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Thom - demand forces necessity. We will revisit this in a few years I am sure, and things are going to be different.
And the watch does change things because pulling out your phone, unlocking your phone, and opening an app to unlock your door is scrub tier. Just being able to get close with your hand and it opens is the future.
Delusions don't create reality. The taking out the phone isn't the issue. Never has been. You can look at the Lockitron user complaints and none of them are about taking out the phone. All of their complaints are about the devices not working. The same goes with competing products. Wearables will make it more convenient but it doesn't solve the basic issues about the locking devices themselves not working. Might the Apple watch cause a surge of demand? Sure. But that's all going to be retrofit demand. And unless the players in that space get much better, at an absurdly more rapid pace then that demand will fizzle out due to complaints.
And Lockitron has kind of poisoned the well for VCs in that space. They've had to pivot and they went from media darling to a pariah. So new startups to take their place are gonna have a higher hurdle to jump. It's possible someone like Assa Abloy might try to enter that space but then it makes the cost problem even worse. They have the experience to build a product that works but they don't know what the word cheap means. You'd be talking locksets in the $300 range on the very low end verses $20 for a traditional lock. And you're talking about having to replace the batteries every four weeks.
I'm not for or against wearables. I'm wait and see. But it's not going to create the demand for wireless locksets that you're proclaiming. Because the wireless lockset companies will get in their own damn way. Will it work for cars? Sure. Is it likely to have wide adoption there? Yep. Will there be other uses? Sure. But it doesn't make the battery/cost issue go away. Mass production can help with cost but the battery issue requires serious engineering work.
the "no garage" thing sucks, but it looks like there is plenty of room to add one on
that would be stretching my price range, though
would need to be making fat stacks for that one
That house is gigantic. I wouldn't even know what to do with that much space.
it's smaller than the house i live in now
2100 square feet sounds like a lot until you've got grown-up furniture and dogs and are thinking about a baby and etc
2100 sqft was my parents second house and the first one I really remember. It wasn't that big but because most of it was a huge open center room it felt bigger than it was.
The house I spent most of middle and high school in was 3200 sq ft. Again huge open plan so it felt bigger than it was.
But yeah when you have dogs, furniture and a family what seems way too large or gigantic isn't huge at all.
I seriously question how many network violations actually occur because of people who keep a sticky note on their person.
I think this is the IT person version of "Oh it's totally you're fault for having antibiotics prescribed that caused all the drug resistant bacteria it's totally not the fault of agribusiness".
doctors and farmers aren't the really dealing with the same drug resistant bacteria are they now
but anyway
super few?
I mean the overlap of muggers and industrial spies is not huge
Yes they are.
There are really a limited number of antibiotics and since bacteria can transfer immunity to other bacteria via conjugation (plasmid transfer, interspecies even) agriculture is the #1 culprit.
There's a reason locales near lots of animal agriculture have higher rates of resistant bacteria showing up in hospital patients.
Hell it doesn't even need to do that.
pneumococcus is pneumococcus and staphylococcus is staphylococcus.
MRSA does not really give a fuck if you're a cow or a human.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
oh man if Portland actually gets a job market it is gonna gentrify so fast
isn't already getting crazy expensive? Or is that Seattle?
Not as bad as seattle, but yeah. It's already not cheap.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I seriously question how many network violations actually occur because of people who keep a sticky note on their person.
I think this is the IT person version of "Oh it's totally you're fault for having antibiotics prescribed that caused all the drug resistant bacteria it's totally not the fault of agribusiness".
doctors and farmers aren't the really dealing with the same drug resistant bacteria are they now
but anyway
super few?
I mean the overlap of muggers and industrial spies is not huge
Yes they are.
There are really a limited number of antibiotics and since bacteria can transfer immunity to other bacteria via conjugation (plasmid transfer, interspecies even) agriculture is the #1 culprit.
There's a reason locales near lots of animal agriculture have higher rates of resistant bacteria showing up in hospital patients.
Hell it doesn't even need to do that.
pneumococcus is pneumococcus and staphylococcus is staphylococcus.
MRSA does not really give a fuck if you're a cow or a human.
oh man if Portland actually gets a job market it is gonna gentrify so fast
isn't already getting crazy expensive? Or is that Seattle?
Seattle is crazy expensive. Not San Fransico crazy but pretty nuts. Right now Portland is merely expensive. Because it's economy is based on riding a bicycle with no tires past a broken crate. But they will learn very quickly what Expensive means if some high paying tech jobs move in.
I seriously question how many network violations actually occur because of people who keep a sticky note on their person.
I think this is the IT person version of "Oh it's totally you're fault for having antibiotics prescribed that caused all the drug resistant bacteria it's totally not the fault of agribusiness".
doctors and farmers aren't the really dealing with the same drug resistant bacteria are they now
but anyway
super few?
