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How Singapore's government-run dating service works

255 points · 369 comments · danielfoster

  1. water-data-dude · · focus · HN ↗
    You know, there's probably fewer perverse incentives with a government run dating service. Obviously I can imagine ways it could suck, but when I compare them to how commercial dating services are run it's hard to see how they could do a _worse_ job.
    1. throw930839009 · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. stoltzmann · · focus · HN ↗
        >Autocratic goverment gets all your personal info

        They got your birth record, your education records, your bank account details, your employment record. They can write themselves a warrant to dig through your life. The government already knows all this.

        >chooses a mate for you.

        You're not forced to marry whoever you match with in the app.

        >This is beyond incentives, it is just perverse!

        ok this is just slop

        1. throw930839009 · · focus · HN ↗

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          1. amunozo · · focus · HN ↗
            Where in the 48 countries in Asia this is like that? Are you reducing the largest, most populated, and most diverse continent on Earth to a single country?
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