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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Do the insurance companies shield themselves by dividing into regional/state zones?

    Edit: also, because it seems it’d be safer to balance risk v reward across the whole country. (They also invest insurance money in the stock market where most of their profit comes from.) Although, I suppose it’d be easier to grift states of their money when it looks like a subsidiary is failing rather than just looking at the whole balance sheet instead.


















  • The largest grift ever

    All of his work has been grifts from the OG X to PayPal and beyond. He just seemed enigmatic or inspired to some people for a time, enough that kool-aid was drunk. (South Africans do have a way of mesmerizing people though, must be the accent.)

    That some good technology happened to pop out of it along the way had less to do with him, and more the engineers tasked with making it happen.