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I met all my girlfriends including my wife in nightclubs. I didn't even like nightclubs but wanted to meet women. This probably sounds as quaint as arranged marriages nowadays.
I met my wife when she asked me how to get out of vi. She was a new PhD student, and I was the departmental sysadmin. To be fair to her, she knew vi just fine, but we had these messed up DEC keyboards with no ESC, where ESC was mapped to F11.
Speaking of LTV, the power users in online dating can easily be worth several hundred a month. Super swipes and super likes are about $1 each these days and in crowded dating markets you have to rely on them heavily if you're hoping to cut through the noise of everybody else's profiles. I'm actually surprised Tinder and co haven't started selling an option to bid money to have your profile be seen first in your city.…
I do not understand the bit about the noise. It's like saying it's harder to find a partner in a bigger city, because there are so many other people? As long as the gender ratios remain similar, I don't understand how a higher amount of users results in worse dating odds. Are you referring to the paradox where the same ultra-hot 100 people get all the messages, were the site's population 100, 100k, or 100 million?
This page reads normally on mobile, but on desktop it's eight columns wide, scrolls horizontally, with each column being 1/4th the screen width.
The horizontal scroll actually isn't that bad, but what killed it was using italics for the entire text. What the hell???
in that context, the italics is sort of like how you might get a summary in italics at the start of a book chapter.
I used to work for a German dating site called friendscout24 when it was still in it's early stages. we worked with a psychologist to help improve the quality of the match-making logic (now be2.com). I didn't really care too much about the product back then and was mostly trying to scale the backend which was my passion. Linux, Java lot of traffic and scaling issues everywhere in these pre-cloud days. The whole thing…
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Or maybe the opposite? Race as most people conceive of it today is primarily a social construct with only a slight genetic basis.
Most people in your room? In reality you know race by persons face. Is face a social construct?
What do we mean when we talk about human races anyway? I've been thinking about this for a few minutes now and I am stumped.
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Body odor is probably mostly genetic. As human genome sequencing gets cheaper I expect someone will eventually start a dating service based on genetic matching. With a large enough training data set of successful long term relationships you could probably figure out combinations of genotypes that are likely to be compatible. (Or maybe it will end up being no more scientifically valid than horoscopes.)
This is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever heard and this generalized would most likely lead to the extinction of our species (or at least reinforce really bad racist stereotypes).
Suck it up buttercup, Nature is not egalitarian!
I used to work for a German dating site called friendscout24 when it was still in it's early stages. we worked with a psychologist to help improve the quality of the match-making logic (now be2.com). I didn't really care too much about the product back then and was mostly trying to scale the backend which was my passion. Linux, Java lot of traffic and scaling issues everywhere in these pre-cloud days. The whole thing…
Wow...that’s so wrong. I was al2ays curious how they got women to sign up to such degrading websites when I see those ads. Now I know...
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Most people in your room? In reality you know race by persons face. Is face a social construct?
As far as I can tell, race has no taxonomic significance when applied to modern humans, because all modern humans are the same species . The system for grouping people together by facial features seems to be a social construct most of the time. I can think of a partial exception to this rule: facial features which can be linked to diseases and injuries (for example, the tell-tale evidence of stroke make it possible t…
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Most people in your room? In reality you know race by persons face. Is face a social construct?
As far as I can tell, race has no taxonomic significance when applied to modern humans, because all modern humans are the same species . The system for grouping people together by facial features seems to be a social construct most of the time. I can think of a partial exception to this rule: facial features which can be linked to diseases and injuries (for example, the tell-tale evidence of stroke make it possible t…
I find it hard to understand how some people still cling to 1960s "there is no such thing as race" arguments while in the real world you can send a swab of spit to 23andme or similar services and get a precise breakdown of your ethnic background down to the percentage.
We believe that the $0.57 average revenue per user that Match Group reported in their Q2 2018 Investor Presentation is just a fraction of the user profile's real value. At the risk of taking the wrong thing away from this article...IAC is an undervalued stock?
Unless you think marrige and long term relationships haven't seen the bottom yet, I can't imagine why dating website user information should be worth a lot as people find the person they want to be with and move on.