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You are weirdly offbase. Their most popular product, the Versa, is a connected smartwatch.

It is absolutely about the brand. Fitbit sells like hotcakes despite that their product is remarkably bad compared to others. (The versa is rather badly rated.)

The story here is Google buying them, throwing WearOS on them/a google watch with Fitbit branding, and EOLing the entire Fitbit lineup.
It's better to call it self-publishing, not vanity press (a gatekeeping term).
>30% cheaper any other comparable option

I have a problem with this - the prices you list are much higher than comparable offerings from the national chains. Maybe that's because your pricing is more transparent? If so, you should bake the user's drive-away pricing right into the marketing of the page and compare against "the other guys". Or have a cost calculator that shows how much they would be saving.

You have a super-interesting value prop, but none of it is really available on the site. Even a dorky "how it works" on the home page would be nice.
1. You should file issues against Ember's docs! We have different experiences of it for sure. Even just as experience reports, I know the folks who work on it would love that.

2. The Ember TS stuff is in need of an update—desperately—as are my (several-years-old-now!) blog posts. Unfortunately (unlike Apple) none of those of us who work on it get paid to do so at the moment – at all, including docs. I'd love it if you opened issues against the ember-cli-typescript repo about specific issues/confusions you've had.
Yeah, people have been saying that the Tether stuff is super shady and just waiting for the bubble to pop for the better part of 3 years. It's very much been an open secret.
I disagree; this website is awful. If you hijack the scroll event to do something like this, instead of just... letting me scroll, you're very much going to hell.
You are reading it wrong.
I encourage you to read through the OP first on why your suggestion (remove copy-modification entirely) is not reasonable.
What’s the max bitrate for recent bluetooth standards? I hate the idea of layering compression on top of compression. I just haven’t found anything that compares to a modest pair of cans with any kind of okay DAC/amplifier.
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What's killing me is the doublespeak. "We must be eco friendly ! we must save the world ! climate change bad ! look at our renewable energy data centers ! yay !" and then they ship you products that are either unfixable or you need to replace half the product to change the broken part.
As explained in the post, you have to bite off very high levels of counterparty risk to short. Cryptocurrency exchanges die in something like 20% of exchange-years, and your estimate of an exchange dying _contingent on me being right_ should be biased towards the high side if they are exposed to the risks of using tether.

This is a subplot of the Big Short, and cost several groups of the protagonists a lot of money: they were so right about their prediction regarding the housing market that e.g. the banks who had brokered their swaps might have gone under, which would have impeded their ability to get paid. (There are several variants of the same thing discussed; the book is marginally clearer than the movie about them.)
Like the Palm Pilot, Fitbit was a great idea in its time, but there are many competitors today that are better built and better supported. For example, Samsung makes a fitness bracelet that Consumer Reports rates as the best of breed, though it's expensive.

After an unsuccessful foray into Android watches a few years ago, I finally broke down and got a $15 remaindered Fitbit Flex on Ebay. It was advertised as "new/other", but the battery is obviously shot and doesn't hold a charge longer than a day or two, so they refunded my money.

But I still wear it occasionally, to understand the user experience, despite the inconvenience of needing to charge it every day. It's a clever design and does one thing pretty well -- recording your motion and sync'ing to your phone when in Bluetooth range.

For a while I toyed with investing more in a new Fitbit that would capture heart rate, but given how much better Apple watches are both in build quality and likelihood of remaining in business, I think I'll just hold out for one of those, for when I switch from Android to an iPhone 11 or 12 next autumn.

Though, Google might reinvigorate Fitbit, who knows. But Google also shelves products with distressing frequency so it might be a meaningless acquisition. Fitness trackers have become a commodity, with a few high end quality offerings from Samsung and others, Fitbit struggling to retain its market leader status, and dozens of Chinese knock-offs in the $8-$20 range that are mediocre but the price is right.
Given that your EOL'd Pebble currently uses servers maintained by an independent nonprofit using an open source stack, it's about as far from Google's influence as anything can be.
I thought this was satire but because the return on invested time is quite low.

If you're making less than $300 a month, it may make sense to just away the product for free.
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You can exchange your bank savings account for dollars (or Euro, or whatever).

Hundreds of millions of people do this every day around the world without issue, because this is a solved problem.
Microphone quality on most of the other offerings is atrocious.

