Vijay>"Males over 18 and females over 16 years old may marry with their parents' or guardians' consent, Otherwise South Korea's age of consent to marriage is 20" Wiki
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WA
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weekly jobless claims, a 30Ο event https://t.co/LEO7s5TXsH
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>It isnβt 10,000 hours that creates outliers, itβs 10,000 iterations. @.naval
>It isn't 10,000 experiences that creates wisdom, its 10,000 reflections. @.KyleTibbitts
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>Everything is about time, except time, time is timeless. @.EriTankoka
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>βTradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.β β Donald Kingsbury
@.ShaneAParrish
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>"Heuristic: when picking a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, don't look at the menu, look at the clients." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #heuristic
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>"The most important aspect of fasting is that you feel deep undirected gratitude when you break the fast." - @.nntaleb
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>"One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties."
@.ProfFeynman
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Watching #TerminatorDarkFate..
So it's not an American, and it's not a boy.. This time, an illegal immigrant girl (not his son) from Mexico saves this world.. π
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>If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. βHaruki Murakami π
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>Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. β Jamie Paolinetti
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I have many keys, but no door. I have space, but room. I will allow you to enter, but not leave. What am I?
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You may survive month long lockdown, but your country's economy couldn't..
You may survive with one hundredth of your usual consumption, but your country's economy couldn't..
#covid19
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/
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The Coronation | Charles Eisenstein
Covid-19 is showing us that when humanity is united in common cause, phenomenally rapid change is possible. None of the worldβs problems are technically difficult to solve; they originate in human disagreement. In coherency, humanityβs creative powers are boundless.
>You don't wear a mask jus because you have evidence that transmission is airborne. You wear a mask because YOU DON'T KNOW whether transmission is airborne.
#Asymmetry @.nntaleb
https://t.co/A8VyyVFW2A
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>"Wimbledon reportedly paid $2 million a year for pandemic insurance for the last 17 years
(Total: $34 Million)
For this year's cancellation as a result of the Coronavirus, Wimbledon will reportedly receive $141 million from the policy." @.darrenrovell
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JUST IN: US government debt has passed $24 trillion
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>"Returns are made on the way up. Reputations are made on the way down." @.naval
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>"All u have is this moment. You can have the moment. Or, the mind" @.itsthe_ASK
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>"Success show you to the world, failure show you to yourself." @.jolatankoka
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>"The virus divides us, threatening the lives of the old and the urban, while threatening the livelihoods of the young and the rural." @.naval
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>"Iβm happiest when my current-self is doing something that my future-self will benefit from." @.mkobach
(How do you do something that your future-self will benefit from?)
>"Love your future-self more than your current-self" @.mkobach
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Watching #Contagion..
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>"If you do not take risks for your ideas you are nothing. Nothing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk
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>"Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies." - @.nntaleb
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>"Envy, like thirst for revenge, is the wicked person's version of our natural sense of injustice." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Watching #Shazam.. /307
Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth https://nav.al/consensus
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Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
Whatβs considered to be true is fought over. Individuals search for truth but groups search for consensusβand society is the largest group. So the biggest problem we run into is this: What society wants for you is not always whatβs good for you. Even smart, critical thinkers go along with many of societyβs truths, knowing deep down they are lies. Hereβs a simple example: βMoney wonβt make you happyβ More
"Wealth is a positive sum game and status is a zero-sum game." β @.naval /309
>"The word caravan comes from the Persian karwan meaning "group of desert travelers."
A caravan can be a large group of people traveling together in one long line. It's also the term used for a camper that has a living area in it."
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>"We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness." - Nassim Taleb
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"The Cantillon Effect refers to the change in relative prices resulting from a change in money supply.
The change in relative prices occurs because the change in money supply has a specific injection point and therefore a specific flow path through the economy."
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Life is short: How to add a sense of urgency https://youtu.be/XWwNocaIWxg
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Life Is Short: How to Add a Sense of Urgency | Tim Ferriss
Solid state battery breakthrough.. 900 Wh/l. About 80x like cell phone batteries (3000 mAh), in a 10x10x10 cm package.
#samsung
https://youtu.be/TAFk-CebHWA
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Breakthrough Solid State Battery - 900 Wh/L Samsung [2020]
>"Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
Make these habits. Say no to everything else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax. Victory is assured."
- @.naval
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>"Understanding compounds, memorization doesn't." @.SvenSchnieders
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>"Better to have your idea stolen than to never have an idea worth stealing" - @mkobach
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68 bits of unsolicited advice
https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
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>"People prefer unhappiness over uncertainty." - @.Kpaxs
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>"Everything before the "but" is meant to be ignored by the speaker; and everything after the "but" should be ignored by the listener." - Nassim Taleb
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>"It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness." -
@.nntaleb
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"Models show that if 80 percent of people wear masks that are 60 percent effective, easily achievable with cloth, we can get to an effective R0 of less than one. Thatβs enough to halt the spread of the disease"
https://t.co/AoPqfhlOt3
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>"Only worthwhile thing I got out of graduating from Harvard was never having to be impressed against by the fact that someone graduated from Harvard." - Thomas Sowell
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>"Colleges have to convince students for the next year that a remote education is worth every bit as much as an in-person one, and then pivot back before students actually start believing it.
Itβs like only being able to sell your competitorβs product for a year." - @.naval
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200w MA.. Dow 100pt above & sensex 2000pt below, rn..
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>"All models rely on a small set of critical assumptions.
A good (simple) model uncovers them, while a bad (complicated) model obscures them." - @.naval
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Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters@vjy
#Universities lol.
They are glorified #developers in #Australia - and #tourism operators.
#colleges #tuition #higherEducation #immigration #overdevelopment #overconsumption #college #university
@dsfgs world is slowly learning how useless they're..