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They didn’t pull out in WA, they just stopped offering really cheap plans that were easy to cancel. They continued to offer higher-end LTC Insurance.

If the manager doesn't support a reasonable amount of vacation time, then there are almost certainly other issues. It is hard for me to fathom the intersection of "good manager" an…

You think it is highly unlikely that Facebook/Meta is selling granular user data?

Git was developed as an OSS clone of BitKeeper (which was originally provided freely to Linux kernel developers under the agreement that they not develop a clone). https://en.wikip…

Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5…

I don't see taxes listed as a line item in the comparison, which is a huge factor. WA State does not have income tax.

80% of hops in America come from the Yakima Valley, which is in Eastern Washington. They even have a large hop festival every year. I think this presence influences the beer scene …

If you can establish self-sustaining societies on multiple planets you eliminate humanity's greatest threat - the fact that Earth is a single point of failure.

If you take the Ballard Connector to MSFT it is not that bad. 45-60 minutes depending on traffic. With the new 520 work on the Eastside, the carpool lanes are speeding things up dr…

But if the DRM solution is implemented through JS code in the browser, it is trivial to pirate. I know DRM is always broken, etc., but at the same time it is hard to take an argume…

The legal terms state "A User owning physical media must use VidAngel’s filtering service to permit the streaming of Filtered Video Content to the User’s device." Section 5.2 at ht…

Please read the article before posting. The author specifically discusses the fact that astronauts show signs of aging more rapidly despite the fact that small doses of radiation c…

These are site-specific implementation issues, and have nothing to do with the DASH ISO standard.

DASH is purely an XML format for describing server-side content. The issues you are describing have nothing to do with DASH and are due to implementation decisions in both the JS p…

Just because more words exist, does not mean the authors make use of these words. I think the author would agree that English has more words - he cites the dictionary sizes skewing…

#2 and #3 are explicitly points being addressed by jet.com. Re #2: The entire Jet model is the more you buy the more you save. Taking the baseball example, it's pretty easy to infe…

Please don't spread FUD. I've never tried to find the EULA before, but it appears to be pretty simple. 1) Go to www.microsoft.com 2) Search "windows 8 eula" ( http://search.microso…