That said I wish these things didn't have a microphone. People tend to shout into them.
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Came here to say the exact same thing. I love my Bose NC700s... My only complain is that they are a bit heavy...
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For me a much better solution would be to get content out of the hands of profit-seeking companies.
Cryptocurrencies are a religion. I find the idea that anyone would want to hold a large amount of any currency idle for a long period of time baffling. Yet this is the premise that so many people who are speculating in cryptocurrency "investments" have bought into. Then you add on top of that terrible user experience, slow transaction times, and lack of any theft protection and I don't understand why any sane person doesn't just bail on the idea entirely.
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I personally exited because I wanted to just read about them rather than watching a movie in web page form.
While we are innovating in this space, perhaps it's time to address IATA's PNR (passenger Name record) Standard that is used by Sabre and Amadeus. Plenty of privacy issues in that old system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record#Privac...
> writing the authors of a website to change it

Has this ever worked?

> each website provides you a content under a certain conditions

They just send me HTML when I make HTTP requests even though I haven't seen, read much less agreed to any terms.

> the browser is not here to let you "steal" every content while absolutely ignoring the conditions.

The browser runs on the user's machine. It exists to serve the user, not to enforce "give us access to everything as payment, take it or leave it" non-negotiable terms.

And that's how things should be.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-n...
Someone believes the active cancelling itself does reduce the music quality due to the fact that there is no earphone able to cancel environment noise 100% perfect.

It always leave some here and affect music quality.

Although I think that is fine enough for me that my main purpose is to block the environment noise.
Every once in a while I think to myself, "I have a problem with OSX, I think I'll try to automate it with JavaScript for Automation (JXA)..." You know the rest.

The astounding lack of documentation is almost amusing. It becomes an adventure of trying to convert old AppleScript examples into JS, spelunking into GitHub and StackOverflow and general trial and error until I get something to work.

All this said, I'd rather have functionality without documentation, than the extreme of not launching an API without proper docs.

The solution of course - though Apple would never do this as it's not in their DNA - is to let devs add to their docs like PHP does. I'd be happy to add back a few examples to their site once I figured things out if that option was available to me, but right now there's really no central place for this besides random forums or starting my own repo.
I continue using iPhones only because Android seems so much worse. Text messages in various character sets work fine on my iPhone, but Android users still get garbage if I include a Cyrillic snippet. блять!
Sometime in iOS 12, Safari was tooled to use the ARKit. I was using this to visualize the size of the iPad Pro a while ago.
Even at my level of play, being able to stick XI (or its equivalents) onto a triple-slot with a second X??? word on the other axis is maybe 3% of the game.

Success comes from astute tile-balancing and relentless pursuit of bingos. Which means that people already are using the strategy you want, and are getting compensated appropriately for it under the current rules.
Did you come into aolserver via Philip greenspun and arsdigita like so many folks?
I've been wearing an Apple Watch since it launched in 2015.
The activity tracking and workout metrics are useful for keeping track of how active I am. It's not life changing.

The heart rate monitoring has been incredibly useful for me. Over the last year, I've had 2-3 instances where my heart rate got rather high while sedentary. Those moments were times when I was having panic attacks. I could feel my heart racing, my thoughts were spiraling, and I knew something was wrong. When this happens, the Apple Watch notified me that my heart rate was irregular. I consulted my primary doctor about this, showed him the graphs and explained the stressful situations, and he helped get me in contact with someone who could better help me to deal with this.

I know it's a minor thing, but it made a big difference and got me talking with the right kinds of medical professionals for an issue I was seemingly avoiding. Yea, it took almost 4 years of wearing this device, but it's made a difference.
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If you thought Google knew a lot about you before...

There are massive potential benefits to mass medical data collection and analysis. From early detection and prevention of epidemics to individualized, detailed, precise medical advice (e.g. you, specifically, might be fine eating lots of fat, but have an obscure risk factor involving, say, olives or almonds or something.)

To me it seems clearly insane to give that much power to such a relatively unaccountable entity.

There's a competitor to Fitbit and one thing coming down their pipeline can detect blood alcohol level. They are about to enter a market in a staunchly Muslim nation. See the potential for problems?
If you look at it through the lens of cost selling weapons to saudi arabia and burning fossil fuel is somewhere on the top of the list too.
I would suggest thinking more along the lines of Kafka/Kinesis/et cetera. ESBs are often not persistent and as a result not available for reprocessing against new use cases or with fixed code.
You could probably say the same about Stripe when they just launched. Authorize.net was doing billions in revenue and stripe just re-invented them with a better suite of APIs.
Does it really require access to a server, if you're just synching it to one phone?
I love Fitbit. I dont want another brand to be destroyed.
People love to say this but it’s simply wrong. You can believe something is actually worth anything but not believe the market will realize this over a given time period.

