You’re lucky. Mine died and won’t hold a charge. The replacement fell off my clothes all of the time. After finally getting lost, its replacement had the battery die after a short time.

Bingo. I’m crazy active, I run a pet store warehouse that’s attached to the company’s biggest store, of which I am a keyholder, take lengthy day hikes, that kine of thing. I always wanted a tracker and when I preordered my (long ago returned and deeply, deeply missed) Note 7, I jumped at the chance to get the gear fit…

I feel like half the problem (for the company) with Fitbit is a lack of planned obsolescence. I bought a Fitbit One 4 years ago and have zero incentive to upgrade it as it still works like the day I got it and I still get access to their fantastic app by virtue of having bought one. I don’t like having stuff on my…

I think the underlying point is that trackers are great for people who are already inclined to track (IE - Probably healthy/active already)... But they don’t actually promote lifestyle changes.

I don’t get all the fitness tracker hate. Unless I’m mistaken, just about every fitness regimine recommends that you track your progress. Running, swimming, weight lifting, whatever, you’re supposed to keep a log of what you do, how much, and how long. All the fitbit ever tried to do was help accomplish that…

I think that Fitbit and similar devices had a narrow window to become smartwatches and they didn’t take advantage of that. Once they got on everyone’s wrist, they should have immediately expanded to tell time, play music and integrate with cellphones, which would have undercut Apple and Android. But instead, they…

Fitness trackers are exactly that, trackers. If the underlying desire to change your lifestyle isn’t already there then no amount of graphs and notifications is going to change that. I use the activity app on my watch, but only as a reference point. Can I exercise just 1 second longer than yesterday or go just a tad…

True, however currently it is way more cost effective to simply buy seeds for each crop. Hardly any agricultural farmers replant seeds from a previous crop even if they pay a licensing fee to reuse them. Farmers buy GM seeds because of its beneficial value in both cost and resource use.

It’s not the cost of buying seeds that people are concerned about, it’s the fear of a monopoly.

Not only that, but current liscenses disallow replanting of seed anyway (which is necessary if you want companies to keep innovating new plant varieties). It seems like a PR move by MIT honestly. I’m also curious about the statement “making farmers dependent on the seed”. Monsanto will never be the sole seed provider.…

By creating crops that can’t naturally self-replicate, and by making farmers dependent upon these seeds, agriculture firms like Monsanto stand to make tremendous profits.

NPR had a piece on Stranger Things last week...the show’s creators seem especially impressed with Millie, saying that it’s as if they’re working with a 40-something actress and not a kid.

Dustin was my favorite; he was always pragmatic and level-headed. It was fun to see each kid have their own, very strong personalities. Instead of having someone’s character be “kid”, they were all fleshed-out, like actual kids are.

Yeah, that was the point where I was like “Ah geez. Guess there’s going to be a second season...”. Everything else like Elle’s box in the woods was kind of vague but Will barfing out slugs and teleporting is clearly something that is going to need to be resolved. I just hope the Duffer Brothers got an actual plan.…

It’s live on Amazon Prime and I just watched it.