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People find it depressing, but it tells me not to waste my (limited) time.
I remember reading somewhere on the internet about a person who had a decorative bowl in their house. This bowl was full of marbles. Once a week, they would take a marble out of the bowl and throw it away. Each marble was a week of their life. When they started this practice, they calculated their life expectancy and bought enough marbles for each week they were statistically expected to live. The idea is to give you…
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It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80.
Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
I remember reading somewhere on the internet about a person who had a decorative bowl in their house. This bowl was full of marbles. Once a week, they would take a marble out of the bowl and throw it away. Each marble was a week of their life. When they started this practice, they calculated their life expectancy and bought enough marbles for each week they were statistically expected to live. The idea is to give you…
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I don't think that will destroy the life insurance industry. In fact, I think it will help them. If I buy a life insurance policy for a 15 year old today, I pay them $X in order to receive $Y when the insured dies. If the insured lives for 70 years, the insurance company has 70 years to invest $X, in order to have $Y available when the insured dies. But if the insured lives 80 years, then the insurance company has 10…
The main problem if I understand correctly is with pensions. They have 10 more years to invest your money, but they also have to pay you for 10 more years... so the longer you live, the less they profit. Live long enough, and they will lose money. And if enough people live longer than expected, the insurance company could go bankrupt.
Social Security is an example of this, http://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/agereduction.html. This, of course, requires an act of Congress to change. But businesses aren't so limited, new employees can be brought in on a new pension system while grandfathering in the old ones, with few (if any) legal holdups.
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80. Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80. Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
This somehow cheered me up. It showed it to me that the blocks of weeks that I felt great make up a huge chunk of life -- thank you!
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80. Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
... I then clicked the age of death and couldn't change it :(
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80. Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
"Once birth date is set, you can click it to change it." ... I then clicked the age of death and couldn't change it :(
I made this 'mori clock' awhile back (used to have it at a url): https://s3.amazonaws.com/mori-app.com/index.html It shows your life in blocks of weeks, up till your 80. Edit: I bought the domain back :) http://moriclock.com/ (might still be propagating)
This somehow cheered me up. It showed it to me that the blocks of weeks that I felt great make up a huge chunk of life -- thank you!