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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.

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Post by downandout »

tokenadult wrote: post #70

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…

There was a pretty entertaining Ricky Gervais movie called The Invention of Lying in which everyone on earth is physically incapable of lying, save one. Before you ask for ubiquitous radical honesty, watch it :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmXodInxTU

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

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Post by dllthomas »

alukima wrote: post #44
7Figures2Commas wrote: post #25

> I'm Jordan, a 28 year old software developer living in California. I've always been direct and never had a problem telling it like it is. I have a wide variety of interests outside of work that include Finance, Men's Fashion, Diet/Nutrition, Weightlifting, Sports, Travel, Music, and countless other topics. Brutal honesty: nothing here leads me to believe that Jordan's feedback is any more useful than the feedback o…

If anything he's in a bit of a bubble based on his age, location and interests. If I pay for honest feedback I'd like to get it from someone who is not exactly like me.

Well, that depends on my goals for the specific feedback. If I want to know how to get a good reaction from people in bubble X, then asking someone in the bubble makes sense. Asking someone further is valuable for different reasons.

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

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Post by jtheory »

DonHopkins wrote: post #100
suyash wrote: post #54

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.

His name has just vanished from my head... but there's a famous chef whose secret trick for finding the best restaurants in a city he's visiting is to locate the most active community discussing food online, and post a comment saying how much he liked (random restaurant here) in that city.

Then just scan through the flood of indignant response/corrections.

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

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Post by Hytosys »

jtheory wrote: post #137
RainSunshine wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…

That was part of my point -- I personally don't have any real overlap with his life context (and I do have people who can discuss my flaws with me, with enough honesty that it's not always comfortable). But there are people who could seek him out as someone a bit further along than they are, on a similar path, plus some market for people who'll try it for fun.

I think you run some very good points. For me, I agree. I have very few people in my life, but the ones that are happen to be great at notifying me of the things that I do that aren't good.

I'd wager that there a lot of people out there that ultimately do not have such friendships. A lot of people have poor self-esteem and surround themselves with crappy, dishonest, alike people. The idea here is that some of those exact people will have just the amount self-actualization that you need to email this guy. Hopefully this guy is willing and ready to meet these people more than half way and do his best to empathize.

I realize that I just issued a lot of insults to a group of people I explicitly said I do not belong to. Self-acceptance is a great thing to encourage and facilitate though. I wonder if that's this guy's intention...

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

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Post by unknownBits »

The LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This site is for entertainment purposes only.

Stupidity rules for ever.. ..the people who do it, and the people who buy it..

Please, send your valuable money to the people suffering real poverty, you might save some children from sexual abuse and raise your soul.

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

#147

Post by allsystemsgo »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #128
dxbydt wrote: post #106

Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?

http://www.codementor.io/ , although you'll probably end up paying $30 for 15 minutes, since 5 minutes aren't enough to explain your question. I saw it here, and I've been mentoring there quite successfully, although I haven't had any clients with really advanced questions yet, only beginners. I am looking forward to helping people with hard design issues.

You probably won't get hard design issues there.

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

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Post by alxdistill »

jerguismi wrote: post #129
RainSunshine wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…

Usually the consultants I pay or meet are much more expensive than $10.

How about $75?

http://talkshopwithus.com/creatives/

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

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Post by tjradcliffe »

downandout wrote: post #141
tokenadult wrote: post #70

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…

There was a pretty entertaining Ricky Gervais movie called The Invention of Lying in which everyone on earth is physically incapable of lying, save one. Before you ask for ubiquitous radical honesty, watch it :). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmXodInxTU

I was really disappointed in this film for how unimaginative it was. For example, they still had money (actual physical tokens) whereas in a world where everyone was honest you'd just have a number written down on a page that you would update with every transaction, or some other trivial mnemonic device for accounting.

They also didn't deal with the question of people who were honest but mistaken--how would dispute resolution work in a world where everyone in the world was telling the truth, but no one in the world had a very good idea of what the truth actually is? And so on.

It was a one-joke movie that could have been a much deeper look at how lying and our strategies for detecting and dealing with lying are embedded into our every social interaction, including those that apparently have very little to do with it. And it could have been incredibly funny, instead of just kind of meh.

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