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> The data showed Clorox which ZIP codes around the country had increases in fevers. No, all it did was show you wealthy areas where people buy stupid crap. T
by jbob2000 8y ago
> The data showed Clorox which ZIP codes around the country had increases in fevers.
No, all it did was show you wealthy areas where people buy stupid crap.
These are really stupid devices. I have the thermometer in my hand when I take the reading, I can just glance at it to see the reading, why do I need it to sync to my phone?
- 908087 8y agoSo that the manufacturer can extract additional money from your pocket by proxy after selling access to you to their "partners". "Log in with facebook to see your temperature" I wonder if there's a "share temperature on Facebook" button in the app?
- mschuster91 8y ago> I have the thermometer in my hand when I take the reading, I can just glance at it to see the reading, why do I need it to sync to my phone? For persons with an uterus, reading a thermometer can be used both for getting pregnant (=have sex on the day where a slight increase in vaginal temperature indicates that an egg is released) and for preventing pregnancies... and the latter case is where the phone sync comes in handy. The pregnancy-prevention apps work by profiling the dates and volumes of periods, plus sex drive, plus temperature, to determine a window in which unprotected sex is risky (IIRC, it's seven days prior to egg cell release + 1 or 2 days after).
- 908087 8y agoSyncing data to your phone doesn't require sending that data to a third party.
- gray_-_wolf 8y agoThat would be a nice world to live in you describe here...
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoWho doesn't need a REST API to convert units?
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoYou joke, but there's a ton of web devs who think this way.
- Fnoord 8y agoWe went to a gynaecologist to figure out what the best day was to get pregnant (ie. most fertile). Turns out with a different than standard monthly cycle, you gotta time it a bit different as well. Who'd have guessed? After that, it was a hit within a month. Now, our gynaecologist has to respect our privacy...
- AstralStorm 8y agoThe gynecologists are bound by doctor patient confidentiality. The smart thermometer company is not.
- zodPod 8y agoRight?! I've always wondered that about this smart stuff. Like the smart water bottle that counts how many bottles of water you've had. Can't you just keep a tally? Like you said, this stuff is just bullshit that rich people buy when they have nothing better to do with their money. I also really like your point about the data being skewed because of the price!