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by singular 14y ago
Sure, and the fact that many, MANY people have experienced this height-bias, and women openly admit to preferring it is entirely my imagination. I think this 'think positively and it will be' stuff is more than a little wishful thinking. It
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by singular 14y ago
I'm not so sure, a woman desiring a strong man to protect them sounds pretty evolutionary. Isn't the whole pick up artist thing based on exploiting such?
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by singular 14y ago
May I ask how tall you are? I am not trying to be facetious, just curious. I agree that it's a numbers game, assuming you are at least vaguely viable.
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by singular 14y ago
I looked a lot better, but there was definitely still flab. You exclude the possibility that other factors outweighed (no pun intended) the weight issue? We're talking > 55lb, so it obviously had a major visual impact. I don't believe i
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by singular 14y ago
Obviously online, I have frequently attempted contact, before reaching a stage where I could ask that, but that was the purpose. In real life, I have usually not got so far as to ask for a date, as I have been rejected out of hand before ge
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by singular 14y ago
Thanks, that's kind! I am overweight right now too, that photo was when I was lighter (recently) - I lost loads, then gained again partly due to anti-depressants, partly due to feeling there was no point in keeping it off. I think confidenc
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by singular 14y ago
Assuming you're >= av. height, and of reasonable relative social standing... For a tall person height isn't a factor at all. They could say that as height isn't a problem for them.
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by singular 14y ago
I would be more than willing to do that, if I believed it was as much of a factor as height/looks/cocky confidence. I actually experimented with this, lost > 55lb in weight, worked really hard, and it made no difference. None. As you ca
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by singular 14y ago
I think it's a matter of prerequisites. Women will look at you as a friend instead of a potential partner if you don't fit them. That's when all the nice-guy stuff of kindness, etc. that many women claim to be what they're looking for (and
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by singular 14y ago
Citation required? Women might say this, but in my experience it's simply not true. Like the whole 'love yourself so others can love you' line. Which is just B.S. in my experience. Having said that, I agree confidence makes a huge differenc
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by singular 14y ago
No, I'm not. Anybody who's tried in real life as well as online, knows what an impact these factors have, especially height, irritatingly given its arbitrariness in western society. I spent months trying online, have tried in real life, par
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by singular 14y ago
Yeah, the thing is, after that many messages sent, done thick-skinnedly, in a big pool, with a friend who also is short, though slightly taller (5'7"), with him doing significantly better, and after lots of previous attempts AND lots of att
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by singular 14y ago
It's not, just exaggerated, as facing 100 emails in your inbox vs. some guy face-to-face is a different proposition I think. Perhaps a distillation of my point is - 'do dating sites give false hope to undateable people?' I'd love to see the
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by singular 14y ago
I remember seeing this thing on TV where people with disabilities attempted to find dates, and a ~ 3' woman who featured on it said she preferred men >= 6'. QED.
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by singular 14y ago
Have tried many, paid/non-paid, with same outcome. And shorter women hilariously still generally prefer >= av. height men. It seems to be a major genetic thing. I shouldn't gonzo myself into this too much, as I've decided to give up on
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by singular 14y ago
I don't think anybody owes me anything, sure, of course. Personally, I took the attitude of optimising profile, contact endless women using advice from those successful on the site to elicit replies, play the numbers game. My point is that
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by singular 14y ago
For a certain subset (perhaps minority) of the population, these sites are nothing but a bait-and-switch. And I think dating sites attract many of us (as I am indeed a member of this subset.) I'm talking about people who lack the pre-requis
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Pretty Visualisation of Sorting Algorithms Using Canvas(codegrunt.co.uk)
2 points by singular 14y ago|0 comments
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by singular 14y ago
There is a significant difference in that Go Daddy has specifically engaged in bad business practices, whereas namecheap appear to care about not doing that, so it's not so much about size as behaviour.
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Steve Yegge on GROK - Parsing All the World's Code(youtube.com)
8 points by singular 14y ago|0 comments
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by singular 14y ago
Screw these negative guys, this is amazing. Great work! :-)
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by singular 14y ago
It's funny to see this as I (and I suspect probably many others) felt compelled to take a screenshot when this happened, because it was so bizarre to see the front page consist of a single story - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/140966/hn_jobs.png
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by singular 14y ago
Not to be too off-topic, but this sort of instant nasty cynicism is all that's wrong with HN of late. One of the rules of this place is 'be polite', would you respond like that to a stranger in person? This kind of reaction makes me not wan
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by singular 14y ago
Really awesome article @jacquesm, I love these intricate, in-depth, long struggling-for-a-labour-of-love stories. In fact, not to wax overly lyrical, I think a lot of stories that appeal to people in general follow that pattern. Something a
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by singular 14y ago
Ah, point taken! That wouldn't be such a good outcome :-) I slightly regret the response now actually, I was being quite majorly hand-wavey, I guess the fact that there is a great deal of uncertainty here and the promise of easy weight loss
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by singular 14y ago
Hm the conclusion there appears to be that claims for it aren't based on research as there is very little, which the parent acknowledges. The weight loss claims here are of course anecdotal, but it certainly seems worth a try, given that it
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by singular 14y ago
I remember when it was just a bunch of geeks hanging out in the back of a pub... now look what it's become! :-) Major congrats to Ben and Dmitri for all their hard work on the meetup. Great work.
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by singular 14y ago
> HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. True, but both have Q&A 'modes', e.g. Ask HN and IAmA AMA.
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Surfthechannel.com owner sent to jail(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by singular 14y ago|2 comments
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by singular 14y ago
Ah yes of course. But if so, wouldn't they have issues interacting with the driver, since they have to be x64?

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