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Ask HN: Why not have bottles with minimum drinking times to “compress” time?
For example, a Diet Coke bottle might ensure that it takes at least 30 minutes to finish the bottle. This could be done by stopping liquid flow temporarily whenever your drinking rate is too high.
Such a bottle would be ideal for 30 minute walks since time seems to go by more quickly whenever you are drinking something. So in a sense, such a bottle would reduce the time it takes to walk to your destination.
- h2odragon 4y agoYou ask a lot of questions that seem to boil down to "why do I have to think for myself," or "why doesn't society enforce a behavior." I wonder if you're doing Socratic provocation or advocacy.
- UmYeahNo 4y agoHave you looked at your HN Settings page? Even there, there are all sorts of settings that help you when your willpower lets you down. I don't know that a metered water bottle is the solution that comes to mind for me, but assistive tools to help moderate a weak willpower is a valid avenue for productization for feature enhancement. Unless, of course, you're specifically monetizing on breaking your customers willpower and upping the addiction factor.