so that I look like a time traveler.

- Magnitude 8 earthquake in British Columbia in November.

- Major world leader dies in plane crash in France in March. Part of an attempted coup.

- JWST breaks.

- Lebron misses 64 games due to a right leg injury.

- TCU wins the CFP.

- Shipping is blocked for 2 weeks on the Mississippi River near Memphis.

- Coinbase collapses. Crypto mostly dead.

- Tom Brady Super Bowl MVP.

- Salesforce buys the remnants of Twitter.

- Toyota buys the remnants of Tesla.

- Lockheed and Northrop buy the remnants of SpaceX.

- Meta buys the remnants of the Boring Company.

- Cocoa shortage causes global civil unrest.

- Amazon forks Chromium and releases their own browser. Requires Prime subscription.

- NATO directly intervenes in Ukraine and pushes Russia out. WW3 trends on Mastodon.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by smileysteve on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:22AM (#34127451)
Amazon has forked Chrome for "Silk Browser" on fire devices. Prime not required.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by roge7331 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:19AM (#34128440)
Missed opportunity
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by testplzignore on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:49AM (#34137592)
At Amazon, always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by ozarker on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:47AM (#34127654)
> Tom Brady Super Bowl MVP

He can’t keep getting away with it :(

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by nubinetwork on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:09AM (#34127842)
To me those balls are perfect :)
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by cod1r on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:56AM (#34127722)
I find this hilarious XD. Unfortunately some of these aren't impossible.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by Nicholas_C on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#34128290)
> - TCU wins the CFP.

Most unlikely thing on here.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by plasticsoprano on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:30PM (#34211744)
Still feeling that way after last night? Might be the only thing he gets right.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by rwmj on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:18AM (#34128430)
> - Major world leader dies in plane crash in France in March. Part of an attempted coup.

This is, errrr, very specific.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by core-utility on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:29PM (#34129728)
It's not a coup unless it crashes in the Coup region of France.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by Huggernaut on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:54PM (#34129948)
Otherwise it's just sparkling government overthrow.
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by canadaduane on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:22PM (#34133495)
It's a great almost-specific prediction! Followers of ancient prophets would be proud. It's the kind of thing that has a 1% chance of being accurate--it sounds very specific because it mentions France, but has ample wiggle room:

- It includes "any major world leader" not just French leaders;

- If a world leader of any stripe were to die in a plane crash next March, people would still argue in favor of the prediction being correct, because the line between "not a major world leader" and "a major world leader" is quite fuzzy with room for "reasonable" debate.

- "Part of an attempted coup" is a great specific-but-broad constraint. What is an "attempted coup", exactly? A "successful coup" would be much more strict, but "attempted coup" leaves both the attempted-and-failed as well as the attempted-and-succeeded variants on the table. Also, one could argue that an "attempted coup" has many possibilities that are not immediately identified as a "coup"--for example, would a violent protest count? What does it mean to be "part of" an attempt? For example, suppose a leader is not part of the attempt personally, but is associated with someone who is. In that case, would the leader who left the country be considered "part of" an attempted coup?

For context: I grew up Mormon and grappled through many prophecies that seemed incredibly "specific" and somehow, incredibly, turned out to be true. This proved Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by BizarroLand on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:32PM (#34154145)
My bet is that it will be Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by roge7331 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:20AM (#34128454)
> - NATO directly intervenes in Ukraine and pushes Russia out. WW3 trends on Mastodon.

You can do this right now with 4 friends depending on the instance!

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by electrondood on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#34128934)
> Toyota buys the remnants of Tesla.

I think you have this backwards :-)

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by mensetmanusman on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:08PM (#34130099)
Especially if the ceo of Toyota keeps praising ICE vehicles just before they are about to be banned…
Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:07PM (#34130731)
<< WW3 trends on Mastodon.

Sir. You have won the internet today. I salute you.

It is funny. It is timely. It works on several layers.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by enos_feedler on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:46AM (#34137236)
> Amazon forks Chromium and releases their own browser. Requires Prime subscription

Allows click to buy anything you see on any page?

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? by kulahan on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:54PM (#34225473)
- JWST breaks

HOW DARE YOU