I mean the overlap of muggers and industrial spies is not huge
Yes they are.
There are really a limited number of antibiotics and since bacteria can transfer immunity to other bacteria via conjugation (plasmid transfer, interspecies even) agriculture is the #1 culprit.
There's a reason locales near lots of animal agriculture have higher rates of resistant bacteria showing up in hospital patients.
Hell it doesn't even need to do that.
pneumococcus is pneumococcus and staphylococcus is staphylococcus.
MRSA does not really give a fuck if you're a cow or a human.
i could dig a small house if the lady didn't have so much stuff
Yeah, as much as I'd like a small house I'd also like to have a workshop, and an office, and a game room, and a dungeon, and a pool, and a big garage, and spacious kitchen, and a theater room.
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because you gotta trap the cow to kill it
*looks at shared 600 sqft apartment*
sigh...
Delusions don't create reality. The taking out the phone isn't the issue. Never has been. You can look at the Lockitron user complaints and none of them are about taking out the phone. All of their complaints are about the devices not working. The same goes with competing products. Wearables will make it more convenient but it doesn't solve the basic issues about the locking devices themselves not working. Might the Apple watch cause a surge of demand? Sure. But that's all going to be retrofit demand. And unless the players in that space get much better, at an absurdly more rapid pace then that demand will fizzle out due to complaints.
And Lockitron has kind of poisoned the well for VCs in that space. They've had to pivot and they went from media darling to a pariah. So new startups to take their place are gonna have a higher hurdle to jump. It's possible someone like Assa Abloy might try to enter that space but then it makes the cost problem even worse. They have the experience to build a product that works but they don't know what the word cheap means. You'd be talking locksets in the $300 range on the very low end verses $20 for a traditional lock. And you're talking about having to replace the batteries every four weeks.
I'm not for or against wearables. I'm wait and see. But it's not going to create the demand for wireless locksets that you're proclaiming. Because the wireless lockset companies will get in their own damn way. Will it work for cars? Sure. Is it likely to have wide adoption there? Yep. Will there be other uses? Sure. But it doesn't make the battery/cost issue go away. Mass production can help with cost but the battery issue requires serious engineering work.
oh man if Portland actually gets a job market it is gonna gentrify so fast
AM I BEING DETAINED
2100 sqft was my parents second house and the first one I really remember. It wasn't that big but because most of it was a huge open center room it felt bigger than it was.
The house I spent most of middle and high school in was 3200 sq ft. Again huge open plan so it felt bigger than it was.
But yeah when you have dogs, furniture and a family what seems way too large or gigantic isn't huge at all.
isn't already getting crazy expensive? Or is that Seattle?
You didn't know about bacterial conjugation?
You should look it up, it's fairly mind-blowing. I'm sure whoever first documented it got a Nobel prize.
But yeah, bactera with their sex pili all transfering DNA to other bacteria. It's madness.
Hell it doesn't even need to do that.
pneumococcus is pneumococcus and staphylococcus is staphylococcus.
MRSA does not really give a fuck if you're a cow or a human.
what i am saying is never grow up
Not as bad as seattle, but yeah. It's already not cheap.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
i'm so sorry
you guys
Some bacteria are more picky about hosts.
Some are really not picky at all.
Home of the world famous jelly factory?
contrary to what sovereign citizens say, this doesn't actually get you away from the cop
all it does is piss him or her off
Seattle is crazy expensive. Not San Fransico crazy but pretty nuts. Right now Portland is merely expensive. Because it's economy is based on riding a bicycle with no tires past a broken crate. But they will learn very quickly what Expensive means if some high paying tech jobs move in.
it already seems more expensive (at least to me) than it should be
its basically nike and intel and thats it for big companies, as far as I can tell
some are like
if it doesn't have four stars
and others are like
just wear flip-flops in the communal shower
The best is the guest room no one ever goes in that you've turned into storage.
But then you need a place for a friend to crash or someone's visiting and you need to find a place for a room full of shit.
And Cincinnati, too...
Probably for something embarrassing like Oktoberfest.
from some light searching, it seems that 3-4 bedrooms are 350-550 or so
downpayment-chan pls ;_;
Didn't work out well for the cow, either.
Microbial porn, hide your children
Cinci has some good stuff
german-inspired food culture, for one
also, if you're near Cincinnati, you're like a 40 minute drive from the Creationist Museum
if I could find a 3-4 bedroom for less than $500k around here I would throw down on it so hard
Such is the benefit of narrating the tales of Sodor.
Yeah, as much as I'd like a small house I'd also like to have a workshop, and an office, and a game room, and a dungeon, and a pool, and a big garage, and spacious kitchen, and a theater room.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Plus, it would be embarrassing to find out some coworkers were Creationists.
The museum in Cincinnati is nice.
On average, this thread was careening by at warp 3.5
@AManFromEarth will create the new thread
@Thomamelas is backup