Muscles without strength
Status without respect
Rank without power
Prestige without influence
Form without function
Ripeness without wisdom
Pomp without authority
(The modern monarchy)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Flaneur: probability (philosophy, math), probability (real life), Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine. #RWRI
Days like today make you feel republican and force you to forget the hidden benefits of a purely ceremonial, defanged, and even overtly degenerate monarchy.
For there is something ridiculous about rank without power. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654800050281754624
RT @TechAtBloomberg
Don't miss this month's @Bloomberg's #Quant (BBQ) Seminar Series on Wed., May 24 (5:30-7 PM EDT), feat. a keynote by @nntaleb entitled "Some Practical Problems in #Probability", plus lightning talks
-> LOCATION: 120 Park Ave
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#QuantFinance
Don't miss this month's @Bloomberg's #Quant (BBQ) Seminar Series on Wed., May 24 (5:30-7 PM EDT), feat. a keynote by @nntaleb entitled "Some Practical Problems in #Probability", plus lightning talks
-> LOCATION: 120 Park Ave
Register now: https://bloom.bg/44lgsAt
#QuantFinance
2) Since we started the conversation, that cyclist friend of mine is asking me to ask my Twitter cycling friends whether for his new (sating black) endurance Domane bike, PD-EH500 works better than PD-T8000.
"Neuro" something has always been a great refuge fo the charlatans.
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RT @hubermanlab
@lexfridman You are the one to do it Lex. I think they should each get a pop quiz, a psychological assessment, and a cognitive assessment. Include a personality test while you’re at it. The voters deserve data. USADA can test too.
https://twitter.com/hubermanlab/status/1650987958168862720
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RT @hubermanlab
@lexfridman You are the one to do it Lex. I think they should each get a pop quiz, a psychological assessment, and a cognitive assessment. Include a personality test while you’re at it. The voters deserve data. USADA can test too.
https://twitter.com/hubermanlab/status/1650987958168862720
Inverse #SkinintheGame. You get rich selling a story and transfer the downside to suckers.
Many techies were upset with the criticism of the insiders cashing out upon the "debut", w/a legal trick that allowed them to sell immediately, unlike with standard IPOs.
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RT @edels0n
One of the greatest robberies of the decade.
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2023/shareholder-lawsuit-says-coinbase-execs-vcs-saved-1-billion-by-selling-befo…
https://twitter.com/edels0n/status/1653227721072209922
