>"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. That’s 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.

It’s like only being able to sell your competitor’s 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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>"When you're in the middle of a crisis, you tend to overestimate how permanent its effects will be." - @.paulg

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NOM.

WA /336

"The problem with information is not that it is diverting and generally useless, but that it is toxic."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness

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Watching #Alaipayuthey..

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#Singlish 101..
https://nowboarding.changiairport.com/live-local/singlish-101-how-to-sound-like-a-local.html

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Happy mother's day.

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"While there is inordinate uncertainty about what is going on, there is great certainty about what one should do about it." - Nassim Taleb

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"Just like a low resting heart rate is the byproduct of intense exercise, low anxiety is the byproduct of intense self-examination." @.naval

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>"Hyphens and Dashes. A hyphen joins two or more words together while a dash separates words into parenthetical statements.

The two are sometimes confused because they look so similar, but their usage is different.

Hyphens (black-and-white) are not separated by spaces, while a dash (one - five) has a space on either side."

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"If it hurts to hear it, look for the truth in it.

If it comforts to hear it, look for the lie in it.' - @.naval

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$$ printing vs. #UniversalBasicIncome.. say, $11M

A (line of credit) - x
B (line of credit) - 10x

$$ printing: A gets $1M, B gets $10M

#UBI: A gets $5.5M, B gets $5.5M

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"The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#covid19 open side, close side.. open side isn't forcing anyone to come out, but close side forcing everyone to stay inside.. 🤔

/347

"Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

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"More data means more information, but it also means more false information." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

/349

Banker: கடன் வேனுமா?
Villager: லோனா குடுத்தா நல்லாருக்கும்

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"Books make you think; news tells you what to think." - @.SvenSchnieders

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"The modern caste system is built around the university diploma." - @.naval

/353

Remote-controlled nanobot helps inseminate an egg 😮 https://t.co/y07sb24oPV https://t.co/zR91Jx7rkJ

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Me: zink
Spell checker: 🙄
Me: what?

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"The virus doesn’t change who your friends are, it reveals who your friends are." @.naval

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"Calm the stomach. Move the body. Rest the mind." - @.naval

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