Question
You have read about insuretech, but you do not know what it is. What is the insuretech industry?

Background
An economy driven by short-term, niche demands can be satisfied by anonymous providers via recently pioneered mediums of exchanges has created a new area of need for both insurance and technology products.

The modern marketplace of new contracts, anonymous providers,

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Problem scenario
“Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine”

Possible solution
Run this:

sudo systemctl status docker.service

Examine the output. Does the “Drop-In” section include an override.conf file or other wise refer to a .conf file?

Back up the file (e.g., to your home directory).
Remove the original file.
Then run these commands:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start docker …

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One of the below problem scenarios is happening.

Possible problem scenario #1
You try to download a file with curl or wget. Instead of downloading the file, you get a file with this as the content:

gzip: /home/ubuntu/foobar.tar.gz: not in gzip format
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

You use a web browser,

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Problem scenario
You want to copy a subarea of a copied screenshot (just like Paint in Windows). How do you copy a rectangle cropped selection of a pasted screen shot using LibreOffice Draw?

Solution
1. Open LibreOffice Draw and paste the image in.
2. Click on the square icon in the upper right. It is an image of a square with sides extended on the left upper and right lower corners like this:

Click that beige/orange square with an empty middle.

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