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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun. A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case. The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then cau…

A lot of judges are somewhat corrupt, the difference is how much. But make no mistake, the power/influence they yield is enormous and i would certainly restrain myself for ever doing this. A judge ( in Belgium) stopped a documentary about his criminal doings, pledged psychological issues ( and his brother is a shrink) and is now happily drinking beers and enjoying ( forced) early retirement. He accepted briberies fro…

Well aware of the politics. The play here was to predict the ways corruption works and use their own moves against the other side.

Obstruction of justice can already be shown to have occurred within the prosecutor's office, in a case against the judge related to her faking of a crime. Police had concluded there was no threat. That page went missing from her file but I have it from another source.

A number of my friends and acquaintances are, in fact, high-level judges. This court had no way of knowing this.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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https://triviaroyale.io

I created the current version in around 2017 and finally gave a real name to the project about a month before a very similarly named game launched to big fanfare.

My trivia game is a multiplayer live quiz aimed at the nostalgia of the IRC quiz bot days. I have started several rewrites from scratch over the years but only now do I finally have a version that seems ready for public release soon with more friendly features. (I'm targetting Feb 22nd!)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…

This is pretty funny, but in functioning financial markets, it's just as hard to pick losers as winners. The beliefs of professional traders about whether a stock will go up or down is already baked into the price. If you believe a stock is going to go down, and you are right, you can make money by shorting it.

Exactly, the only sure way to lose money is to trade so much that it all goes away in commissions.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, could you explain why this happens normally? Isn't the output neutral line of the DC charger supposed to be pretty much 0/ground anyway? Or is it that the neutral is a few volts off the ground?

I wish I could, but I honestly don't know. All I know for sure is that using the ground pin 100% fixes it. If anybody on here could explain it, I'd be super grateful!

There are filtering capacitors between mains and ground, see https://www.edaboard.com/threads/capacitors-between-power-an...

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…

Need any help with this? You've piqued my interest.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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https://stonksfolio.com

I started it to track my all my investment accounts in one place and a couple of years ago decided to open it up to the public. Active users are in the hundreds but not growing rapidly. Tried to monetize it with Patreon but only 2 people actually subscribed.

It's a fun project to work on, though, and not having paying customers allows me to ignore it until I get the enthusiasm to work on it again :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Web app that helps motorcyclists and automotive enthusiasts find fun roads to ride/drive. Uses OpenStreetMap data and currently indexes all roads in the US and Portugal. The "YawRate" of a road is a single number that sums up how fun a road is. https://app.positiveyaw.com

This is really cool. I'm currently working on an iPhone app for helping save favorite and newly discovered routes. Wish I had the know-how to add a feature like this haha. I'm just using Apple Maps for my stuff. Nice work! :)
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