{"id":40791,"date":"2014-01-13T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/correlation-is-not-causality-hi-tech-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-01-13T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:41:26","slug":"correlation-is-not-causality-hi-tech-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/correlation-is-not-causality-hi-tech-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Correlation Is Not Causality (Hi Tech Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Though my purchase of a Nest thermostat and Google's purchase of Nest for $3.2bn took place at roughly the same time, they're decision didn't affect mine, and (I presume) vice-versa. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Gizmodo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

That's no impulse buy.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Holy Crap: Google Just Bought Nest For $3.2 Billion In Cash<\/a>
\n Surprise! Google just announced it has acquired the home automation startup, Nest, for $3.2 billion dollars.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though my purchase of a Nest thermostat and Google's purchase of Nest for $3.2bn took place at roughly the same time, they're decision didn't affect mine, and (I presume) vice-versa. \u00a0 Reshared post from +Gizmodo That's no impulse buy.\ufeff Holy Crap: Google Just Bought Nest For $3.2 Billion In Cash Surprise! Google just announced it … Continue reading “Correlation Is Not Causality (Hi Tech Edition)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40806,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/more-on-the-google-nest-acquisition.html","url_meta":{"origin":40791,"position":0},"title":"More on the Google Nest acquisition","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Jan-14 7:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This all makes sense, and all sounds pretty cool.Reshared post from +Les Jenkins The battle for the home: Why Nest is really Google\u2019s new smart home division ellenmac11 Guess who's now the leader in the connected-home space? 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