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Is the world becoming uninsurable?

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478 points spking | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 00:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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MagicMoonlight ◴[17 Jan 25 06:12 UTC] No.42734580[source]▶
What are we betting that the Americans rebuild in wood again? It seems like they never learn. We had a single city fire like this 500 years ago and since then we haven’t… because we built the city back in brick instead of wood.
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ezequiel-garzon ◴[17 Jan 25 06:39 UTC] No.42734741[source]▶
Where 500 years ago?
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1. lionkor ◴[17 Jan 25 07:56 UTC] No.42735102[source]▶
Europe, a lot of cities went though a few large fires and then went "facepalm oh!!! maybe we should try stone!"