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Taking Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
- An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
- Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the…
- We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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