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by jwally 6y ago
I tend to agree... Why would you go all the way to Earth with your god-like-technology only to get caught by our (to them) dumb-dumb radar systems and airplanes; and not at least say "hello". I'd think that if you can travel
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by jwally 6y ago
Say Goldman can beat the market by 20%. They sell you a fund that promises to beat it by 1%. The additional 19% return on YOUR MONEY they keep. You are guaranteed alpha at exactly 1%. Goldman makes fees and infinity ROI for taking risk. Win
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by jwally 6y ago
There should be a fund that guarantees a return in excess of an index (adjusted for fees). In exchange the fund managers would get fees and excess returns on their clients capital. This way instead of arguing over which approach is better,
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by jwally 6y ago
I never thought about it like that. Learn something new every day. Thanks!
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by jwally 6y ago
What if the solution to the Fermi paradox is that Einstein was right and nothing can travel faster than light and intelligent life is spread too far apart to notice one another? Our galaxy alone is 100,000 light years across, and we've
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by jwally 6y ago
Honest question. If your back hurt and your primary-care-physician recommended you see a chiropractor but you saw on wikipedia that chiropractic is pseudoscience with a risk of injury; how would you proceed?
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by jwally 6y ago
This is great info. Thanks for this. With sites like this, it feels like the citations are a form of DDOS or EULA boilerplating where they could demand naming rights to your first born because they know you won't read it.
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by jwally 6y ago
Bookmarking that. Thank you! I think I was starting to draw that conclusion. If a claim is in the Lancet, NEMJ, Nature, etc; its probably pretty credible. If a claim is in another journal; it shouldn't have much bearing on my decision
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by jwally 6y ago
Are there any guides / heuristics on how a layperson can evaluate technical literature? For example my mother-in-law is starting to micro-dose lithium and cited this article as evidence: https://www.lifeextension.com/ma
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Why people care less as more people die(wfaa.com)
2 points by jwally 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwally 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better; same thing happened to me. Ugly Frankenstein process to get our data out of a third party vendor who can only e-mail us reports failed half-way through its run, and I was about to spend hours digging through
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by jwally 6y ago
This is awesome info. Literally bookmarking this. Thanks! To your point, my kids fell in love with "Blaze and the monster machines" (a nickelodeon production that I actually like) and the 3 year old would talk about concepts from
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by jwally 6y ago
I've been in Dallas since '07, and I still don't understand the school system / hierarchy here; but it is fascinating when you look into it. Big money seems to go to Highland Park (public, but not Dallas despite being su
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by jwally 6y ago
Texas, Dallas: Nothing ground breaking, but I'll provide my anecdote as a possible antidote to survivor-bias: I have 3 kids (5,3,1). The 5 year old was supposed to start public school this year, but her pre-school opened up a private k
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by jwally 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! You're correct; the audience is niche. I felt like this would be perfect for the typical hacker-news reader. - Its a password manager - Its anonymous (no account to create) - It has a negative outlook on social
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by jwally 6y ago
Do you think it would help if it was open sourced? Credit card info is handled by square who Iframes all user inputs so I can’t see it. Password to unlock the pw you need a key, nonce, encrypted message. My server only ever sees the nonce
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by jwally 6y ago
I built a site (addictionlocker.com) which is a password manager that makes you donate to charity to get your passwords back. I built it because everytime I try to lock myself out of twitter, et al, I just unlock whatever I set up because I
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by jwally 6y ago
The quote you cite is interesting if not a little worrisome. Maybe its just acting as a first-filter of things to (not) investigate at more expense later? Otherwise you'd get a ton of studies promoting solutions as cause-and-effect whe
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by jwally 6y ago
Another good way to extend the life of weights that are too light: Increase Reps, Increase Sets, Decrease Rest, focus on pace while lifting (4 seconds down, 2 seconds up), and unilateral exercises (1-leg-squats). Not a substitute for everyt
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by jwally 6y ago
For what its worth, if you have the space for it, I can't recommend a pair of gymnastics rings enough. Unbelievable amount of versatility for $50. I've had powerlifting equipment, adjustable dumbbells, kettlebells, bands, access t
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by jwally 6y ago
YOU DON’T NEED TO WATCH THAT MUCH NEWS You will never have the political power to do something about all the terrifying problems we wave at you. The human brain just isn’t designed to take in a whole world’s worth of disturbing news. Most o
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by jwally 6y ago
I actually built a password manager for myself that charges me $$ every time I want to access an addictive site (addictionlocker.com) literally because I'd do just this.
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by jwally 6y ago
Matt Taibbi has a pretty good take on it I think. ( https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/19... ) I just built an app to control my own addiction (addictionlocker.com) and have thought a lot abou
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Show HN: AddictionLocker – Simple Password Manager to reduce screen-time(addictionlocker.com)
1 points by jwally 6y ago|1 comments
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by jwally 6y ago
I built this as a way to curb my own screen-time (which has exploded during the pandemic). Everything I set up to limit my screentime, I'd inevetably just unlock it (because I set the password) and binge harder. This lets me hide the p
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by jwally 6y ago
Ditto nukes
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by jwally 7y ago
This was just used to trigger a shelter in place in Dallas. Thanks to whoever built this! https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/03/22/hos...
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by jwally 7y ago
Not sure how much effort you want to put into it, but the raw data is in JSON files on the site under the following pattern: https://covidactnow.org/data/{{state_abbreviation} }.{{scenario_number}}.json (where scenarios
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by jwally 7y ago
War footage on the history channel was kind of ruined when I realized this.
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by jwally 7y ago
Why do you think it looks like a mall logo? /s https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/03/19/PARN/1a0bebe2-...

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