Elepsis

Has anyone found anything remotely comparable for Android? I'd love to have a Soulver or Numi analog on my phone. I don't even need it to sync with anything.

The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts.

Also, it's likely that your past experience is with the old OneDrive for Business client. Last year the normal OneDrive client learned to sync OneDrive for Business data, and reliability and performance improved quite a bit.

(I worked on OneDrive until last summer, but I don't currently work at Microsoft.)

Given the USD ~1.64 TRILLION in assets Mizuho had in 2014, presumably this claim is beyond insane? Is there some mechanism to look up SWIFT transaction volumes by bank?

Kazakh teenagers do from time to time write Russian or Kazakh in a very strange mix of latin letters, but most of them write in either Kazakh proper or in Russian (Cyrillic) since it has most of the letters of the Kazakh alphabet.

OneDrive supports version history for Office documents but not other file types.

I wrote two blog posts on this idea a few years ago, but alas no credible player has pursued documenting a standard protocol for this. Password managers are, probably pragmatically, writing custom scrapers for major sites instead.

The Atlantic actually remains about that cheap, particularly with their regular sales. I've never paid more than $1/issue. They, like many other magazines, seem to have moved to a model of doing whatever it takes to keep print circulation up, thereby being able to charge more for ads. They've also been significantly more successful with their web presence than a lot of their peer magazines, which also compensates for the low subscription cost.

In the spirit of taking surprising statements at face value, here are some examples.

- Having a kid? Now your whole extended family is available to give you help and advice, to babysit, to be there for you when you need them.

- Need a job? It's a lot easier to find one when you have a personal network in a place already.

- Something terrible happen in your life? You now have a built in set of folks to help you through it.

There's incredible value in having a large local support group. Yes, it's possible to compensate for the lack of it with friends, and those of us who have moved far from home tend to do that, but that's a pretty straightforward second best compared to being with family, people you've grown up with, etc.

While I agree that if no one paid for PreCheck they'd probably stop the program, I think you're making a follow-on assumption which is "and then the security theater would get better for everyone else."

What we're seeing with the hours-long lines right now is that this simply isn't true. The TSA has no particular incentive to reduce the number of hoops you have to jump through: if anything, a summer like this will probably increase their budget.

So, indeed: pay up for PreCheck and smile because they've given you the opportunity.

This just isn't true in any way. Uber once upon a time was a bidder on Here Maps, which provided most of Bing's mapping data, but they lost to a consortium of German car makers (BMW, Daimler, Audi): http://www.wsj.com/articles/bmw-daimler-audi-agree-to-buy-no...

Not that many people want to deal with "easy monthly payments." Which is why most small developers should be charging their subscriptions annually.

On the other hand, products that don't have subscription pricing are compelled to continue to add hot new features in a never-ending race of convincing their customers that they really should pay x dollars every 1-3 years for an upgrade.

That's not to mention that they have to deal with maintaining old versions of their products, and support costs that could easily exceed the LTV of a particular customer.

As a customer, I am often hesitant to shell out the big bucks for subscription software, especially because both Microsoft and Adobe have set up a pretty clear ceiling on what I consider to be worthwhile by charging $10/month for really really compelling product offerings (O365 Home for Microsoft, Photoshop & Lightroom for Adobe). So a "small"/less compelling app has to charge a good bit less for me to be willing to pay.

But in the long run, I'd rather pay, say, $20/year for a useful piece of software in perpetuity than $100 once every five years--because that way I always have the latest version and don't have to think about whether I really want to upgrade or not. And that aligns my incentives with those of the developer and reduces their support costs.

Over time, I imagine small software developers will figure out what a reasonable price is for subscriptions, and more software of any complexity will converge on this model. I, for one, don't especially mind.

Of course, Microsoft itself bought into many markets once upon a time. While Excel isn't one where that was the case, its sister app PowerPoint started as Microsoft's first major acquisition.

The point is, you can have that vision for a while, but eventually the market changes such that the threat (or opportunity) to your business isn't so direct to be obvious like Instagram was to Facebook.