E.g. a time traveler might see tether go to $0 in the year 2025. But if he is stuck in the year 2019... shorting it in the short term is clearly a dumb idea. Betting that you can have a chair when the music stops is similarly dumb to to betting you can guess when the music stops altogether. Both fools know the music will stop eventually. Both will likely lose.
Is there some type of battery technology out there that would be better? The batteries are half the product.
Not only that, despite the extreme technical limitations underpinning the device, they built a dev environment that was a joy to use, and an API that was intuitive and powerful, supported by great documentation. Pebble really was something special.
Pedestrians and runners don't stop at stop signs and it doesn't seem like a problem, so it seems clear to me that "everyone is required to stop at stop signs all the time" is not the only workable legal solution here.

In Oregon we just passed a law that lets cyclists treat stop signs as yield signs. I ride a bike as my main form of transportation and additional visibility and low speed of bikes makes this a no-brainer--it's quite obvious whether cars or pedestrians are approaching as you approach a stop sign.
Sorry, looking for context, where is this quote from? Not finding it in the article.
I could imagine if your ISP has some big NAT plant that’s overloaded, it would cause connection problems with traffic getting congested at the NAT devices.
Ah nooo please. Anyone but google. I love my Fitbit charge 3 and was thinking about replacing my Fitbit scale because my original model just died after 6 years. If google is going to buy Fitbit then I’m out.
People complain the Pro moniker is losing meaning on a MBP - does it mean anything here?
Same. It was glorious for 2 years. Now going on ~5 years remote it's lonely and isolating. I can go anywhere... but where?
If the credit card used to book the car offers what's called a "Car Rental Collision Damage Waiver" then they'd cover the deductible for you.

We're currently renegotiating our insurance product, so hopefully we'll be able to bring the deductible down to $500. We're also most likely going to offer an add-on option to reduce the deductible to $0.
> According to the provisions, the country encourages the research, academic exchanges, conversion of academic achievements and application of the technologies of commercial cryptography, but the scientific research, production, sales, service and import and export of it must not harm the state security and public interests or other people's rights and interests.

> Moreover, those who sell or provide commercial cryptography products and services that are not examined or authenticated or fail either procedure will also be warned, fined or have their illicit gains confiscated.

Good times ahead. I'm going to be a criminal very soon.
Ah:

> The metro.co.uk code inserts an off-screen-positioned element with the disclaimer into the selection range, and you could just listen for selectionchange and/or mouse drag and/or keypress events to detect selection changes, and add/remove such an element based on those events.

Well, shit.
I've tried all kinds of strategies.

A simple approach is to just pull the trigger quickly on whatever has a million 5 star reviews and looks acceptable and is cheap. This feels environmentally offensive. Throwing away something that 99% works with one broken part. I feel sick when I have to do this.

Another approach is to try to get something expensive but durable and fixable. Unfortunately we live in a crappy future where nobody has any pride anymore and nothing's built to last decades. I have a 30 year old jigsaw I got from my grandfather and I frickin' love it.
I don't really get what Fitbit offers to Google...seems like they could easily build from scratch what Fitbit currently offers. And the Fitbit brand doesn't seem particularly strong right now...
It does fill a need, and no one expects returns from it, but it most likely is fractionally reserved by btc. This means that if the price of btc drops too low and too many people cash out then it's over, because each tether cashed out will mean more and more btc are required.
The job of fireman is also extremely hard to get in the US, too, because there is 100% nepotism. You have to be related to a fireman to become a fireman. You can become a volunteer or part-time paid fireman in some areas, but the full time roles require connections. I have lived in three states, it's been the same in each state. The US South is the worst as far as nepotism goes. If you're not from a southern state, it is very difficult to practice law there as well. There are tight controls on all kinds of things that you wouldn't expect.

I really don't wish to create a firestorm on here, but your odds of becoming a billionaire in the US are not very good unless you are well aligned with certain factions. Which factions those are I will not say because I will just get accused and the conversation will die. Be that as it may, it does not change the reality that any random individual can't just work hard and attain great wealth, moderate wealth yes, great wealth, no.
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We already went through the "why buy an X whose batteries can't be replaced" when the iPhone showed up. Same reasoning: between smaller size, greater capacity, less breakage, and wanting a reason to buy the new model ~2 years hence, most are happy to replace devices over dead fixed batteries.

I'm on conference calls >4 hours daily. Wore out my AirPods series 1 set, bought a replacement series 2 (wireless charging) set a couple months ago, no question would have ordered the Pro today if not having just bought the series 2.

Compact convenience has its own value.
There are some features of AirPods that are only available on Apple devices. Off the top of my head those are:

- Easy Pairing (if you just open the case next to an iphone, a dialog box comes up where you can just tap 'pair' and you're done)

- Automatic Pause (if you remove an ear, it pauses it)

- Reassign touch gestures

- Audio Sharing

- Ability to choose which ear's microphone you wish to use

- Lossless audio quality
Surprised you can wear those things that long. I've found my iPhone or MBP speaker have better noise reduction than the AirPods, and they're not comfortable to have in for multiple hours at a time.

