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1. missedthecue · 1790812270 · focus · HN ↗

   Begging economists and dating app designers to understand that the problems with the dating market are not a matching problem but a clearing problem. It's very tempting to think that if one could devise a sufficiently clever algorithm they could solve these problems but it's simply barking up the wrong tree.

   1. jfengel · 1790813659 · focus · HN ↗

      What's a clearing problem? (A quick Google did not turn up an answer.)

      1. dotcoma · 1790813752 · focus · HN ↗

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         1. truculent · 1790814122 · focus · HN ↗

            > the problems with the dating market are not a matching problem but a clearing problem.

            > In markets, it can mean buyers and sellers aren’t being matched at the expected price/quantity.

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