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bkberry352

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About bkberry352

email: at bkrelay.mozmail.com

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    Comment #42701266

    The apps allow you to mark the trips on which you were a passenger and those aren't counted

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    Comment #42701214

    Yes, models have to be shared with regulators and the regulators have to be convinced that the premiums insurers wish to charge are actuarially justified (supported by the data).

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    Comment #42700929

    That's for the corporation as a whole and counts the net of investment profits and insurance losses. If you open their earnings release, you can see combined ratios over 100%, indi…

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    Comment #40805545

    Answered in their FAQ[1]: > Decommissioning by boosting an object to a higher “graveyard” orbit to extend orbital lifetime is often done with smaller satellites operating near geos…

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    Comment #39791829

    Reinsurance doesn't make the problem go away. Sure it caps State Farm's exposure to these correlated events, but it won't bring their combined ratio into balance. State Farm would …

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    Comment #39694017

    Correct, the pilots did not have any indication in the cockpit. ATC had to identify which plane the tire fell from, contact the plane, the plane had to talk to their company before…

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    Comment #36407023

    Strongly recommend insurance or financial services in general. Many are flexible with remote work, and some are now fully remote. The meeting load is moderate, but the actual work …

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    Comment #33550569

    Where are you that your Trader Joe's are like this? Every one I've been in is set up just like a normal grocery store with aisles

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    Comment #32857053

    That's more or less what the data you linked to[1] demonstrates: a us average 3.5% increase per year. Not a median though, a mean. The median increase is probably more like 2% per …

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    Comment #32596130

    That's already happening in the sense that companies are able to offer these discounts for their telematics-using customers by surcharging all their other customers. If you're not …

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    Comment #32553941

    Telling this first is a good way to have every company think that 5 days/week is an organizational requirement and brush off the candidate. Having the candidate wait until after th…

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    Comment #32484191

    > You don't need to track every single mouse-click, visited site, or anything else. They don't track mouse clicks or visited sites. You can see everything collected by going to abo…

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    Comment #32484127

    HDR support for YouTube has been available on Mac for a few versions now: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/100.0/releasenotes/

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    Comment #32471170

    Agree, Corvallis rocks. Beautiful weather, decent food, close to cities, mountains, the coast. Not sure where the down votes are coming from, maybe to stop you from letting the sec…

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    Comment #32471151

    It's the opposite where I am: landlords raising rates to capture more of those sweet student loan dollars. The policy of making access to credit cheap and ubiquitous for students h…

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    Comment #32401334

    Very low probability? No way. They push the rates lower than ever before during each crisis, we just have to wait till the next one.

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    Comment #32265606

    No, it's not true, anyone can opt out of telemetry at any time via about:preferences, you don't even need to go to about:config https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clien…

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    Comment #32265533

    > If you're fine with sending to Mozilla everything you type into the address bar... That ability is opt-in only. By default, Mozilla does not see anything typed in the address bar…

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    Comment #32265473

    There is a way and it's officially documented: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid just go into about:preferences

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    Comment #32265470

    Uhh, you absolutely can disable telemetry, it's in the Privacy and Security section of about:preferences, see here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid . Disabl…

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    Comment #31731761

    Can you put some money into instruments to hedge against rising interest rates? Something like TBT comes to mind (it's a fund that's short treasuries basically, so increases in val…

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    Comment #31728154

    The majority of American homes are fixed for 30 years

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    Comment #30725626

    Telemetry waits 30 minutes to start sending to give users time to opt out, see the note in the documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

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    Comment #30725574

    Mostly that they no longer have to compete with Zillow

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    Comment #30724335

    What part of the telemetry is aggressive?