I look forward to viewing it this evening.
And FWIW: It could motivate me to _buy_ ($20) rather than _rent ($4) [from Amazon] if I knew the respective portions that go to (your) production company rather than just to Amazon.
Yes, I get a cut of every sale and rental, thought I don't recall exactly how much. It's a very small income stream and I don't really need the money. So much as I appreciate the gesture, you should feel free to rent. Frankly, a good review is worth much more to me than a sale.
+1 on this. I’d much rather spend more money if I knew it directly supported the creator/maker/etc. I often do this with my purchases where I look for their direct website and purchase from there.
Article's author explains: "Unfortunately Alexa doesn’t have intelligence on the amount of visitors for this site." He goes on to describe additional data from informer.com, similarweb.com, etc - and to explain that the site actually strives not to be ranked well - as part of their business model.
>People simply aren't rational. It has been so hard for me to accept that.
You raise an important point: human irrationality is as real as climate change. And probably more challenging.
We might more quickly tackle climate change by simultaneously tackling human irrationality.
It's a shame that more of the best and brightest minds don't enter the (messy)fields of behavioral science - where progress is much less impressive of late than in technology IMHO.
> the real solution will be when consumers realize most of this IoT stuff is a gimmick for manufacturers to be able to sell you something...
For the sake us us all, I hope it's not the _only_ solution. This does not seem like the type of thing that the consumer marketplace ever "realizes". "Gimmick" or "bling" or "coolness." Praise or disparage such labels, huge portions of the consumer market wants what it wants at the moment; then it moves on mostly when the old one breaks or something else looks shinier.
Now _that_ IMHO is a problem in real need of a solution.
Although it appears to require little time/energy overhead to try out your project...
The lack of any information about privacy and security (not to mention evidence of commitment for the project to be around with my notes available to me for more than a few weeks) means I won't yet be trying it. Just FYI
The logic is similar to the old idiom: If you have to say you are a lady, you are not a lady. With dating, you have be sought after, and not chase after others. Trying to tell people that are lonely about this is, unfortunately, useless; the heart wants what it wants and we can do little to change it. For anyone out there that is male, I would suggest these posts (linked in article) to help alter the equation so that you are sought after and are not the seeker: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/03/31/the-3-ps-of-manhood... . Remember that being a real man is not the opposite of being a woman, but rather in not being a child.
One of the core symptoms/phenomena of major depression is anhedonia - the inability to experience pleasure.
It’s very difficult to imagine what that would be like - until you experience it. Hope you’ll seek out some effective help. It’s hard to dig out all by oneself.
"In 2015, an estimated 16.1 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. ...6.7% of U.S. adults."
Planned obsolescence. The greater the software/hardware complexity included - the more opportunity for obsolescence. For the manufacturer & retailer - a great component of their "business models." Not so great for consumers/environment.
I'd like to see some great technical minds attack _this_ technico-societal issue.
Stop letting people externalize the cost of disposable goods. If you close the loop and force the market to reflect this cost, you'll get behavior that avoids it.
This is a challenging issue to solve with legislation because you're adding costs somewhere. It's hard to get voter support for policies that pressure consumers, and harder to get politicians to support policies that challenge industry.
To solve it from within the market itself, you'd need a corporation to leave lots of money on the table by producing longer-lasting goods at price points competitive with cheapo brands. Inventive business models can help with this, but ultimately you either eat the cost of producing better goods for the same price or you make some scientific breakthroughs.
