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by jwally 8y ago
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -sun tzu
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Ask HN: Has anyone heard of RPA? I think it is a bad idea. Am I wrong?
1 points by jwally 8y ago|0 comments
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by jwally 8y ago
What about a bunch of dummy links that aren't visible in the UI (funky css selectors) that are mixed in with other links but provide junk content and take forever to load. If you can randomise how those selectors are applied enough it
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by jwally 8y ago
The U.S. would do itself a huge favour by allowing student debt to be bankruptable. College prices can rise infinitely because there is an unlimited supply of AAA+ debt to feed it. Drop that rating to reality and investors don't buy th
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by jwally 8y ago
Outsourcing a problem because you don't understand it or want to work on it will make the problem worse and you poorer.
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by jwally 9y ago
Have you ever thought about making your own? It's surprisingly easy. I have ulcerative colitis and a friend recommended diy yogurt. It's not a silver bullet but it helps. Im making some now with whole milk, and starter cultures I
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by jwally 9y ago
Sellers of actively managed funds.
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Show HN: Index funds are better than Managed funds?
1 points by jwally 9y ago|2 comments
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by jwally 9y ago
I went to my first Christmas recital this year (2 yr old) and remember thinking what a favor the school would have done everyone to film the performance themselves and sell the video. Instead everyone was rushing for better filming position
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by jwally 9y ago
If I were king of netflix... There'd be a "cable-style-menu" option to mimic the way cable / satellite menus have looked since the late 90's. Maybe 50 or so channels of similar programming running on a time schedule
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by jwally 9y ago
Something feels fitting that Accenture is a spin-off of Arthur Andersen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
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by jwally 9y ago
Completely agree if you nuke the corporate / business tax as well.
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by jwally 10y ago
D=Vit + 0.5at^2 Ballistics was the first practical application of non arithmetic I encountered in school.
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by jwally 10y ago
This is kind of a show-and-ask, but I always wondered why a fake authorization site (google, fb, twitter, etc) isn't a security risk (ask); so I built one (show). This project comes with the following handy features to make your phishi
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Show HN: Fake Google Oauth2 for Spear Phishin'(github.com)
2 points by jwally 10y ago|2 comments
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by jwally 10y ago
I'd be happy to pay more in taxes if I knew the money would be spent wisely.
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by jwally 10y ago
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. -- Rahm Emanuel
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by jwally 10y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8074243
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by jwally 11y ago
Stab in the dark: Inverse Square Law + The number of stars in your field of vision can't be infinite.
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by jwally 11y ago
But you can't have infinite stars in your field of view since they'd get in each other's way; blocking radiation. Using the tree example from the article, you wouldn't see infinite trees, you'd only see the pieces t
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by jwally 11y ago
All police revenue should go in a pool at the national level, and be randomly distributed to all states. "Protect and Serve" not "Loot and Pillage".
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by jwally 11y ago
I'd take Yahoo's data with a grain of salt. Was tinkering with options prices there, and the data wasn't clean which lead to a lot of false positives (e.g. a lower strike call was selling for 1/2 of what a higher strike
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by jwally 11y ago
minor UI tweek... Maybe make the placeholder text on the landing page something like: 123 Main Street Anytown, US 12345 Instead of 1600 Pennsylvania. Maybe I just didn't eat my wheaties this morning, but my first thought when seeing th
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by jwally 11y ago
By these standards, how is alcohol still legal? Alcohol-Related Deaths: Nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in the
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by jwally 11y ago
By definition, that's not free. That's like saying that Texas is the best state in the United States except Colorado, Washington, and Nebraska. The previous statement contradicts itself. Either Texas is the best, or one of the oth
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by jwally 11y ago
Completely Agree. To play devil's advocate, what about treason (or some other form of state secret sharing)? When Julius (and allegedly) Ethyl Rosenberg shared secrets from the Manhattan Project with the Soviets, should it have been a
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by jwally 11y ago
jsLPSolver. https://github.com/JWally/jsLPSolver Easy to use, kind of quick linear programming / mixed integer linear programming solver in javaScript that takes models as easy to understand javaScript objects ins
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by jwally 12y ago
Is this doing anything that a private citizen couldn't do (taking pictures on public property and storing it in a computer)? Conversely, what would happen if someone took pictures of cars going in / out of NSA/CIA/FBI fa
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by jwally 12y ago
Can't say I put a lot of trust in this statement "It does not profile nor monitor user behavior. It does not record user information. It does not know who the user is. Users are not tracked nor re-targeted." from someone who
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by jwally 12y ago
It is in grams. Watch the video demo from around right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTdDJ6fu-c#t=97 When I'm doing the same problem in the actual tool, there's a "details" button which pops up

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