Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller

Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by sure_about_that on Thursday September 15, 2022 @11:09PM (#32861625)

== Those numbers are so horrendous that you'd be better off going to a bar and hitting on every single woman. You could get shot down 50 times in a row, yet as long as you want to 3 bars in a week w/at least 20 approachable women each, you'd still have a date within a week, which is already 1/3 of the success the guy in your example had in a tiny fraction of the time.==

Treating relationships as an equation to be optimized might be the real hindrance.

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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by julianeon on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:00AM (#32861900)

You could say that the lowest common denominator of both of these methods is that, in both of them, there is an equation: you are either optimizing the equation, or part of the equation being optimized. You are absolutely being treated like a number on Tinder, after all.

But you can choose the system that gets you what you want, faster.

So, in choosing the lesser of two evils, choose the bar. Choose anything other than Tinder. Because pretty much any dating alternative to Tinder is better than Tinder.

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Re:Software engineers paying 75K to get 3 inches taller by sure_about_that on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:41AM (#32865928)

== You could say that the lowest common denominator of both of these methods is that, in both of them, there is an equation==

You certainly could say that, but you have no idea how the variables will react. That sets people up for disappointment when they think they’ve “optimized” human relationships.

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