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by WJW 1454 days ago
Seems like an incredible opportunity for a combined fintech/civil engineering startup. You can forego actuarial tables if you have a decent enough understanding of the building process to estimate what the failure modes are going to be.
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> fintech/civil engineering startup > You can forego actuarial tables

Please no. Mortgages inevitably get resold to investors. The last thing we need is another 2008 because half the new houses built start crumbling after 10 years