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This is absolutely true. There is a pretty staggering difference in terms of how the different insurance companies pay out their claims -- everything from how they dictate services…

> Depositors have a reasonable expectation that when they choose a bank (especially a publicly traded bank that is regulated) that their deposits are safe @garry, while it may be a…

@metadat -- can you provide the source for that? I'm genuinely curious how much Google spends on their privacy org, and esp. how that compares with the other big tech companies.

No, this is not a myth at all. At least not in California... "State-Provided" funds are calculated by the LCFF (Local Control Funding Formula), which is a combination of both State…

It's useful to note that c19early is backed/funded by FLCCC, which has been widely reported to be a "fringe doctor's" group. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fringe-docto…

Actually, I would say anywhere in Taiwan other than Taipei, you'd be fine on $1k USD / month... so for those that would still prefer urban/city life, you should definitely consider…

I'd love to take a moment to talk about the quality of the code (assuming that the full code listing that the Ars article links to is accurate). It's pretty clear that there are no…

SEEKING FULL-TIME FREELANCER | Sr. PHP Developer | REMOTE (preferably Eastern Asia tz, but American tz would be considered) We are Quasidea Development, a team of about 10 people w…

Quasidea Development | Sr. PHP Developer | REMOTE (preferably Eastern Asia tz, but American tz would be considered) | Full-Time Contractor (Permanent) We are a team of about 10 peo…

Maybe this is just way too niche, but I've been wondering why there hasn't been any e-ink based laptops with a powerful enough of a processor (e.g. 10th/11th gen core i7 would be g…

Full disclosure: I have had the distinct "privilege" on having worked with all aspects of large consulting firms, from working at Cap Gemini, to being a sub for a smaller company o…

I concur 100% about Taiwan. I am a US-born Taiwanese-American who lives in San Diego most of the time, but we spend most winters here in Taiwan to visit relatives and try and get m…

I've never heard of nix, so I can't comment to that specifically. But being able to have multiple / separated environments on my machine would be hugely beneficial. Working for a f…

Sorry, but I couldn't help. But please cue Vizzini from "The Princess Bride": "I've hired you to help me start a war! That's a prestigious line of work with a long and glorious tra…

First of all.. congrats! It's always exciting to see something you've created grow and start to gain traction. Second of all, please take all of the advice that you see here with a…

Interesting story... but just out of curiosity, if there was already the investment made in the codebase for your application, as well as the team in place to continue with the pro…

Yes, you are correct, on pretty much all of your points. > IANAL, but my understanding is that HOAs in California can't put a lien on your property for failing to pay fines, only f…

> "they are just borrowing it from the HOA while paying the taxes, insurance, and doing all the work for them to keep the house up." I'm not sure if this sentence was meant to be s…

Absolutely. I was building an enterprise app doing multiple simultaneous asynchronous HTTP calls, but was running into issues where certain connections would just die outright. The…

What an incredible idea for an event! But just out of curiosity, has this been publicized at all? I live in SD, and I regularly tune in to local media (especially NPR/KPBS), and ye…

Awesome idea... one quick feature suggestion -- on the bracket, itself, it'd might be nice to highlight any upsets (e.g. in bold and/or red or something like that). Typically, vari…

All very good points... but one additional thing to add: what is his/her reputation with former co-workers / companies that s/he has worked with? I had one co-founder who (we thoug…

(Also not a lawyer... just someone who has run a single-person "cute freelancing" or "professional services" company for almost a decade now) Not sure what you mean by "it's a big …

As someone who has had a number of rejections from Apple (most of which have been corrected and thereafter accepted), I disagree with the comment. Every time I have gotten a reject…

Matt, first of all, thanks to you and your team for posting in the comments on sites like HN, TechCrunch, and all the other sites where the news is starting to hit the tech communi…