Why would you want to meet someone exactly like yourself? You already know you. I'd rather meet people different from me.
8^8 – Find another you
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#62It's fascinating (not being snarky) that this post has received about 50+ votes since I first saw it, and I've not once been able to pull the site up completely (never made it past the bot detection, and most of the time, won't even come up).
So I'm trying to understand the phenomenon:
- HN folks are bookmarking it for later based on comments (even though it may/may not be worthy of a +1)
- HN folks are +1'ing it based on the idea derived from the comments
- Those +1'ing it are actually able to make it through (though it doesn't seem so based on most of the comments)
The fascinating part to me is that, assuming it's one of the first two, how much +1's an (arguably) broken link can get based on comments.
The idea sounds interesting, and the site may very well be +1 worthy.
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#63I wander if this could be from the guy asking how to spend 100k on AWS.
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#64The basic claim is false on many levels: Very few of us are lucky enough to come across our soulmate within our lifetimes. We tend to choose our friends and spouses from the limited pool of people available in our immediate vicinity: students at our schools, people who live in our neighborhoods, colleagues at our workplaces. Statistically, it is extremely unlikely that we will come across our soulmate. First off, the…
I've always been puzzled by the fixation on similarity as a metric for determining compatibility.
As you point out, too much similarity can adversely impact compatibility. Conversely, lack of similarity is often times a positive thing.
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#65Why would you want to meet someone exactly like yourself? You already know you. I'd rather meet people different from me.
Truth be told, opposites don't usually attract. People prefer others who are similar to themselves.
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#66I love the idea! Since I personally believe that every person has a 'perfect match'. To those who don't, consider the following: 1) You either do or don't get along with certain people. 2) This is determined by how they act, look and your dispositions to those actions and looks. 3) Given these terms for quantifying the amount of 'like' you feel towards a person, it follows that there are combinations of act/look that…
Except that I'm fairly sure a lot of studies have shown that the more time you spend with someone, the more you like them (at least if you liked them to start with).
I suspect you're much more likely to find a good romantic partner by spending more quality time with people you initially like and find attractive, rather than spending all your effort trying to meet as many different people as possible.
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#67I love the idea! Since I personally believe that every person has a 'perfect match'. To those who don't, consider the following: 1) You either do or don't get along with certain people. 2) This is determined by how they act, look and your dispositions to those actions and looks. 3) Given these terms for quantifying the amount of 'like' you feel towards a person, it follows that there are combinations of act/look that…
Except that I'm fairly sure a lot of studies have shown that the more time you spend with someone, the more you like them (at least if you liked them to start with). I suspect you're much more likely to find a good romantic partner by spending more quality time with people you initially like and find attractive, rather than spending all your effort trying to meet as many different people as possible.
Uhh, I agree with you. But what I don't get is where you see the contradiction in what we both said.
Where do we disagree?
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#68Yeah, the site is painfully slow. A site with a multiple choice test should handle thousands of users at a time with a tiny server. How is this thing made?
Restarted the router 3 times thinking it was a problem on my end. sigh
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if there are always 3 animals (like on mine), then one out of every 35 (= 7 choose 3) bots will get through it anyway. Even if each picture is uniformly and independently an animal or non-animal, one out of every 128 bots will get through. If bots are a problem, maybe use a stronger captcha. It sounds like a neat idea but it's taking too long to load for me to check it out. I'll try again later.
I got two animals and a bird. Whether I click on just the animals or all three of them is part of the test, right?
Birds are very much animals, both colloquially and scientifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
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#70I love the idea! Since I personally believe that every person has a 'perfect match'. To those who don't, consider the following: 1) You either do or don't get along with certain people. 2) This is determined by how they act, look and your dispositions to those actions and looks. 3) Given these terms for quantifying the amount of 'like' you feel towards a person, it follows that there are combinations of act/look that…
Well, the 'matching' might be correct at a certain point in time, but people do change. These kind of questions might nail how people feel and think and act now, however what about the future? Relationships start and finish all the time because of the dynamic nature of people's personalities (even if the changes are small ones).