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Off topic but I really hate modern web design. I found the content of this article interesting but I could hardly read it scrolling through in-article ads, banners, etc. One of the…

Terrifying read

Reading some of the compendiums with Watersons commentary are a really interesting look into how things changed over the years and an insight into comic publishing

The notion that big business is conspiring to keep children from playing in the rain because of… reasons… might be my new favorite conspiracy. I’m bought in.

I'm not aware that these currently exist but the concept of reinsurance on reinsurance is not new (it's called retrocession). I will do some digging and see what I can find - thank…

Thank you! As an Actuary I'm not exactly known for my design skills so it was a lot of effort to get things looking the way I wanted.

While Covid 19 was certainly a "Catastrophe", the market for pandemic insurance in 2020 was minuscule and to my knowledge did not cause any insurer solvency issues. There were a fe…

Thank you! No matter how many times I read things over I managed to leave a few behind. I will make those edits shortly.

New opportunities for retail investors have been popping up lately! That’s a big part of what Riskvest is meant to document.

The lack of information was my inspiration for building Riskvest. I called my own broker and when I said catastrophic bonds they asked if I meant buying bonds already in default. O…

Correct on every point and great insight, hello fellow insurance person. I will clarify that CAT bonds can have industry loss triggers OR actual indemnity triggers. If an indemnity…

Blown away by the traffic from this post! For the web designers here please let me know if you noticed anything amiss. Ive had particular issues getting captchas working so please …

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The lack of quality is what gets to me. I've used AI tools in many aspects of my life to great benefit. Yet, nowadays scrolling through Reddit, X, or even video based platforms are…

At risk of derailing the conversation, I finished Cryptonomicon earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Any recommendations for similar books?

NJ residents who work in NYC do not pay the city income tax.

As someone who learned most of my initial coding abilities through R and RStudio in a data science context, and since moved on to more “standard” languages and IDEs, I’ve yet to fi…

The intention was for a 10:19am test, however the test was set using UTC instead of PDT time zones.

I believe it was Schopenhauer who said in one of his essays that (I’m paraphrasing) just because content is new, doesn’t make it good, because with a constant stream of new content…

Snowcrash

I’m convinced that the people who constantly parrot this online are just terrible at excel.

Sure, advertising is collectively a multi-trillion dollar industry propelled largely by computer/data science, but it is still only a fraction of overall economic activity driven b…