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10 points by rPlayer6554 ↗ HN
Hey HN,

What is something that you see has a lot of potential but is less known? It could be anything: a new technology, a style of music, heck, even a new species of bug that has been discovered. I'd love to learn about new ideas or discoveries people are working on.

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mattwest
RNAi

Deep-sea mining

The decision economy

Any technology that substitues niche, but critical, fossil fuel derivatives

baxtr
What’s the decision economy?
throwaway0asd
WebRTC and decentralization. I mean actual decentralization and not crypto bullshit or web services.
matt_s
The web is built on the pattern of servers sending files, or dynamically generated files, around to clients. Those files or programs that generate them always, 100% of the time, reside on servers. It may not be your server or there may be code-less or no-code abstractions but ultimately it’s coming from a server.

Can you elaborate on what you envision decentralization is? I can’t imagine decentralized anything on the web without servers. Blockchain is a distributed database much like tor, right? But those run on servers and one could argue a distributed DB is still centralized just spread out. That sounds dumb when I read it but a distributed DB is treated as a centralized entity, just replicating data. Not trying to be thick or snarky, I just don’t get what decentralized is supposed to look like.