Elepsis

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by Elepsis 7y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 9y ago
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 OneDriv
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by Elepsis 9y ago
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?
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by Elepsis 9y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 9y ago
OneDrive supports version history for Office documents but not other file types.
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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 cir
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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?
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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 s
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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&#
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by Elepsis 10y ago
Not that many people want to deal with "easy monthly payments." Which is why most small developers should be charging their subscriptions annually.
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by Elepsis 10y ago
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 upgrad
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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
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by Elepsis 11y ago
It's also pretty clearly a joke, per the Zenefits reference.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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?
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by Elepsis 11y ago
Sounds like a recipe to have most of your cancellations be via chargeback.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 the
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 exac
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 t
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 t
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by Elepsis 11y ago
Which is of course the stock configuration on most modern luxury vehicles.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 dow
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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.
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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&#x
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 t
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 d
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by Elepsis 11y ago
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 sta

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