When I need to do this - I only wear one AirPods, and keep the other charged in the case. Mic quality seems improved also with only 1 AirPods.
It made it difficult for me to read the content, and lagged/stuttered on my Macbook Pro. Not to mention taking up a whole screen for a single marketing sentence is obnoxious.

As someone who buys a lot of "pro" labeled audio gear, the only thing I care about is a bullet point list of specs. I've seen enough snake oil to ignore marketing materials for consumer audio products. But I get why Apple doesn't do that off the bat, because they're not trying to sell these to people like me.
And higher premiums because they can detect some anomaly in your heart rhythm. Oh sorry we can't insure you because Google sold us your fitbit info and you have a preexisting condition you aren't aware of.
There is strong demand for any kind of vehicle which allows transferring value digitally outside of the traditional banking system.

Crypto supporters have been saying this for a decade, but outside of money laundering, drug sales, and hodle profiteering, no such demand has been shown to exist.

Of course the huge demand has been spotted by many others and now there are loads of these "stablecoins". Some are more regulated and might take quickly over if feds decide to stop tether.

If the "feds" go after tether, they will also go after the alternative stablecoins.
Failure is also normal, and common - and frankly every healthy adult needs to learn how to cope with failure.

Modern childhood seems to go out of its way to isolate children from feelings of failure and learning healthy coping mechanisms thereof.

With this in mind, its probably helpful to learn the sting of failure earlier rather than later in your career.
>cost of context switch

Page 135.

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What makes me mad about the Sony headphones: they can’t be used as a microphone when connected via a cable.
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A failure is a failure, but it can also be a learning experience. I was once forced into a failure because despite my protests my employer sold a solution that was no longer vendor supported. The sales person didn't want to hear it, the business owner didn't want to hear it. They just wanted to make the sale. By the time I spent months trying to fix what couldn't be fixed the former marine business owner gave me some "come back with your shield or on it" speech to go out and fix the problem or else. I tried to fix the problem but couldn't and chose or else, i.e. I quit.

I learned to document everything in writing so that I have a paper trail for later. Fortunately it didn't come to a lawsuit from the unhappy customer but it got close. Having everything documented so it was 100% clear I never wanted to sell the system and spent scads of time trying to fix it anyway, not to mention communication from the vendor saying "It work won't and we told you it won't work" would have made life much easier for me if it came to discovery.
I have the same issue with my Sony's. Definitely a pain in the ass, especially when my mac is folded up and sleeping in my backpack and the headphones still connect to it.
I'm in the exact same boat. The AirPods just fit perfectly like no other pair before but for most of my friends it's the opposite.

I'm intrigued how the AirPods Pro will fit. We will see I guess.
I've had the opposite experience. I've bought each gen of the FitBit. I never found the new version compelling enough to buy immediately (but that's generally how I feel about phones and computers, too). I think gen 1 had the strap break after a few years (it was annoyingly wasn't replaceable). Gen 2 did suddenly just die after a few years. In both cases the newer version had been out for awhile and competitors didn't look too compelling. Each upgrade was nice, too.

I did have a charging issue, but it was because I left the charger plugged in inside the bathroom. I guess the steam from showers corroded the charging posts causing them eventually to no longer make contact with the watch. I bought a few replacements from Amazon for <$20 total and started unplugging it when it wasn't charging and I haven't had the issue in years.
Location tracking for better ad targeting if anyone is curious why they want fitbit
I think your argument is at best disingenuous. People leading startups know that people taking stock as a good part of their equity know that the vast majority of startup employees actually don't know how stock equity works in those circumstances. They don't like it when they ask for more cash comp, and it's to the benefit of the company founders that regular employees don't understand. It's also the case that people should educate them.

But like we make laws controlling how real estate loans work to protect people from shysters, we should probably have a lot more required documentation for companies that offer stock in pre-ipo companies.
Exactly this. When in-ear buds became the standard (90's?), the lifespan would be dictated by how quickly the cable frayed.

Step 1: superglue

Step 2: tape

Step 3: buy new ones
EU shouldn't have agreed to this, either leave now or never
Google gets fitness data attached to your profile for incredible insight into ad targeting and profiling. Seems incredibly valuable to me. The actual products themselves are a bit ancillary for google their real value is realized behind the scenes.
100% so annoying - going to have to throw out my fitbit stuff if this goes through
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Kudos to Apple; they made a site that manages to reliably crash Chrome on Android (if I scroll fairly fast to the bottom, right after the page becomes interactive).