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I actually think that the tax treatment differs as well - the 2 months free can be treated as a marketing expense, whereas the reduced rent simply results in the lower revenue.

For financed buildings it also keeps the nominal value of the building at the same level - it's still technically "rented" for the same rate, keeping future cash flow projected the same.


Yeah, the “enterprise” product lineage is more Live Communicator -> Office Communicator -> Lync -> Skype for Business (kinda direct link to, even though it’s SaaS only) -> Teams


From what I hear the Lead Architect of Teams used to work on Lync. So I can easily agree that Teams is a child of Lync. Some things are improved though I hear a lot of people having issues with Teams sadly.


Teams is supposed to be the replacement. It's kind of trash as an instant messenger client, for entirely interface-related reasons - they built it in Electron, so it is difficult to pop out separate windows for individual chats, so one is stuck with tabbed soup.

Although it's probably the best voip and video conferencing software they have put out.


Well, they may export crude, but without refinery capacity they are probably capped at the rate they can produce usable product.


How is that an enormous dose? The recommendation is 2x200mg every 4-6h. When doing competitive athletics, I probably took 1-3g of “vitamin I” a day.

600mg a day is barely above a single dose.


>How is that an enormous dose?

600mg is over half a gram of pure active ingredient.

Namely isobutylphenylpropionic acid, a cheap commodity product.

This material is not non-toxic and different people will succumb at different levels of lethality to different doses over different periods of time.

Not long ago I lost a friend to liver and kidney failure attributed by her final doctor as due to the 800mg daily recommended by her previous physician over a few year period.


What were you taking it for? Pain reduction? (Curious, no judgement, trying to understand if there was any other reason)


It's an anti-inflammatory. Helps with all kinds of things - sore muscles, tooth aches - it's not really pain relief so much as it is things-that-cause-pain relief.


I think I'd be willing to pay more to offset higher content costs for more theater/blockbuster type movies. If Netflix was say 14.99 instead, I wonder what that would do to help? Perhaps splitting the content between tiers? It would shrink their "user base" for the purposes of streaming, allowing higher per-user payments on a title-by-title basis.

Sad part is, I know they are trying to lower that amount, and show that content providers need them as much/more than Netflix needs their content, but as a consumer, I'd like the options.


An idea for NetFlix would be to have a higher tier package that has access to content for longer. So if the average agreement for access to material is six months, people with the higher tier package have access to it for six months and people without it have access for four months. Higher tier customers get it a month early and a month after it rotates out for lower tier customers.


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That works until you get into anything complicated. Recently, I had a spreadsheet that our finance team built that provided different calculated values (for a multi table aggregation, nothing simple for sure) on Excel Windows and Excel OS X. This is not an uncommon problem - I've seen it a handful of times. Excel for OS X is at about 90+% parity with Excel for Windows.

This only bites you occasionally, but when you are a spreadsheet driven org (e.g. Finance groups in a company) you often need the performance/top-end feature set of Excel for Windows.


Sure it can - think of smallpox: the first smallpox "vaccine" was actually inoculation with cowpox - a similar, but less virulent virus. The provoked immune response rendered a smallpox infection less lethal, and provided a measure of protection.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine


That's quite different, we are speaking of have two pathogens compete, not about triggering an immune response.

If you took someone who is already infected with smallpox and gave them cowpox it would not help.

You confused in what order the infections occur.


Realistically, these are all the same thing in different manners - dissolving a business, and starting another immediately competing in the same space, which seems shockingly sensible to me.


I used to run a dual stack app, windows was Roman mythology, linux was Greek, that allowed us to keep roles straight across environments - apollo/hermes, athena/minerva, etc.


You...do know that Apollo and Hermes are two entirely different entities, right? Hermes is the counterpart of the Roman Mercury. Apollo has the same names in both pantheons.


Yeah, I remembered that wasn't the right pairing after I wrote that (and thankfully ours weren't paired like that, we had the right names); but that also goes to show you the downside of that particular naming scheme - it requires additional knowledge in a specific domain.



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