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Got recommendation?
Hoping for one, ultimately. A starting point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30904003
That's cool, thanks
How fateful?
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Re: How fateful?
#232When my wife and I combined our photo libraries later in life, we found a photo of the two of us, back-to-back at a ball a few years before we first met.
I wrote software to find minimum spacetime distance between camera rolls using embedded GPS. It runs all client side if someone wants to try it out or take up the mantle.
https://github.com/Lucent/photo-distance
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Romantic relationships formed in your early 20s are statistically unlikely to last. University is a fine place to meet people and have fun, but don't count on it as a place to find "your" significant other.
But if instead of having a relationship that lasts forever, you value having a meaningful romantic relationship that lasts 5 or 10 years, university is pretty good.
Yes of course. But that's not what the person I was replying to was asserting.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had my catalytic converter stolen. Thanks to location history I could check when I left the car there and when I came back and noticed the problem. Since at first I didn't know problem was result of a theft I didn't take note of the time when I noticed the problem and I also could recall for how long the car stayed there. Location history enabled me to accurately and confidently report the time window when crime oc…
Did that help with tracking down the thief too? I suspect the outcome is still the same of your catalytic converter being gone for good, even if it helped you narrow down details for a police report. As such, the utility is still zero, since the desired outcome is "get my property back", unless you needed this many details for insurance purposes (they usually only ask for a police report, and police are happy to take…
> Did that help with tracking down the thief too?
Of course not.
> I suspect the outcome is still the same of your catalytic converter being gone for good, even if it helped you narrow down details for a police report.
Correct.
> As such, the utility is still zero, since the desired outcome is "get my property back", unless you needed this many details for insurance purposes (they usually only ask for a police report, and police are happy to take any data since they are unlikely to find the perpetrator anyway).
That was not the desired outcome. My desired outcome was to make reporting to the police go as smoothly for me as possible which I'd preferably entirely skip if not for the fact that insurer required me to report it.
Talking to the police (or anyone really) is a stressful event for me so any help with establishing what to say was very much appreciated.
On semi-related note my car is at repair shop for 3 months already and I have no idea how much longer will it be because apparently no supplier of catalytic converters is willing to estimate when they'll have a single item for Toyota Auris.
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#235Plot Twist: When google's algorithms decided those two individuals should pair, it started showing them ads for the same events in order to increase the probability of them meeting. The goal was achieved by the system in 3 months, exactly as predicted with a 99% probability with a 95% CI. The system's next goal is to subtly nudge the couple to reproduce within the next year in order to help google meet their user acc…
It's a funny "joke" but for a large percentage of people, their college decision and entrance exams were the determining factor in who they married; where you put yourself has a huge effect on whom you meet.
And ironically, if you met your partner on a dating app in a large city or metro area, your dating encounters were ostensibly under direct influence by a tech company’s algorithm, yet you were likely in a pool vastly larger than a college campus.
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That's some Black Mirror level dystopia there, and totally within the realm of possibility, if it isn't already happening. Sync that up with Apple Watch 8's ability to estimate ovulation, and poof, declining birth rate problem solved! I'm scared.
It gets worse; to keep people in the workforce they can do the opposite, steer compatible people away from each other during the optimal reproductive window.
It gets worse, it only steers over-performers and under-performers away from each other so that the majority middle-tier can be used for reproduction.
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#237Could this be an idea for an app? You can search your contacts and it will show location, date and time of when you were less than 20 feet from each other.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no promos in maintaining the dystopian nightmare program so it will be replaced by new dystopian nightmare programs that do the same thing but worse every 2-3 years. Eventually, enough dystopian nightmare programs will be running in parallel that they will actually create a utopia due to unexpected interactions between the dystopian nightmare programs.
Knowing google they'd have 6 competing dystopian nightmare programs running concurrently. All would have similar names.
And only one of them would work in Singapore for some reason.
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Unitarian Universalist Church. Ethical Culture Society. There are quite a few non-credal churches or "not-a-church" organizations built along churchy lines.
Many people bond over political activism and political groups. I know many such couples. 100% secular, no gods involved, no "church" even in the name.
I would argue in the current climate "political activism" and "political groups" have replaced God and the Church as a religion. Secular, certainly, religious absolutely. I've heard from some people that they won't even consider dating someone who has even an iota difference in political views. If this doesn't sound like religious dogma I'm not sure what would.
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#240Many years ago, when everybody had Nokias with the Bluetooth on, I used to do a similar thing. I created a S60 python script that kept scanning Bluetooth mac addresses and link them with the cell tower I was connected to (no GPS yet on mobiles).Then later processed the logs to see if I encountered the same people in different locations and times. And yes, I re-encountered a bunch of Bluetooth mac addresses in differe…
I believe the Nintendo (3)DS does something similar, but makes it into a gameplay mechanic in supported games, SpotPass and StreetPass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass > Using the console's background connectivity, a Nintendo 3DS in Sleep Mode can automatically discover other Nintendo 3DS systems within range, establish a connection, and exchange content for mutually played games, all transparen…
ah! really cool!
I really love all these types of interactions in apps and games I wish there were more esoteric UIs and tech :)