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My understanding is that you can use Wufoo and PayPal Pro to keep users on your site AND not worry about PCI compliance. Seems too good to be true. Am I misunderstanding this page?

http://wufoo.com/2009/10/08/say-hello-to-paypal-payments-pro...

I see no evidence that the upper crust actually has become homogenous. Whether defined by education or wealth, the "elite" probably contains more unlikely members today than ever before.

I couldn't agree more. And don't think your personality isn't a fit. Several of my less outgoing (and in one case, downright awkward) roommates from college entered sales and came out more engaging and gregarious than I could have ever imagined them.

Assuming you've looked into it, how impossible is it to license all of a school's admission data (i.e. every applicant's GPA, SAT, and admission status) in some anonymous format?

I would have loved a tool that that would let me enter a GPA and SAT score and then using actual data could tell me that 500 students with comparable stats (like +/- 0.1 for GPA and +/- 50 for SAT) applied to school X last year and 380 were admitted.

The analytical training a lawyer receives could be invaluable to a startup if that lawyer can break out of his extreme risk aversion.

In my experience, a good lawyer will truly impress you with his ability to think through a problem, but might surprise you with his ultimate conclusion. Virtually any risk makes him hesitant, irrespective of the potential return for taking that risk.

Hackers have now solved every problem they face? None left? This sort of awe-of-our-own-brilliance seems more likely to retard the progress of this community than advance it.

Am I the only one who doesn't want to see this succeed? A business that can't control its cash flow should fail.

Yeah, shortages happen. But the complete exhaustion of credit makes me think this isn't the first time they've reached the brink.

As mentioned, legal language is (supposed to be) clear and concise. You'd have a strong argument that the merger doctrine should apply.

The merger doctrine holds that when there is only one way to say something (or a limited number of ways), then it cannot be copyrighted. One common example from the case law is game instructions.

Just as there's really only one way to say "The player who rolls the highest amount goes first", there's really only one way to say "Florida law governs any dispute".

Certainly run it by a lawyer willing to make the advice official. Good luck.

I agree. He seemed to think better of it as it came out and went on a riff about poker players.

On a scale of 1 to douche...

Membership fees are possible, but I get the sense that users would balk at paying "entry fees" for their dates.

It's also possible that local restaurants/attractions could sponsor certain dates (i.e offer kickbacks), but the site would have to be sending a LOT of dates per week to any given place for those kickbacks to materialize.

A third idea might be to take the community of active daters you have created and host paid events periodically. For example, for users who enjoy nightlife, you could have a blowout bash with a cover charge. For users who enjoy classic movies, you could have a wine tasting and a screening of a classic movie.

I'm sure there are better ideas out there for paid events, but you get the idea.

The chicken and egg problem is alleviated by the model. We needn't supply each user with a huge pool of profiles from which to choose - we only need to supply each user with ONE other person also willing to go on that date.

In theory, the site could function with just two users.

Very similar to Brian Garner's writings and his push to simplify legal writing. He recommends four stages of writing:

Madman - put ideas on paper with no regard for formalities

Architect - organize ideas into a a rough outline

Carpenter - "build" according to the architect's specifications, still with little regard for word choice or grammar

Judge - edit carefully for word choice, syntax, and grammar