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Ukraine Offers to Pay Russian Soldiers to Surrender(defenseone.com)
10 points by jwally 5y ago|1 comments
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by jwally 5y ago
That's fascinating. Matt Taibbi recently did an article - a takeaway from which was that Facebook is currently doing exactly that - burying content that is true but lends credence to crazy. https://taibbi.substack.com/p
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by jwally 5y ago
It does seem odd that a CMBS lender would finance a ~$80MM loan on a site this risky if it was this bad. I’ve worked in a special servicing (loan servicing for troubled and REO assets) shop and overheard the headaches that an environmental
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by jwally 5y ago
This? Pareidolia (/ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər-/;[1] also US: /ˌpɛəraɪ-/)[2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or me
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by jwally 5y ago
I’ve always wondered why nobody’s ever set up a porn-for-hire business (maybe they have) to hide a prostitution business behind whatever laws make pornography legal. It’d essentially be an escort service where the “John” finances the “shoot
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by jwally 5y ago
The hardest part of successful RPA implementation IMHO is in not automating stupidity. It’s too easy to send EY or whoever in to replace some god awful process by “Larry in AP” with a “bot” that just replicated what he does - no matter how
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by jwally 5y ago
This isn't somewhat related - it's the root cause :-)
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by jwally 5y ago
I like the analogy of laws-against-drunk-driving more.
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by jwally 5y ago
SPREADING: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_(debate) ) Spreading is the act of speaking extremely fast during a competitive debating event, with the intent that one's opponent will be penalized for failing
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by jwally 5y ago
From my naive perspective, the Bible itself has a lot of warts that are pretty indefensible. This isn’t to say the Bible has nothing of value to contribute to society; but as an authority on morality there’s a lot of amoral things god does.
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by jwally 5y ago
For a $120k signing bonus, and a salary / incentive comparable to what I make now; I'd start today. This is a good point. I should probably start interviewing now to at least get practice, and at best I can land an amazing job or
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by jwally 5y ago
It's a big-ish US company with over 25k employees so I feel pretty confident they won't welch. I get 57k in severance (10yrs, currently 135k / yr), 34k in bonus, and 17k in retention bonus; but if I leave early I get $0.00. T
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by jwally 5y ago
This is helpful, thanks! Just purchased the book. I have a pretty solid background in relational db's (SQLServer, MySQL, SQLite), used MongoDB a lot 5 years ago, but kind of let it go. I've built several web-apps via Node.js &#x2F
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by jwally 5y ago
I built a script to get all of my kids pictures off of their daycare website. I shared it, and it spread. I’ve received the nicest emails from people thanking me - including a guy who lost his job and his wife had cancer and couldn’t afford
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Ask HN: Losing job at year end. What should I do in the meantime?
7 points by jwally 5y ago|14 comments
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by jwally 5y ago
Here's mine from 12:57 to confirm your hypothesis. https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
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by jwally 5y ago
I'm a layman, so I'm not 100% certain on this, but I think this is a quantum version of Laplace's Demon; where if you know all the information about the state of a system, you can calculate what the system will look like at a
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by jwally 5y ago
I'll throw in my $0.02; maybe add in a way to pay off the mortgage early; make extra payments or whatever.
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by jwally 5y ago
1000% this. I’ve seen it happen with excel, access sql-server; and RPA. Some some Frankenstein’s monster is cobbled together to solve a problem whose best solution would be “stop producing the report that nobody looks at” only to have it sl
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by jwally 5y ago
Maybe I'm too cynical, but my experience with RPA via automation-anywhere is that the primary audience isn't IT or Engineering, but frustrated Line-of-Business middle management who are tired of waiting for IT to build them a solu
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by jwally 5y ago
To be honest, I'm stealing from here: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/11868 (The cost of making excuses) Which if I understand; would go like this on explaining UFOs: Naive Approach: P(ALIENS) = 50% p(~AL
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by jwally 5y ago
I forget the math behind it; and could be totally wrong but I think for every additional caveat you add to a hypothesis to make it fit the data post hoc, it cuts the odds of your new hypothesis in half.
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by jwally 5y ago
It’s Peppermint-Patty(?) from the Peanuts cartoon pulling the football away from Charlie Brown just before he kicks it. Fool me once, shame on you; ok I know the last 892 times we told you it was different but it turned out not to be differ
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by jwally 5y ago
Was literally about to posit that as a solution. It’s way above my pay grade but I wonder if homomorphic encryption could be leveraged at scale without compromising security.
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by jwally 5y ago
For me, one of three things, given the amount of noise. Maybe being too restrictive but: 1.) Major peer reviewed publication (Nature, Scientific American, etc) publishes an article about this 2.) Several skeptical science communicators (Mic
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What would make you believe Aliens visit Earth(youtube.com)
2 points by jwally 5y ago|7 comments
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by jwally 5y ago
Inspired by PBS Spacetime's latest video about when its reasonable to believe we found proof of ET Life. What is the minimum evidence you would need to think Earth is being visited by Aliens?
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Josephus Problem: Suicide via Fizz Buzz(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jwally 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Do Public Profiles Encourage Fake Reviews
1 points by jwally 5y ago|0 comments
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by jwally 5y ago
Dumb question: if you un-tethered reviews to user profiles (or removed user profiles all together), wouldn't this problem go away, or fall drastically? If amazon could give me the scores from verified-purchasers, show me anonymized com

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