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811.
by wbl 2y ago
Annuities are the same math but different product, and got valued first by Haley. I'm not aware of life insurance being illegal per se, and there might be ways to work around it via structuring as a fraternal organization ala the origi
812.
by wbl 2y ago
Or by paying administrators. Also remember that the Permanente group is for profit. The non-profit only administers the insurance and the buildings.
813.
by wbl 2y ago
So snow at 13,000 feet in the summer, deep inland. How has there not been attempts to develop this for alpine sports? The quality of the snowfall plus the terrain seems made for it.
814.
by wbl 2y ago
The people or the corrupt autocrats who send secret policemen out and about?
815.
by wbl 2y ago
Create life and casualty insurance!
816.
by wbl 2y ago
You absolutely read the S1 statement. What else would you be reading?
817.
by wbl 2y ago
Ex ante it's hard to tell what's shitty and what isn't. Remember some VCs also got fooled by it!
818.
by wbl 2y ago
Hurin would be the most famous counterexample.
819.
by wbl 2y ago
Sounds like Sam got sacked for refusing to resolve a conflict of interest to me.
820.
by wbl 2y ago
This is complete false. If you duck and cover and stay inside to avoid fallout you stand an excellent chance of survival. Many hospitals are thick concrete buildings with high blast survivability.
821.
by wbl 2y ago
Does every musicologist need to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen and play piano like Rachmaninoff?
822.
by wbl 2y ago
Chrome works even if Google is down How is it an SPOF? And links mozilla.org will get you an alternative.
823.
by wbl 2y ago
Strangely the 0.05% management fee I pay covers the fix costs of my mutual fund.
824.
by wbl 2y ago
With the cost of launch so low does Brilliant Pebbles become affordable again?
825.
by wbl 2y ago
XDR was already a core part of NFS. And then there was a DEC alternative also.
826.
by wbl 2y ago
They don't. Maybe if you're really good you notice the higher overhead but you expect to be spending time writing to the network. The actual impact shows up when the bandwidth consumption is way up on packet and TCP headers which
827.
by wbl 2y ago
Because you've got to take care of your sick mother was very famously a reason. But there's an more serious reason: you can hire an incredible depth of experts here you can't anywhere else, who are immersed in informal networ
828.
by wbl 2y ago
For huge mistakes sure. But unless people even top of the chain are more worried about fixing the problem than looking good you have a recipe for disaster.
829.
by wbl 2y ago
We work in a glass factory. Everyone is going to break something sometime. And it's the job to structure it so it isn't too much.
830.
by wbl 2y ago
People are always losing jobs and getting new ones. Where people struggle is with rate exposure and some industries and big ticket items like housing.
831.
by wbl 2y ago
On the street relative addresses and way markers are enough. Think about the pre smartphone direction days.
832.
by wbl 2y ago
The nursing homes were charnal houses. You would need one hell of a stroke risk to make the vaccine not worth it. The andrenovirus vector clotting was fast appearing and rare enough continuing was worth it in elderly populations.
833.
by wbl 2y ago
Vaccine risks tend to be very quickly detectable. The phase three trial timing was driven by needing enough infections and there weren't enough.
834.
by wbl 2y ago
Remember the pandemic? The FDA had safety and effectiveness data by end of August for the vaccine and were unprepared to do an analysis in less than a few months. Nor did they consider drafting the party boys of the Ozarks to get the effici
835.
by wbl 2y ago
Houston does have extensive density controls
836.
by wbl 2y ago
Do you think tight money leads to people retiring early? I assure you, having been alive in 2008, it does not.
837.
by wbl 2y ago
Oh there are more. I think hundreds are known, but only a few populations have each one.
838.
by wbl 2y ago
I don't think that works. First off the server doesn't know when the client goes away so has to hold the snapshot forever. Secondly you double your replication latency and have extreme sensitivity to stragglers, unless you take th
839.
by wbl 2y ago
1999 called you over Iridium.
840.
by wbl 2y ago
When you're rich you can have untouchable bombers and precision artillery destroy your genocidal enemies from hundreds of miles away. When you're poor you end up suffering from bombings and cruise missile attacks. When you're

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