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Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

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There's a strong correlation between IQ and life expectancy, possibly mostly genetic

Twin studies have tended to indicate that IQ is quite dependent on socio-economic status (thereby raising the question of what IQ is actually _measuring_, but anyway...). Socio-economic status is also highly relevant to life expectancy.

My understanding was twin studies typically show a .70 or so genetic component. What studies are you looking at?

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

#42
I'm sure I've something similar come up a few times recently, but never with any source discussing the health insurance plans that supposedly collect this data.

Has anyone come across anything on these insurance plans? I'm sure it's something many companies would love to do but I remain skeptical.

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

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You are in aussie and drink 7/11 coffee by choice? Turn in your Australia card mate...

Not everyone in Australia lives in Melbourne :) (just the best coffee drinkers)

Bingo, plus it’s the only place open other than Maccas at the time of day at a near enough perfect 10,000 step distance along an indirect route.

Doing it this way also takes care of the cheating concern, it’s a reward I can only get by physically doing the work.

Plus, it gives me a quiet time to watch everything including the Star Trek back catalogue.

And I don’t live in Melbourne so honestly brown water with a gram of sweet is a synonym for coffee.

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

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post #12

I bike 15+ miles a day but my work's discount program doesn't "support" biking. If I was into vigilante justice, I'd consider a solution like this too. But as it is, I'm quite content biking for my own sake rather than some pittance of a benefit.

are you more likely to sustain an injury than someone who is mostly idle?

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

#46
What you measure - you optimize. They measured cellphone shaking. They got optimized cellphone shaking.

I will also share another famous quotation of mine which I intend to eventually get tattooed somewhere (when I can figure out how to make it look good.. I have no tattoos): "Make game of that which makes as much as thee." - from The Rubiyat by Omar Khayaam.

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

#47

I did something similar in college. A company paid cash for installing software that displayed ads on the bottom of your monitor. It qualified your ad viewing activity based on mouse movement. At night I would open the software, wrap my mouse cord around an oscillating desk fan, then go to bed. Earned myself $50/month

I used this exact same method.

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

#49
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What did the Delhi residents themselves think about cobras? Were the natives OK with cobras running around and it was just the British that wanted to reduce the population? I'm curious because if everybody disliked wild cobras loose in the city I'd have expected the breeders to kill their stock when the bounty ended, not free it.

Why would you expect that in a world where people dump hazardous waste into rivers to save money?

> a world where people dump hazardous waste into rivers to save money

That mostly comes down to insufficient education, greed and lack of immediate consequences.

Letting a live snake roam free is entirely different in that an uneducated man would understand the risk, there is no upside and there is a possibility for immediate consequence.

Re: Smartphone cradle used to cheat “10k steps/day” health insurance discounts

#50

This would presumably work as long as your insurance provider doesn't have access to your location or any other means of figuring out that your exercise routine is odd.

What the world needs is an app that enables our kind to hire some peon to walk around with our phones. Where do I send my YC application?
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