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Think about all the infinite numbers of glitches that happened in the past and prevented you to meet other possible wives :)
I tell my wife that she and I always end up together in every multiverse, including the one where our relationship somehow causes that universe to collapse on itself (also that’s the same one where Hacker News is implemented as ASP.Net app)
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Think about all the infinite numbers of glitches that happened in the past and prevented you to meet other possible wives :)
What if meeting the wife was the glitch?
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If there is no incentive to operate the network, who will sustain the infrastructure? If there is no cost to using the system, how do you prevent spam abuse? This is what crypto solves. It doesn't have to be a get rich scheme, just issue tokens to those that run the network, and have users consume tokens when they send messages.
But it doesn't solve it; it just deters some of it. If all it takes is to pay money, you can wave your penis at anyone. A paid service applies a downward pressure on spam, sure, but you can't go without moderation.
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Think about all the infinite numbers of glitches that happened in the past and prevented you to meet other possible wives :)
I tell my wife that she and I always end up together in every multiverse, including the one where our relationship somehow causes that universe to collapse on itself (also that’s the same one where Hacker News is implemented as ASP.Net app)
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I didn’t use Omegle much, but I actually met my now wife on there. We used the text only thing where a third person suggests a topic. Must’ve talked for a good 2 hours on there before exchanging informations, I shudder thinking that even the smallest glitch could have changed my life so drastically. We met 11 years ago on the platform, a completely random fluke. And while I haven’t really used Omegle in a long time,…
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For people who are looking for this -- It's a common refrain on Twitter that Twitter can be a better dating app than actual dating apps. I think the mechanism here is similar -- both Twitter and Omegle encourage a sort of stream-of-consciousness, semi-anonymous communication style that facilitates soul entwinement.
I met my wife because she saw on facebook a screenshot someone has taken from a tweet I did about a terrorist attack. (Charlie Hebdo 2015- Paris). This encouraged her to read my blog then to get in touch, etc… So meeting my wife happened because: 1. There was a terrorist attack 2. I tweeted about it 3. The tweet became popular 4. A random someone took the time to screenshot it to share it on Facebook 5. That random s…
This is devastating. I have so many fond memories of meeting fellow weirdos over text. The days where StumbleUpon always took you somewhere exciting, cool, beautiful, interesting, funny, or novel. Where you looked at what people did with The Web 2.0 and only marveled at the possibilities of what could come. Truly feels like the death of one of the old guard, a Usenet-of-the-2010s. I even used it during pandemic times…
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The chance of a small glitch or anything that did not happen in the past is as likely as a ghost dinosaur coming up to you and scamming you out of all your money. Looking at the past through a probabilistic lens is irrational, unless you are doing it to predict the future through information collection. Sort of, of topic but anyway….
I don't know why you were downvoted but it's true. My dad was almost scammed this past weekend. Or kind of scammed. The thing is that of a group of 200, 195 were scammed and he wasn't (or he was, but he got what he paid for in the end). And he wasn't just because a random event, he was very luck. I kept thinking in how lucky he was and how sad my family would be if he was part of the 195. But it didn't happen. Maybe…
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And so now they’ll have to choose one of the other, even seedier bars. The kids aren’t any better off. You’ve made a poor analogy, though, since obviously it’s very trivial for a bar to validate age at the door. If such a thing were easy for Omegle to do, I’m sure they would.
If it’s trivial for a bar to validate, why not the same for a web site?