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Integration with Domino's Pizza is a real win. If you're eating two to three deliveries a day, those few minutes of friction are costing you hours a year, never mind the overhead of the mental context switch. Buying this product is, in effect, adding quality years to your lifespan.

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Though surely not enough years to negate the effect of eating three Domino's deliveries per day.

I think that's the joke.

New Domino's tagline: "Any way you slice it, Domino's is a...killer app!"

Well, you're not wrong about it saving you time. Even if it's only a few seconds, why is that something to deride?

Sure, maybe paying $50 to save a few seconds isn't a choice most people would make, but it's not like that's all it can do.

But, it's not hard to see how this functionality can be extrapolated: One day you ask Alexa for items off Amazon and a drone drops them off on your doorstep.

Think about all the pieces involved in that: The hardware and software design of Echo/Alexa, Amazon's distribution network built out over years, FAA lobbying to get the drone flying.

If that doesn't impress you, nothing will.

I'm with you. When they launch, to demonstrate the functionality, they need some functions, which means partners. Obviously there are near infinite applications of "Alexa, ask X to do Y". Zapier and Iffft have made entire businesses out of a much more annoying way to do this.

I think its understood that "ordering pizza" is just polite conversation for "Alexa activate emergency toilet paper delivery" while you're sitting in the bathroom cursing whoever used up the TP without ordering more.

Based on loose and generous extrapolations of my current mindset, I will be very impressed.

my thoughts exactly. Reading this made me thing of the song "is that all there is".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAf7HcK10d0

I don't want to do more, I want to do less. Not more with less either, just less. ps Dominos is soul destroying!

At that point, you probably just want to go with the subscribe and save program...

Everytime I see that it reminds me of EQ's /pizza command.

But what about the years of life lost due to subsisting primarily on pizza? It's probably a wash.

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