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by jwally 7y ago
Are there prohibitions to publish in multiple publications?
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Honest question: what is the benefit of publishing in a peer reviewed journal vs something like Wikipedia?
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We did. Kudos on your success!
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I played with the concept a couple of years ago (mathfood.com as a proof of concept / toy / abandoned side project); and for me it was easier to build a meal I wanted to eat; plug it in; and it would tell me how much to eat PLUS
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by jwally 7y ago
About Food Choice: Can I flip the concept and say “I want my diet to look like {{this}} and want to eat a pizza” and it tells me how much pizza to eat PLUS what from my diet I’m lacking, and make suggestions that could help make up the diff
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by jwally 7y ago
Instead of taxing the income twice at lower rates with loopholes (corporate tax rate => capital gains rate) it would only get taxed once, but at a higher rate (marginal tax rate) with relatively fewer shenanigans.
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by jwally 7y ago
So I shouldn't hold my breath for term limit legislation to pass anytime soon either...? :-)
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Maybe I'm missing something super obvious, or I'm preaching to the choir; but why wouldn't it make sense to eliminate all corporate taxes; but also eliminate capital-gains-tax-rates? I'm not sure you'd have a 100% w
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by jwally 7y ago
I’ve been using servers spun up by this for two years now. Worth it for the dns blocking abilities alone. Made phone browsing tolerable again. Thanks!!
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by jwally 7y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. We have fire tv and Amazon has added more and more advertising to the point it’s nauseating (an ad for Shameless in the middle of a bunch of baby pictures is jarring). I’d be happy to pay an extra dollar / month t
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by jwally 7y ago
Anecdote: My wife and I normally file with turbo-tax, and usually end up owing money to the government. This year was different, and we actually got money back. We have to pay to use turbo-tax (like 39.95 or whatever). When it was asking ho
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by jwally 8y ago
Per Wikipedia a B2 bomber has an hourly operational cost of $135,000. No idea how many hours you have to train on the thing in real life to become proficient; but at that rate...yeesh!
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by jwally 8y ago
An Anecdotal "I quit" I read a couple of years ago about the (then impending) pilot shortage: https://www.jqpublicblog.com/punching-out-latest-dear-boss-l... Dear Boss, I’ve fucking had it. I’m finally giving up o
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by jwally 8y ago
So I work for a bank and constantly have to take compliance training... One of the courses is over disclosure of information to third parties. This info isn’t part of my personal bau, so I might have it wrong, but: There are two kinds of da
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by jwally 8y ago
I eat the same thing for lunch everyday because it’s one less thing I have to worry about. I used to be religious about what I ate and would weigh everything, calculate ratios, make adjustments, and making the same thing (grilled chicken, b
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by jwally 8y ago
I'll second this. I live in Dallas (130k base 30k incentive - Informal "full stack" development) and talking to head hunters 120k feels like what the market is at the moment.
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by jwally 8y ago
It’s a fun topic of conversation that opens up other cans of worms involving religion, justice, heroism, etc.
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Ask HN: If all events are random or deterministic is there free will
9 points by jwally 8y ago|13 comments
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by jwally 8y ago
Given that 9/11 style attacks have been mitigated with cockpit locks and guns are kept out with metal detectors what exactly are they trying to prevent?
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by jwally 8y ago
Why wouldn’t a soul be subject to the same cause / effect nature of the universe? Even if the universe was run by Greek gods, it would still follow this chain of causality or be completely random. It seems like this applies to any thin
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by jwally 8y ago
Why would an addict use heroin over fentanyl if they both produce the same euphoric effects but fentanyl is cheaper / stronger? I almost always hear about fentanyl in the context of "...the heroin was cut with with fentanyl".
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by jwally 8y ago
What if the money was donated regardless. But if you fail it goes to an organization you don’t like. For instance say I don’t like Donald trump. If I fail my money goes to trumps reelection fund. But if it succeeds it goes to a charity that
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by jwally 8y ago
This American Life did an episode about a guy who was a polygraph operator; discovered how flawed it was; and has been crusading against them ever since and teaching people how to beat them. Worth an hour of your day: https://www
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by jwally 8y ago
Dan Carlin (hardcore history - which is awesome btw, and common sense) mentioned a couple of ideas that sounded interesting. I’m sure he’s not the inventor of the concepts and I have no idea how they’d actually work, but sounded similar to
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by jwally 8y ago
Note I wrote my father in law when he had gone too far down the rabbit hole and legitimately worried about the poison it spreads around his demographic: I left Facebook when I read some press release about it being designed from the outset
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...something feels unnatural about this
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It’s literally the only reason I still have a Facebook account. Couple that with Alexa picking out the worst version possible of the song I requested (“Master of Puppets - live by not Metallica on Spotify”) but seems to get it right with pr
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by jwally 8y ago
Following up on this is how heavy these things are marketed. We’ve spent around $1MM in the last two years on Automation Anywhere and around $2MM hiring consultants to implement it. Part of it is because our IT department is underfund and d
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by jwally 8y ago
Mostly screen scraping / macros. A lot of what I see is over marketed woo (“cognitive RPA”), but it’s basically a watered down version of selenium that (in theory) a programming novice could use to automate tasks. The tricky part is th
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by jwally 8y ago
I'm sure I'm overlooking something, but if its possible to beat the market by actively trading stocks, how come a vehicle like this doesn't exist?: I'll give you $100,000 of mine to invest. I'll pay you $7,000 up fr

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