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This isn't an assessment of content quality, it's of a user's experience.

All Google needs to do is optimize for things like time on page, CTRs, etc to see users abandoning those with paywalls and not those without to decide one is a better experience overall than another.

As it should.

Paywalls present a worse user experience than say Bloomberg.com which shows its content for free.

Unlike potato chips? What product is not designed to be as addictive as possible? One could argue they are being more manipulative but this is not unique or special to social media. Anyone remember subliminal messages in advertising?

I don't think capturing it as "addictive" is totally fair. If people don't get utility from these hooks, they'll leave. Growth hacking doesn't ensure long-term retention, product utility does.

That's interesting considering so many professionals use the Mark III. I recall seeing an article that the NYTimes staff all used Mark II's at one point.

Where does the A7r II / A7S fit in with this? Are they considered a prosumer version of this camera? And if so, what makes this more professional, the FPS?

What about: 1. California ballot initiative 2. Free software (start a TurboTax 100% free alternative) to reduce incentives to have laws like this

Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Founda...

How long do you expect that to be sustainable?

Ansel Adams 7.5/10 https://keegan.regaind.io/p/uoVo3TIjR1C3P-Q49drUlA

5% retail price? That seems quite steep.

I've personally shipped 1,000+ gifts for Kickstarter backers, I'd suggest using Easypost.com unless you really need a warehouse. It's super cheap.

They aren't buying it as a competitor, its likely for the talent+exclusive content offerings.

"When you forget to backup your files" seems more appropriate.

Los Angeles doesn't have many of those :)

Sure it will be limited in all kinds of ways, but many cities will and want to support the early versions.

Yes.

I think maybe in 1-2 cities in limited areas I will be able to use an app on my phone to order a Google car from point A to B. I think it will have lots of limits, perhaps limited to certain areas within a city, perhaps limited by speeds, time of day etc.

I don't think it will be long distance, most cities won't have it, highways later, etc.

This is funny "starting with “Driver in charge” in 2010, progressing to “Driver mostly in charge” this year, to “Car mostly in charge” in 2020, anded,. finally “Car in charge” in 2025."

Given what Google has already demonstrated, its more likely we will see fully autonomous within 5 years. I'm betting less than that in a few test cities.

So probably too late already for "Detroit"

Yes I also keep my own backups. I use Crashplan for the iphoto library, as well as a local SSD backup.

Fortunately iPhoto libraries are just folders so by backing it up you can always take out the folder of originals and put them in Google or anything else.

As a side note I think this brings up another interesting problem than just dealing with the storage, which is, how to enjoy so many photos in a lifetime.

Personally, I decided to severely restrict how many images I keep after a trip, so I'm more likely to actually view them years from now.

For those who don't need quite as much storage (12tb!) I recommend trying Apple's new iPhoto library. It has been pretty close to a dream solution for me.

Now I can take photos on a trip, upload them via my iPad. Make edits to RAW files, curate, and it syncs every time I can connect to wifi, backing up my originals and syncing across all changes to any Apple device (and web).

Does anyone know why bandwidth costs for both AWS and Google have remained flat while storage has rapidly approached .01 cents a gb?

Do they have fixed costs or is this one of the last ways they have to to make money on their platforms?

If only one of these online services could import all meta-data from iPhoto or similar apps.

Moving to most of the current cloud services requires basically ditching years of organizing and meta-data work. So for people like me it becomes just backup.

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Agreed. Most of my usage is in cities where both Sprint and T-mobile have great coverage. Lack of unlimited is a deal-breaker (or at least higher data tiers)

Two observations:

1) Terrible name, really awful. Fi? I guess if it's "project" maybe this wasn't public-brand ready?

2) Why wouldn't someone choose the t-mobile unlimited plan vs this one?

3) For the refund policy, why wouldn't everyone sign up for the lowest plan? The presentation is confusing, just say 1gb min and $10 for each gig after that.

As an advertiser, you desperately want the ability to get info like this. But once you have it, you quickly realize how almost useless it is.

What makes Google Adwords so powerful, is that a search query shows an intent to find a solution or service, so you are advertising to someone already looking for what you are offering.

Emailing someone just causes them to wonder 1) how you got their email, and 2) offers no context other than their bio so it just comes off as spammy and annoying.

I almost think it would be easier to let it do what this video shows, and build a giant metal net to just prevent it from sinking. Or is that harder than landing on a small platform?

Not sure that comparing x-rays to fish oil is a good comparison of risk/reward.

People (like myself) take fish oil for a variety of reasons, in my case to lower the risks of serious heart disease over the risks it might contribute to prostate cancer.

There are even studies that show fish oil could reduce the chances of prostate cancer: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12540506

Ultimately each person has to judge the benefits/risks for themselves until better data is available. It's also worth noting that prostate cancer is increasingly a risk for all men as they age, fish oil or not.

Notable comment in the post:

Bill Harris Sioux Falls, SD 56 minutes ago As a long-time researcher in omega-3s, I've watched the fish oil rollercoaster since the mid 1980s. This most recent posting by O'Connor continues the trend. The best meta-analysis (grand summary of many studies) published to date was from Rizos et al. in JAMA 2012;308:1024-1033). They concluded that fish oil capsules offer “no benefit” for heart patients. Unfortunately, Rizos used a highly controversial statistical maneuver. In their actual data (Fig 2) there was a highly statistically significant reduction in cardiac death associated with fish oil use (p<0.01 for the stat-saavy). So fish oils DID reduce risk for cardiac death. Why the "no effect" conclusion? Rizos et al. decided to set the statistical bar higher than I’ve ever seen it in meta-analyses. They defined a significant p-value as <0.006, instead of the universally accepted p<0.05. This trick changed a positive finding into a negative one and generated a media storm of "fish oils don't work." More recent meta-analyses (Chowdhury et al. Ann Intern Med 2014;160:398-406) reported that higher dietary intakes AND higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids were both significantly linked to reduced risk for heart disease. The problems with the recent fish oil studies are legion, and include using a low dose for a short period of time in older, already-ill patients who are also being treated with up to 5 heart medicines. In this setting it’s nearly impossible to show a benefit. With 0 risk, I still recommend fish oil.

Agree 100%

If they had selective sync with storage at that price, it would be a game changer.

FYI everyone here, this is not even sync. It's a drag and drop to upload applet :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

"Note: The Cloud Drive Sync application (formerly, the "Cloud Drive desktop application") is no longer available for download. If you already have the application installed on your computer, you can continue to use it. However, if you uninstall the application, you won't be able to reinstall it from the website."