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The initial phase of being in love or going through a breakup, I can't concentrate and my work suffers. When a relationship is working, it has a positive influe
by shdon 18y ago
The initial phase of being in love or going through a breakup, I can't concentrate and my work suffers. When a relationship is working, it has a positive influence on my well-being and that in turn positively affects my creativity and productivity.
- adammarkey 18y agoLove is like a TCP connection. Startup and teardown are expensive, but once you're past that, you're in the butter-zone.
- cperciva 18y agoStartup and teardown are cheap. The expensive part is losing a packet in the middle of a high-throughput conversation.
- ShardPhoenix 18y agoI'm not sure I'm following this metaphor anymore.
- neodude 18y agoSo you're saying that randomly hooking up with many people is like BitTorrent?
- kirubakaran 18y agoI'd say BitTorrent is gang-bang. [edit: by gang-bang, I meant group-sex. (I'm not understanding the down-votes)]
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- kirubakaran 18y agoDDoS would be gang-rape
- cperciva 18y agoI wasn't being metaphorical -- I was just commenting about TCP.
- manvsmachine 18y agoIt actually made sense when I read it. Hitting a "rough spot" in a relationship can be a draining experience and end up negatively affecting other parts of your life if you're not careful.
- eyudkowsky 18y agoYou win the thread.
- bokonist 18y agoThat's the hardest I've ever laughed reading hacker news. Wow.
- sho 18y agoSo does that make casual sex UDP?
- blhack 18y agoToken Ring.