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We ended up going on a date still but it did make me raise my eyebrows.
I would have raised one eyebrow, not 2.
Do you have a unibrow by any chance?
One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
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That's just like, your opinion, man. SMS/MMS is decentralized, open, and works on every modern mobile phone out of the box. No other text messaging technology does this yet.
Open for Verizon to read/modify, you have no way of knowing the other half’s identity (was their number given to someone else in the meanwhile), no encoding is specified/due to non-ASCII characters taking more SPACE (in 2022) so auto-SMSs still today will just force ascii text, making it often unreadable. Like, it is literally a single digit number of bytes difference. Also, you need like.. a carrier plan to access,…
I get what you’re saying but your home or McDonalds wifi is decidedly a third party, although encryption may mitigate that.
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I agree that this is a middle school level analysis, but I've seen it a couple times in practice during my career. 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) 2. A manager at my old company was advised to get an iphone for communication with VCs. One of our old leaders had heard commentary from a V…
> Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android I haven't lived in a country where text bubbles used to be a thing, but I noticed this. People, even people who are smart and kind in other aspects, still cling to the easiest social cues. Doesn't matter if you wear a Margiela t-shirt or what you drive; your tinder date or a person who you just met in a bar will look at your p…
Okay let's overwhelm people by using foldable phone!
/s, ... but I start thinking that's why Galaxy Flip sold well than I expected.
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#324White / green, blue / black, are the hardest combinations to read due to distribution of cone cells in the retina (though fine if it is light blue / black, or dark green / white). This is compounded even more by pentile on certain Apple phones once they moved to OLED.
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> 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) This is a red flag against the women in question, not the Android user. That attitude/behaviour is a great indicator of a gold digger. You'd be dodging a bullet by avoiding these women. The only other people that share that attitude are teenagers. So if…
I have 4 daughters. I hope they marry rich guys. I have other criteria, too, but rich is definitely on the list.
How rich?
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) This is a red flag against the women in question, not the Android user. That attitude/behaviour is a great indicator of a gold digger. You'd be dodging a bullet by avoiding these women. The only other people that share that attitude are teenagers. So if…
I have 4 daughters. I hope they marry rich guys. I have other criteria, too, but rich is definitely on the list.
Why? That's a very stupid criteria. You'd want them to marry smart and decent guys, regardless of their wealth...
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
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> 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) This is a red flag against the women in question, not the Android user. That attitude/behaviour is a great indicator of a gold digger. You'd be dodging a bullet by avoiding these women. The only other people that share that attitude are teenagers. So if…
this is not indicative of a gold digger. holy hell. this is indicative of someone with poor judgement AT MOST.
true, this is not indicative of a gold digger, it's indicative of stupid for sure
Re: One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that this is a middle school level analysis, but I've seen it a couple times in practice during my career. 1. In the dating scene, I have heard women remark that it was a red flag (Android users are stereotypically poor... despite a large number of techies using Android) 2. A manager at my old company was advised to get an iphone for communication with VCs. One of our old leaders had heard commentary from a V…
Its ever so fun to have to deal with middle school with green bubbles. Apple is directly responsible for some kids getting bullied, but I guess it works out for them since we had to buy some more Apple devices.
If the Android kid can beat the shit out of the Apple kid, I doubt anyone will bully him.
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I think using Android can be either a low income signal or a Grey Tribe [0] cultural signal, and people on dating sites might want to screen out either (or both). Like you said, it’s about arbitrary norms, but we make assumptions about others all the time based on which norms we follow. An analogy from a different angle is that texting your Tinder match from an Android phone is a bit like applying for a tech job with…
.. people use SMS on tinder ? I had overall a couple hundred matches and going through classic text has been exceedingly rare, 80% of the time conversations move on to instagram, and otherwise to fb messenger or whatsapp
US is all texting. Only foreigners use WhatsApp.
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I have 4 daughters. I hope they marry rich guys. I have other criteria, too, but rich is definitely on the list.
Why? That's a very stupid criteria. You'd want them to marry smart and decent guys, regardless of their wealth...
"Smart" and "decent" are desirable qualities, but it is questionable whether or not they can provide a better life for a woman than wealth. Poverty is known to be a true killer of any kind of romance and love. It doesn't seem far fetched to agree that being wealthy and enjoying a stress-free lifestyle can be an aphrodisiac.
Also, I think that poverty is actually more correlated to stupidity and rudeness. I've read that stress can literally make your brain shrink from the excess of cortisol. Rich people are generally labeled with undesirable properties, which (at least in my case) often comes from a personal bias - it feels unfair to watch someone else have everything I want, so at least they're a bad person and I'm not, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
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To sidetrack a little bit:
> That's a very stupid criteria.
This is completely redundant - your point would be perfectly conveyed without this sentence. HN guidelines phrase it this way:
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."