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OfSanguineFire
on Aug 27, 2023
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Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 yea...
Please don’t do this here. Not only are jokes low-value comments on HN, but I imagine a number of readers are already aware that the earliest recorded insurance fraud was connected with bottomry in the ancient Mediterranean.
irrational
on Aug 27, 2023
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Wait, was that last part a joke? Is this like a meta joke? You chastise someone else for making a joke and then make one yourself?
Xymist
on Aug 27, 2023
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Nope, not a joke. Some twit in ancient Greece insured a ship, claimed it sank, claimed on the insurance, and went to keep/sell the cargo.
distortionfield
on Aug 27, 2023
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This was a great TIL
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottomry
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