Random musings

[Freed Roger]

Is there such a thing as a truly random musing? Maybe when one is not sober. Otherwise, most my thoughts are related to something in a non-random way.

[slide_into_first]

That was pretty random.

[wart57]

Target confusion is real: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your- ... .html?_r=0

Mrs. Wart is one of those people who can't make up her mind to save her life. I, on the other hand, have no problems making choices, and I very rarely worry I have made the wrong choice afterwards, Mrs. Wart is always second guessing her choices.

[Schlich]

Insurance is quite possibly the most useless thing we've constructed as a capitalist society.

[redbirdjazzz]

Insurance is quite possibly the most useless thing we've constructed as a capitalist society.

It stops barely short of a protection racket.

[New Pagodi]

Insurance is quite possibly the most useless thing we've constructed as a capitalist society.

You really shouldn't sign up for insurance, because really it's just exploiting your human imperfection. Not true. It's win-win. The reason why this insurance can be win-win, at least if the numbers work out the right way, is because you would actually rather have the $400 than this lottery. So in doing this trade, you win. You're happy. The insurance company would rather have the lottery than the $400. Why? Well, their utility curve is much flatter, because they're zoomed in. $10 is nothing to them. They're zoomed in. When you zoom in on anything, it gets pretty flat. It gets pretty linear. Also, remember that the insurance company has a lot of lotteries. So essentially they benefit from the central limit theorem. You don't. So everybody wins. You win. They win.

[Jocephus]

I wrapped a newspaper 'round my head
So I'd look like I was deep
I said some Mumbo Jumbos then
An' told him he was goin' to sleep
I robbed his rings
An' pocket watch
An' everything else I found
I had that sucker hypnotized
He couldn't even make a sound
I proceeded to tell him his future then
As long as he was hanging around,
I said
"The price of meat has just gone up
An' yer ol' lady has just gone down . . . "

[pioneer98]

The Union flag during the Civil War had 34 stars. I'm thinking about getting one to celebrate my heritage...

[Molly]

Insurance is quite possibly the most useless thing we've constructed as a capitalist society.

NSFW

[MrSaigon]

Last week we went to watch an awesome fireworks show from a new transit line bridge downtown. 4/10 people were watching on their phone screens while recording.

1. When are you ever going to watch that?
2. Are fireworks a thing worth not filtering through a 3.5" screen?
3. Is that guy in your sophomore Home Economics class looking at Facebook and saying 'Hey that guy from my sophomore Home Economics course saw fireworks' worth cutting something's impressiveness from thousands of feet to 3.5 inches?