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Interesting idea. Bad execution.

There is NO way that performance should be so bad given current load.

Some of the questions are frustrating. For instance question #4 is "YOU SAVE AN OLD LADY'S LIFE. IN GRATITUDE SHE GIVES YOU $100,000. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH MOST OF IT?" The obvious answer for me is, "Save it." But all possible answers are ways to spend it or give it away. I chose "Move to a nicer neighborhood", but that really is NOT who I am...




If you save into a bank account, your business is "Lend banks money".


I suspect at each POST request the website is attempting to match (and filter) against all existing results.


They state otherwise - "verification takes place a few days from now". And filtering against 20k results should be instant anyway.


Maybe the server is a single nodejs instance (or something single-threaded). So requests are queued and take longer.


Yeah, or options like "Pay my debts".




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