#designed to fail

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It’s as if they were designed to fail.

(JSA Volume 2 #14)

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France Is Fighting to Save Your iPhone From an Early Death

With iPhones getting harder and more expensive to repair, French prosecutors have launched an investigation into the scourge of planned obso

(Hoorah, at one Government on this planet is fighting against Planned Obsolescence).

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Designed to Fail: How Planned Obsolescence is DESTROYING OUR PLANET

Planned obsolescence is when a company designs a product to fail so that you end up buying it over and over again.  Sometimes they use cheap materials.   Sometimes they refuse to service their products beyond a couple of years.  Either way, you end up spending a lot of money on something that should higher quality and upgradeable!  The result?  Tons of waste in our landfills and tons of wasted money!

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Designed to Fail: How Planned Obsolescence is DESTROYING OUR PLANET

Planned obsolescence is when a company designs a product to fail so that you end up buying it over and over again.  Sometimes they use cheap materials.   Sometimes they refuse to service their products beyond a couple of years.  Either way, you end up spending a lot of money on something that should higher quality and upgradeable!  The result?  Tons of waste in our landfills and tons of wasted money!

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Hey, a tip if you got yourself Bose earphones for sensory issues but don't have to money to maintain designed-to-fail products

So in Bose headphones two pieces of fabric aren't sewn together, they're glued.

Which means, that once the material starts to flake, this will happen at some point:

[picture is Bose headphones with the filling of one earmuff exposed and pieces of earmuff lining flaked off. the muff is partially sewn with a needle and thread also depicted]

Now, I don't care about looks, but I *do* care about function.

So, with some needle and thread I fixed the exposed muff and reinforced the other muff.

Just grab a short, thin needle try to show through the folded pieces of fabric. (So through 4 layers)

[pictured is the muff with the exposed padding. A threaded needle is seen piecing the two pieces of fabric that need to be reattached. the fabric is folded at about 3mm to the edge.]

Then, go all the way around until you meet your ends. Tie the ends with your favourite solid double knot and optionally tuck the thread in.

Tada! you're good to go for a solid while! I think I'll also make some removable covers for the muffs.

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$21.8 million in ObamaCare tax credits awarded to individuals who were not eligible to receive them

$21.8 million in ObamaCare tax credits awarded to individuals who were not eligible to receive them

From Fox News: The Affordable Care Act exchanges awarded $21.8 million in advance premium tax credits to individuals who were not eligible to receive them, according to an audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Advance premium tax credits are awarded to those with low to moderate income to help rein in the cost of purchasing health care insurance on the exchanges. The…

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Designed To Fail: Why Many Tests Give You Meaningless Results

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You built out your new ad copy, tested out a bidding strategy, measured web and store sales to measure the online to offline effect; however, in the end you got the worst outcome possible – inconclusive results.

A negative result would have been better; at least you would have known that your hypothesis was wrong or that your strategy was not effective. But an inconclusive result tells you nothing, which can be incredibly frustrating as a marketer.

There are many reasons why a well-designed test might fail. For example, seasonal effects might be ignored, the dataset might be too small or the marketplace might change during the test.

However, a very common error in test design is not accounting for volatility – fluctuations in performance due to unpredictable events in the marketplace.

In this post, I shall delve into the issue of volatility, how it might lead to a test with inconclusive results and finally, how you can mitigate its effect on your test.

To understand the issue better, let us assume that you want to test the hypothesis that online SEM spending leads to offline store sales. To test this hypothesis, you ramp up your online budgets in increments every week.

Your plan is to run the test for 5 weeks, collect the data, do a regression analysis and answer the question, “What does one dollar spent online lead to in offline sales?”.  Now let us, put some real numbers in this thought experiment.

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