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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by mixmastamyk on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:46PM (#19879575)
I know not getting up sounds like a good thing, but the logical conclusion to that are the couch potatoes shown in the movie Wall-E.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by weberc2 on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:47PM (#19879594)
If your only exercise is walking to the light switch you have bigger problems.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by mixmastamyk on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:17PM (#19879956)
It's cumulative.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by weberc2 on Friday May 10, 2019 @01:27PM (#19880088)
Turning off the lights is negligible to your overall health. Automating it (or not) will not affect your obesity or other health outcomes. There are lots of reasonable arguments against IoT switches; this is not one of them. Let's move on.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by dfrage on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:02PM (#19881120)
Just pumping the muscles in your legs will decrease the potential for blood clots forming in them, according to a recent HN topic.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by mixmastamyk on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:13PM (#19880589)
Assertions dressed as facts are not very useful either.
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Re:Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019 by weberc2 on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:39PM (#19881515)
You mean like:

> the logical conclusion to that are the couch potatoes shown in the movie Wall-E

?

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