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Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)

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Post by always_good »

hal9000xp wrote: post #82
pascalxus wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For your point #1, the reason you have this problem is ultimately supply and demand. There's certain subsets of demographics that are highly uneven due to many factors: 1 of which is that men date younger women, hence women in greater demand than younger men, and older men in greater demand than older women, etc. A dating site won't be able to fix this.

It's true that it's supply and demand problem. However, I noticed that problem #1 is much more acute in online dating than in real life. I personally had much greater success in real life dating than online dating. It's strange since online dating supposed to make dating easier, not harder! There should be a way to discourage quantitative behaviour (i.e. when you play statistics game) and encourage qualitative behavi…

Online dating is only an accurate caricature of real life. It's a pure numbers game. Instead of 10 guys hitting on the girl you think is cute, now hundreds of them are.

I don't know what it means to be closer to real life. The reason your have social less momentum in your day-to-day is because you just don't meet that many people.

Also, I'm not sure what increased qualitative behavior would mean in online dating. Sure, there are bozos who just say "hey" to everyone, but those are trivial to filter out. Online dating is a vessel for quickly escalating to a meet-up. I think you should put less importance on the quick-fire internet game because most people don't want to languish there either. People want to meet, fuck, make connections just like you.

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Post by shaki-dora »

lr4444lr wrote: post #21

Fix news? it was enough to keep writing stories about how the president met with someone and they each said conventional things written in advance by their staffs Yeah, we now recognize that as propaganda. Maybe the web is finally helping people wake up to the fact that news was never really working.

This comment lacks both an appreciating for the nuance of international diplomacy, as well as journalism.

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Post by Trundle »

smsm42 wrote: post #115
matte_black wrote: post #109

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I don’t understand why it’s such a taboo. Sperm donors are already selected based on favorable traits. If you’re a loser with no job or have a family history of diseases and cancer they do not want your sperm. And there’s nothing stopping people with poor genetics from breeding promiscuously with multiple women anyway, leaving behind single mothers in their wake. The Darwin Awards are a dark celebration of people dyi…

> And there’s nothing stopping people with poor genetics from breeding promiscuously with multiple women anyway, leaving behind single mothers in their wake. There's nothing that stops any people from "breeding promiscuously", provided they find suitable and willing partner. It is when you start talking about who is worth access to reproduction and who is too genetically inferior to be allowed that is where trouble s…

The poster hasn't said anything about people not being worth having access to reproduction, or being allowed to.

I can't help but think people are reading some form of government mandate argument from their preference when they haven't mentioned one.

I like swimming. I don't think anyone should be forced to swim nor that its the governments business to increase swimming.

That guy wants to filter partners by their long term health potential. I don't see any reason to believe he thinks people should be forced to do the same nor that he thinks it's the governments business.

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

tlb wrote: post #127
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #122

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Dating is still pretty broken for minorities or people who aren't into the heteronormative scene. Grindr has been great for gay men, but for minority folks (whether they be part of a minority group or have minority preferences), dating is still very much unsolved.

HER ( https://weareher.com/ ) is dating for lesbians and other non-heteronormative people. Color Dating ( http://www.colordatingapp.com/ ) lets you match by race/ethnicity. Muzmatch ( https://muzmatch.com/ ) has features needed by Muslims. [All 3 are YC-funded]

Oh yeah I love the fact that there are startups in this space, I just meant that dating is not yet solved in the minority space.

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Post by Trundle »

HugThem wrote: post #97
pascalxus wrote: post #57

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i don't have the actual recipe, just the ingredients. With a link to their recipe. there are no instructions on our site, except their description which they publish through JSON+LD. Basically all the info we show is just stuff they publish through JSON+LD

You make it sound like somebody gives up their copyright by using a certain data encoding.

What copyright? Maybe I'm missing a section but nothing on his site looks like it would fall under copyright protection.

Lists of ingredients aren't protected by copyright. Hell, neither are basic instructions and he doesn't even have those.

Photos are but this looks like it would fall under fair use. If you have a fashion blog you're allowed to use a photo of a dress from the makers website when you're writing about it. It's hard to comment on a product if you can't share a photo of the product. This guy is commenting on various foods by showing their nutritional value.

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Post by eliblock »

I'd say that almost everything besides #1 has been well addressed by new companies or the big 5 since 2008. But the RIAA is a symptom that went away - the problem is still there, and streaming is only part of the answer. Spotify may seem like a solid solution to end users, but artists can't earn much from their content alone, and that means less people can work on creative projects.

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Post by greglindahl »

HugThem wrote: post #40
pascalxus wrote: post #34

I solved #16! If you are "searching" for a food or recipe based on it's nutritional contents (for example: I want foods/recipes high in potassium and selenium, but low in sodium), check out https://kale.world/c You can search by over 20 different nutrient types, weight them, and filter them to your hearts content.

Where is that data from? Also, it looks like you republish recipes from other websites. Do you have their permission to do so?

You might want to research the legal cases regarding copyrighting recipes.

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Post by mertd »

mrep wrote: post #42
seanalltogether wrote: post #19

I would love it if someone tackled the auctions market better. Ebay continues to focus more on being a marketplace, and promoting buy it nows. A real auction house should extend the time limit as long as people are putting in bids.

I'm amazed auctions have not taken over live show tickets. Scalpers skim off millions of dollars every year that events/middleman startup could capture themselves if only someone designed a proper live show ticket auction.

There is a great Freakonomics episode on exactly that.

tl;dr was that people don't like buying stuff via auctions.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...

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Post by aorloff »

chii wrote: post #129
hueving wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But the real hero here is AWS and its "primitives"-based, bottom-up approach to outsourcing all computing. I'm not sure 'hero' is the right word. AWS has created culture of lock-in and closed source products being acceptable in many otherwise open source pipelines. Additionally, people funnel significantly more of their money into AWS than they would with dedicated hardware. AWS is a plague on infrastructure and a b…

aws has made infrastructure easily accessible to many without large outlay of capital, but with capabilities comparable (or even exceed) to any physical infrastructure you can buy. this has made software services much easier to sell. in a world without AWS, only monied interests can hope to bring a service in any scale. even in the face of vendor login, AWS has increased the democracy of starting a new business.

In my experience, its actually at real scale (tens of millions of concurrents) that you want to move off of AWS, and at smaller scales where it makes the most sense.
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