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YC App: What was your answer to the last question?

9 pointsmattjaynes11 comments

Since this came up recently, I thought I'd share my answer and also ask other applicants to share theirs. I'm sure there were some great ones!

Also, non-applicants - what would you have answered? :)

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### Question:

Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

### Answer:

Personal discovery: To get your bottom really clean after a BM:

1. Wipe

2. Put a dab of lotion or soft-soap (lotion works better) on some doubled-up toilet paper

3. Wipe again and repeat until you are squeeky clean

I know this is random - but man it works great!

Bonus: Those air-freshener sprays don't work. You end up with a bathroom smelling like air-freshener and poo vapors. What works fantastic is the squirt body sprays from the Body Shop - for some reason if you just squirt those in the air after the BM, it totally kills the BM smell and all you can smell is the body spray (disclaimer: I learned that from a girlfriend).

Tiger Woods can benchpress 320lbs

I'm a non-applicant, but my response would be:

It's completely astonishing the change that occurs in a man the moment his first child is born. Not when his child is born, or after, but as the child is being born - the father actually changes and is never the same person again. Nothing is more important than that child and as the father you will make sure everyone understands that, and if they don't they had better get the hell out of your way - cause you are man and you are repopulating the Earth.

Amen! Keep repopulating bro!

Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.)

I feel that a lot of people I've met have a startup mentality hidden deep within them, but are unwilling to share it publicly. It's only when you pry a little deeper do you realize they share the same desires that you do. For example, I met 2 of my coworkers at startup school that I had NO IDEA were into startups because they never talked about it at work. To a certain extent, many people haven't come out of the "startup closet".

"We found from someone we met that random number generators on poker sites are powered by actual physical devices (e.g. lava lamps), and the results are cached for many thousands of hands in advance. So in a very loose sense, everything that happens in an online poker hand is predetermined. Since we're both big on poker, we found that kind of a mindfuck."

Hmm... you could argue that everything in a real world poker hand is predetermined since the cards are shuffled before they are dealt and they are not reordered thereafter. Of course, if you're playing online, future hands are also predetermined, a property that is not typically true when you are playing in real life, so I guess that makes it strange.

The thing to keep in mind, though, is that as long as no one has the means to predict what will happen during a given hand (aside from using standard probability), then the game might as well not be predetermined. It's basically the same as the free will vs. destiny argument, as far as I can tell.

Not for variants like Stud, where people folding changes who gets which card next.

For THE, the cards are predetermined from the start of the hand anyway, so the only difference ever is the betting.

I discovered that a surprisingly large number of improv and sketch comedy performers are hackers. (something like 15%)

Kevin has discovered the universe's greatest civilization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor

And before anyone else gets upset, this is a dupe, but I'm curious to hear responses from those who missed the first thread.

"if you have a date function at 10pm, your date will be angry with you if at 10:45 you're not dressed and are talking to your buddies about image sharpening algorithms"

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