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Marl is the user, and Marl is the product. There is another side to this: businesses trying to reach out to people in their Marl-state.
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OK. But a single payer addresses none of those issues.
Well, it tries to. Whether or not it succeeds is the subject of lots and lots of debate, but single payer systems I'm aware of have accountability models driven by (usually public-sector) audits and quality controls that try to optimize for health outcomes. The rationale being that the payer (government) spends less overall, and is more likely to be supported (voted for), if the population has good health outcomes in…
Though I'm not optimistic about either its ability to fund healthcare or assess its quality.
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It should also be noted that match.com knows that it's business isn't "connecting people in stable relationships" but "luring people to pay for match.com by promising them connections that never work out." OKCupid had a model that increases the likelihood of matching with someone and ...never using OKCupid again. Match.com realizes that fundamental flaw. For their business to survive, they HAVE to be bad at the servi…
> There are some things that you simply CANNOT express in a "free market" because the measure of their success cannot be expressed in market terms. Sure you can. If you want to measure the success of your matchmaking company in market terms, you could charge users for your matchmaking service and then return their money if they don't get married. You put your money where your mouth is by betting on the success of the…
So here I am, downvoting my own posts.
I will say that your idea is trivially gamed. What startup is going to keep the legal staff on retainer to sue every person who "breaks up" with their partner, gets their refund check, and uses it to buy an engagement ring?
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When I first got online the average user’s IQ was no joke north of 120. Now of course it’s around 100. Someone needs to come up with a pithy term for how a subpopulation’s average value for any attribute approaches the population’s average value for same as the subpopulation’s size approaches that of the population. It’s conceptually a simple, even trivial, notion, but it’s cumbersome to talk about. That’s also why u…
Undergraduate degrees are becoming a stronger signal just not in the same way. It’s even more obvious with high school degrees. Most people cross that threshold, so the people who didn’t now represent a usual group of under achievers. The threshold is far below what FAANG’s are looking for, but requiring a HS/collage degree can effectively presort applicants for jobs with lower thresholds. Unfortunately, such methods…
Thinking about it I bet someone somewhere has a MA focusing on collage and produces incredible art, so no hard feelings here.
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OT: what's your blog based on? I looked for a colophon / about site page with no joy. Source suggests it's simply hand-coded HTML? Hrm... Apparently, plus some webscripts? https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-upkeep-software > https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/makers... >
That's right: I draft each post in HTML, then have some scripts which add indexes, headers, footers, and css, and make an RSS feed.
I also like the article preview hack.
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The best dates I ever had came from a language exchange site that doesn't exist anymore. Seems to resonate with the "filter for brainy people" filter OKC seems to once have had.
Crazy idea: dating site that forces all users to communicate through a second language. How to ascertain it's legitimately a second language, and not their native language, would be the tricky part.
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I appreciate your candor. Though I am upset, I realize this is the kind of thing that would be hard to see coming.
huh? the top point is that more users usually lead to a worse product, no?
The success of the "nightclub app" is that people feel they are a match only as long as they "drink", and by morning they are thirsty for more. Growth comes from the heartache of loneliness, failed relationships, and divorce. A worse product (poor matching, and stifled communication) is the actual goal of a more profitable dating app, not simply being a consequence of having more users.
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That's right: I draft each post in HTML, then have some scripts which add indexes, headers, footers, and css, and make an RSS feed.
Thanks, pretty cool. I also like the article preview hack.
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I also met my wife on okcupid. I wonder how many of us their are.
I'd be curious if you're all over 6' tall. I never had any luck on OKCupid.
I will say that all the women I dated on OKC were shorter than me, likely because it’s common for women to filter by height.
I dated women who were not shorter than me, but met them IRL.
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I can't say what percentage of Reddit users cared, but I can definitely say that the majority of Reddit participants—the people actually posting the content Reddit is trying to sell—have left. Reddit activity has dropped off a cliff: https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit
Are you sure this data is accurate? By the site you reference, r/nottheonion has ~30 comments a day: https://subredditstats.com/r/nottheonion But if I actually visit the subreddit, I see many posts from within the last 24 hours with 300+ comments each. Is it possible subredditstats.com had some kind of regression in its counting around that time? It could be related to the API changes.