Re: Risk and insurance

2000-10-24 Thread Bill Stewart
Archives are on www.inet-one.com At 02:50 PM 10/23/00 +0300, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: >On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote: > >>The book I recommended a week or two ago, Judea Pearl's "Causality," >>is much more advanced in its mathematics. (But the math is important >>if one is actually trying to

Re: Risk and insurance

2000-10-23 Thread Tim May
At 2:50 PM +0300 10/23/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: >On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote: > >>The book I recommended a week or two ago, Judea Pearl's "Causality," >>is much more advanced in its mathematics. (But the math is important >>if one is actually trying to construct the causality diagrams Pea

Re: Risk and insurance

2000-10-23 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >> recant > >"Recount", right? So right it hurts. GOD! >Asking Tim, or anyone else here for that matter, me included, to recant >something, is, of course, an invitation to verbal violence. :-). You can say that again. For less, even, as I well know. E

Re: Risk and insurance

2000-10-22 Thread Tim May
0 of premiums)? >>> >>>That's the whole idea of insurance, isn't it? >>> >> >>You're trolling, aren't you? >> >>Insurance is a good idea for the insured because it takes >>money to make money. > >On the topic of risk a

Risk and insurance

2000-10-22 Thread Greg Broiles
surance, isn't it? > > > >You're trolling, aren't you? > >Insurance is a good idea for the insured because it takes >money to make money. On the topic of risk and insurance, and apropos discussion of reading lists, cypherpunks may find the book "Against