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		dpark 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go r... I wasn’t talking about the hypothetical certification. I was talking about this: > I think the group of people who would buy something with "smart" in the name and also really care about reliability is pretty small.

recursive 5 days ago [–]

Oh yes, that's true. A lot of people probably end up with smart stuff who might rather have dumb things.

dpark 5 days ago | [–]

Definitely. I bought a smart tv because I wanted an OLED and at the time there were no dumb OLED tvs. I imagine that’s still the case.

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