How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers
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#2Here I am, a resident of Melbourne, Australia, where we never get interesting earthquakes, visiting SF for the first time (staying in Belmont) and they don’t even wake me for the earthquake they evidently put on for my benefit.
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#3Serious question:
I wonder if they can track how many people die per year and differentiate between type (car, earthquake etc.).
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#4Serious question: I wonder if they can track how many people die per year and differentiate between type (car, earthquake etc.).
That's not the point. Jawbone (and similar devices such as FitBits and Nike FuelBands) can detect whether the user is sleeping or not; this post asserts that the earthquake is the primary cause of the spike in sleep disruption at 3AM, which is a valid and supported hypothesis.
As far as I know, these devices cannot detect the cause of death.
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#7Am I the only one that's finding a bit upsetting the fact that a single overlooking identity could dispose of people's data like that? I know, I know: all the Up wearers have "enrolled" voluntarily, but I wonder if they really like to be part of a giant anonymous data science experiment.
If you can do this with the users' data, you can certainly do the same for more profit-related purposes.
Or maybe it's just me, sometimes I just can't ignore the scary within the scientifically cool.
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#8Here I am, a resident of Melbourne, Australia, where we never get interesting earthquakes, visiting SF for the first time (staying in Belmont) and they don’t even wake me for the earthquake they evidently put on for my benefit.
Hey fellow belmont buddy! Just curious, about how old is the building that you were in when the earthquake hit?
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#9Serious question: I wonder if they can track how many people die per year and differentiate between type (car, earthquake etc.).
That's not the point. Jawbone (and similar devices such as FitBits and Nike FuelBands) can detect whether the user is sleeping or not; this post asserts that the earthquake is the primary cause of the spike in sleep disruption at 3AM, which is a valid and supported hypothesis. As far as I know, these devices cannot detect the cause of death .
But the device detects movement doesn't it? Is it not able to detect seismic activity or any other force? So if a person was in a car accident or in an earthquake that would be something that can be measured.
There are now devices that can tell what exercise you are doing just by being on your wrist.
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#10Who else finds this as creepy as hell.