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paulnpaceyesterday at 1:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

I didn't look at the PDF, but the sample size reported in the article is 11 ships(!), which makes me wonder how this might look across a larger population of ships.

I wonder how much labor expense has to be saved to make up for a future catastrophic event?


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ryukopostingyesterday at 3:41 PM

11 might be a larger share of ships worldwide than you'd expect. The complete list of US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships is less than 200:

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-...

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seb1204yesterday at 1:48 PM

Internalize gains, externalizing cost of events or accidents.