4 ms·

There is probably a demographic that would get excited by the esthetics of this and can easily splurge and has a third or fourth vacation home in a dark sky loc

There is probably a demographic that would get excited by the esthetics of this and can easily splurge and has a third or fourth vacation home in a dark sky location. (Remember, the most valuable European company peddles luxury products) The fun question is what fraction of that demographic is on HN.

Wistar 3y ago
Heck, there may be some here who could afford their own JWT.
- tempodox 3y ago
  JSON Web Tokens are cheap.
- Wistar 3y ago
  Oops. JWST. Although the S seems superfluous.
wepple 3y ago
I’d like to believe very few are on HN This seems like something you’d buy if you’re later on in your finance/property/legal/medical career and have “made it” and are buying token toys that look nice and are lots of fun to use once in a while. Question for fun: what other products fit this category? Leica cameras? Ferraris?
- nologic01 3y ago
  that would be my hope too, but we might be taking the "hacker" component in HN too literally :-) > what other products fit this category? wristwatches and ball pens used to fit the bill but the digital age has not been kind. The algorithm to find more is: gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth association with shiny, noble, metals (aluminum, silver, gold) is essential. our collective psyche is traumatized by the long exposure to the bronze / iron age and all that corroding crap we had to endure you could extrapolate that luxury products are negative entropy markers: signaling that the bearer has the ability to manipulate society to strike a special thermodynamical contract with nature
  - wepple 3y ago
    > gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth I’m not sure if you just came up with that or it’s based on some kind of well known definition but wow, what a clear and succinct way to describe it. The interesting thing about wristwatches is that the digital age was indeed not kind to 90% of them, but in many ways the “quartz crisis” actually forced the survivors to pivot into being wealth signals. It’ll be interesting to see what the smart watch revolution does to the classic brands
xwdv 3y ago
In America a second vacation home in a dark sky area isn’t too expensive because of its remoteness. A person looking for ideas to entertain guests that isn’t another hot tub or fire pit or whatever might easily buy one of these to check out the stars and show pretty pictures of space. There are plenty of people with that kind of money here on HN.
- nologic01 3y ago
  in the scheme of things its indeed money well spent. astronomy always triggers introspection and "deep" discussions and that's something we could have more of

Wistar 3y ago

Heck, there may be some here who could afford their own JWT.

tempodox 3y ago
JSON Web Tokens are cheap.
Wistar 3y ago
Oops. JWST. Although the S seems superfluous.

wepple 3y ago

I’d like to believe very few are on HN This seems like something you’d buy if you’re later on in your finance/property/legal/medical career and have “made it” and are buying token toys that look nice and are lots of fun to use once in a while. Question for fun: what other products fit this category? Leica cameras? Ferraris?

nologic01 3y ago
that would be my hope too, but we might be taking the "hacker" component in HN too literally :-) > what other products fit this category? wristwatches and ball pens used to fit the bill but the digital age has not been kind. The algorithm to find more is: gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth association with shiny, noble, metals (aluminum, silver, gold) is essential. our collective psyche is traumatized by the long exposure to the bronze / iron age and all that corroding crap we had to endure you could extrapolate that luxury products are negative entropy markers: signaling that the bearer has the ability to manipulate society to strike a special thermodynamical contract with nature
- wepple 3y ago
  > gadget that can be luxurised (made more expensive without adding substantial new functionality) with the sole purpose of helping homo sapiens groups stratify according to status / wealth I’m not sure if you just came up with that or it’s based on some kind of well known definition but wow, what a clear and succinct way to describe it. The interesting thing about wristwatches is that the digital age was indeed not kind to 90% of them, but in many ways the “quartz crisis” actually forced the survivors to pivot into being wealth signals. It’ll be interesting to see what the smart watch revolution does to the classic brands

xwdv 3y ago

In America a second vacation home in a dark sky area isn’t too expensive because of its remoteness. A person looking for ideas to entertain guests that isn’t another hot tub or fire pit or whatever might easily buy one of these to check out the stars and show pretty pictures of space. There are plenty of people with that kind of money here on HN.

nologic01 3y ago
in the scheme of things its indeed money well spent. astronomy always triggers introspection and "deep" discussions and that's something we could have more of