How can one tell how much is being saved through your service compared to contracting directly with a SaaS (Box, Okta, for example.) keeping in mind, that rarely are list prices what small companies pay to begin with, though admittedly, larger companies can get bigger discounts.

When technical issues come up, does one get support directly from the vendor; if not, how does that work?

Thanks for taking a look and great questions. The premise of Genuity is smaller customers can get better pricing together by bundling lower demand into a single delivery system. Typically, smaller companies are harder to reach and service with a direct salesforce and are typically services by resellers and VARs like CDW. We believe our model lowers costs for customers but also the vendors by cutting the fat out of the system using software. As an example, we are running a promotion on MSFT and save customers 15% versus what is on their site. In the future we are also thinking of allowing customers to share what they are paying as well.

Also, today in our marketplace we integrate these apps directly for billing, provision, etc. so we handle all the support elements.

Being that we are animals, this trait is not restricted to humans. Animals don't observe much when another type of animal huts a different animal but may come to the defense of its own kind, if related.

With 77 Billion they could have:

-Built better transit to North Bay.

-Built/Complete Bart circuit around the Bay Area.

-Built HSR to reach exurbs of Gilroy (S), Tracy (E), and Napa (N).

That would have given breathability to the bay area.

The barriers to these things isn't funding, it's that certain stakeholders don't want them. The North Bay in particular (taken as a collective entity) is huge on convincing themselves that they're entitled to the benefits of cooperative society but don't have any responsibilities to one in turn.

My pet project (not that I have any influence to make it a reality) is to completely fill up the bay starting from Alviso with concrete and creating housing there. No NIMBY can stop it, we can also flatten the mountains near fremont and use it to fill up the bay.

You are too optimistic. Seattle's ST3 would cost 54 Billion to build 62 miles light rail. And I think such project in Bay Area would be more expensive. So, just pick one

Presumably they'd be used for FEMA-type issues; which are generally about imminent hazards.

> “bombarded” with “thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder,”

Those aren't "shitty users" those are vile and criminal people doing extremely horrible things and sharing them. Most or many of those people should be, where possible, referred to local authorities for judicial processing. FB can very well ID these offenders. It's not like they don't collect enough information to know who they are.

>No sane govt will allow a foreign power to literally be able to shutdown one of their cities on a whim.

Hasn't Gasprom done this [cut supply] in the past but continues to have customers in Europe? If it's cheap enough they will probably have customers.

After a long running dispute over theft of gas intended for western Europe, Gasprom cut off gas to Ukraine for 3 days in winter 2006 [1].

Note that Naftogaz (Ukraine gas organisation) later admitted to this theft, which was worth $3 billion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...

Please note, that no theft was admitted by Naftogaz (outside usual Russian circle of propaganda).

I definitely prefer the old logo. The new one is extremely generic and does not convey any feeling via the logo.

My biggest problem with the new logo is that they're effectively un-branding the Library of Congress by trying to brand it as LIBRARY.

That's like trying to rebrand the White House as HOUSE.

Their concern is that too many people read "...of Congress" and assume it's not for them. They're very much pushing the idea that it's a library first.

Not sure I like how they did that, but I get the idea.

....and now I just had a horrifying thought.

This is another symptom of Idiocracy becoming a documentary?

I always felt the old logo looked too postal. Like it was a franked stamp.

The new one is also not great. But I guess the directive was to maximize "library" and minimize associations with "congress."

Not everyone in the world wants to or needs to be goal oriented --where goal is something momentous.

If you need RAW file archival, then most photo sites will not work and you will have to use OneDrive, Box, etc. Most free photo sites will convert or require conversion to popular compressed formats. That may be okay with many/most, however, some people will want to retain original files.