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Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

#93

This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…

You would be surprised how often you just... lie. Even if it's something unimportant, or a story that doesn't exist. You can lie about the most meaningless things. If you pay attention to your lying you will be horrified how often you do it, and how pointless the things you lie about are.

I guess I form part of this "radical honesty" movement. Once you learn to trick your mind out of lying it's so refreshing. Lying is extremely stressful, I have no idea why we have a natural tendency to employ it.

Instead of worrying if my wife finds out I've lied about drinking with colleagues ("I'm working late"), I know that I can ask her to fetch me if I go over the limit.

Although, there's a difference between being honest and being a dick.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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I can get brutal honesty on Reddit for free. (And polite honesty, also for free, from Dear Abby.)

But will it be a thoughtful, well written response?

> But will it be a thoughtful, well written response?

/r/subredditdrama

It's full of self-righteous people who enjoy watching other people fight. On the other hand, they tend to be people who are less interested in fighting and rather enjoy engaging conversation. I've had some brilliant belief-altering discussions in there, and most importantly, situations where both parties "respectfully agree to disagree."

You just have to find the sweet spots in Reddit - it takes a fair amount of participation to finds those places (but SRD is a good start).

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

#99

Interesting...I was thinking about starting a site called comfortinglies.io, where I'll tell you how wonderful you are, how it's all going to be ok, etc. Maybe we could swap links?

Siri should implement a service based on Mad Magazine's "Don Martin's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions".

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

#100
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Idea Fail, Internet's collective intelligence can do this better than 1 person plus these website are free to use: 1. UX, Design: Dribble, Behance 2. Code : Stack Overflow 3. High Level Architecture questions: Stack Exchange 4. Business Idea etc : HN, Reddit, Quora 5. Miscellaneous other questions: HN, Reddit, Quora etc

And of course the best way to get a detailed informative reply from an expert for free is to post an incorrect answer, and then get your ass flamed off and handed to you on a platter for being wrong.
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