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Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by kefka »

Codhisattva wrote: post #157
tsmith wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing). The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.

Yeah. Where's the "travel the world and live in a tent" option. My soul mate is definitely out there in a tent with mad cash in the bank watching a sunset from a mountain top. Sigh We'll never find each other unless s/he wanders into an internet cafe tomorrow before this rolls off of front page of HN... Hurry soul mate! HURRY down the mountain!

You cam make up whatever hair-brained scenarios you want, but 1 in 3 people in the US have debts in collections. Or 77 million people.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/29/pf/debt-collections/

So yes, "Pay off debts" is plenty sane, and yet not on there. And given the existing potential answers, gives credence that this is for rich white boys financed by rich mommy and daddy.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by iyn »

userbinator wrote: post #135
iyn wrote: post #39

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I like your idea about the hashtag. I don't think that the definitive answers are the best approach (I'd prefer multiple answers), but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers.

but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers It's 24 bits, so how about six hex digits, like HTML colour codes?

Yeah, it's the easiest approach if you allow only 1 answer. With multiple answers allowed we need 64 bits (using trivial encoding and representing each question/answers with 8 bits) or more, if each answer can be assigned "attribute"/priority (say user needs to order answers from the best to the worst).

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by Diti »

"8^8 is not yet available in your country at this time. Hopefully a translated version will be available soon." Wait, what? I don't need a translation, I just want to give that website a go.

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by naturalethic »

lips wrote: post #119

At a party you... ...listen in fear at the sounds of people who enjoy other people, observe small material details as though you were an anthropologist encountering alien beings, depend on searching for beer to consume time, and occasionally find someone who is amused by your off-kilter humor, but who ultimately is not really anyone you're likely to form a meaningful sober bond with? Oh, apparently I have to actually…

That was the only one I had trouble with

Re: 8^8 – Find another you

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Post by Nadya »

Tenobrus wrote: post #128
Nadya wrote: post #40

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What would this accomplish, other than perhaps not giving their email to 8x8? If they have taken the 8x8 test to know their answers, they may as well enter an email address to be alerted when they have a match. Rather than checking Twitter, seeing as 8x8 already plans to email you if you have a match. In theory if two Twitter users took the test and were a match - there would be no need to use a hashtag to tweet. Thi…

It would bypass the fee they apparently charge to actually connect matches (mentioned at the bottom of their homepage).

Right, I had forgotten about that after the first million.
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