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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.

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.