Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

Flaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life),Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine.Canaan. Vowelpointmarkets.com 👇 Joined May 2013

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

3 months ago

If you want to eat real food, avoid 1) restaurants with a Michelin star or trying to get a Michelin star, 2) restaurants with a "famous" chef, 3) restaurants with a view.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

3 months ago

There is nothing preemptive about a preemptive strike, particularly in a dynamic & interactive environment. You can learn about the benefits of preemptive assassinations from the New York Gambino family, as it lead to its complete self destruction.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

8 months ago

3/ The Founder of the movement, Hasan al-Sabbah (the Old Man of the Mountain) "was known for his ascetic and austere religious lifestyle. At his modest living quarters in the Alamut Castle, he spent most of his time reading, writing, & administering." "During his 45 yr

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

8 months ago

The Palestinian condition became a magnet for incorruptible and morally uncompromising souls.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

8 months ago

You don't say: there are >30 European states; let's disperse Romanians & distribute them across "Europe". The problem of "Arabism" is that it built the Israeli argument that Palestinians are fungible with Iraqis, Egyptians, or Morroccans. Palestinians ARE the original Hebrews.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

8 months ago

To spread your ideas you don't need the good guys to say good things about your works; you need the bad guys to say bad things about them.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

8 months ago

Praying in holy languages, like Latin or Greek, is real; you know people have prayed in it for 1950 years. Until that Vatican 2 "improvement" killed Catholicism.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

9 months ago

When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.

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Taleb Nassim Nicholas @Taleb898taleb

9 months ago

Urologists friends: how common now is it to do a radical prostatectomy for benign hyperplasia? Aren't there so many techniques to shrink the gland (Rezum, Uroclip etc.) Statistically, this seems to be done when cancer cells have started to invade surrounding tissue.