It's also pretty clearly a joke, per the Zenefits reference.

I don't frequently wish the loss of a job upon other people, but I dearly hope everyone involved in producing that document was fired for it, because there is not an iota of substance in those pages.

I'm not aware of lead generators in other businesses (with the exception of mostly-unsuccessful Uber-for-x startups like Homejoy) that set the pricing for the services to be provided.

Do you have any examples?

Sounds like a recipe to have most of your cancellations be via chargeback.

You are starting from the inexplicable premise that these properties he rents out were somehow ill-gotten, and not the direct consequence of him saving significant amounts of his income while he worked a totally normal job and investing them intelligently in property.

And of course landlords (since you're obviously using rentier as a pejorative) DO provide a valuable service: housing to people who either value the flexibility of renting or don't have the finances to buy housing where they live.

Your apparent disagreement with the entire system of rental property around the world is certainly principled, but singling out Mr. Money Mustache as some kind of hypocrite for earning money off his investments is absurd on its face. Are you also opposed to people buying dividend-issuing stocks?

The active spam happening there right now is if anything a fabulous demonstration of just how terrible anonymous people on the internet tend to be, and how quickly potentially fun things can go to crap as a result.

It seems like you're suggesting that people are buying the small cans of Coke based on endorsements like this one, and then chugging three cans in one go to make up for the super-sized drink they'd otherwise have gotten.

What exactly is that assumption based on?

It's been abundantly demonstrated that smaller servings do help people follow through on efforts to reduce their food intake. I don't see any reason Coke should be different.

This is just mentioned as an aside in the article, but is this accurate?

"Even now, the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are effectively segregated, with almost all white children at private schools. Just nine per cent of pupils in the state system are white. Almost 90 per cent are on free lunches."

That statistic was totally shocking to me. Are there any other places in the U.S. where there's such a dramatic disparity in the race of students in public school relative to the overall population?

Paid by whom, exactly? It's not particularly complimentary towards Google. It's not particularly complimentary towards any incumbents, either. Unless you're suggesting that the less well off population of Kansas City pooled their resources to lobby for an article in the Financial Times, nothing in the article suggests any kind of untoward influence.

Which is of course the stock configuration on most modern luxury vehicles.

At least to date, OS and Office revenue is somewhat dependent on those products' ship cycles. A recently released new version (or the end of support for an old version) generally drives upgrades which mean revenue fluctuates up and down not just on a seasonal basis but over a longer timeframe.

If your solution to ambiguity of date input on a flight search website is to return flight options for either date, you will have a shocking number of customers inadvertently booking flights for the wrong dates, because they're already overwhelmed with a long list of options (airlines, times of day, prices, connecting points, etc.) If you added the randomizing variable of multiple entirely different dates being in play, all bets would be off.

AFAIK the database of hashes is maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who unfortunately do have to deal with the disheartening task of viewing some of that stuff.

Microsoft made an automated system (PhotoDNA) for detecting known child pornography images available to the public a few years ago and it's probably a good starting point: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/

Hopefully this can help you.

(Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on PhotoDNA.)

Why are you building this project?

If it is to learn something, the answer is obvious: build it anyway. You will still learn pretty much all of the things you otherwise would have.

If it is because you feel that the world needs this thing to exist, and it'll become a better place because it does: see if you can contribute to the other people's work. If not, see if what they're doing meets that need and be happy that other people shared your vision of a problem to be solved.

If it's because you wanted to make a company and earn a living: keep going. There are thousands of niches in businesses. You can find yours.

Uber's commercial insurance policy only applies when a driver is actually conveying a passenger or has accepted a trip, not when they're, say, on the way to an area of high demand but don't have a trip accepted yet. This is different from a taxi company's insurance policy, which covers the driver effectively the entire time they are in the cab.

I came back from my last trip to Japan with more than $50 in pens and notebooks, so in a nutshell: the Japanese stationery market is amazing, and even a 7-11 on any random street corner will have a better and dramatically higher quality stationery selection than most big box stores in the US.