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nntaleb: The differences between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: GS has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

nntaleb: The differences between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: GS has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion.

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nntaleb: Main difference between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: Goldman has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

nntaleb: Main difference between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: Goldman has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion

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nntaleb: Common minds find similarities in stories (& situations), finer minds detect differences [Essay on the Universal & the Particular]

Monday, March 8, 2010

nntaleb: Common minds find similarities in stories (& situations), finer minds detect differences [Essay on the Universal & the Particular]

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nntaleb: I wish to say some day about someone “Voilà un homme!” as Napoleon said upon meeting Goethe: mixture of passion & intellect (& elegance too)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

nntaleb: I wish to say some day about someone “Voilà un homme!” as Napoleon said upon meeting Goethe: mixture of passion & intellect (& elegance too)

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nntaleb: E-books: like socializing on skype video, eating protein bars, being a gym-rat, vistng Vegas, or commuting in a box -truncated life, 2D.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

nntaleb: E-books: like socializing on skype video, eating protein bars, being a gym-rat, vistng Vegas, or commuting in a box -truncated life, 2D.

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nntaleb: Übermen tolerate others’ small inconsistencies though not the large ones;losers tolerate others’ large inconsistencies though not small ones

Friday, March 5, 2010

nntaleb: Übermen tolerate others’ small inconsistencies though not the large ones;losers tolerate others’ large inconsistencies though not small ones

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nntaleb: @fmxconnect [nerds in older days were used as scribes, hardly more; others, the unsophisticated, were fighters who valued courage]

Thursday, March 4, 2010

nntaleb: @fmxconnect [nerds in older days were used as scribes, hardly more; others, the unsophisticated, were fighters who valued courage]

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nntaleb: Late 20th C, technology allowed the emergence of the hence unseen combination of men both barbaric and cowardly.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

nntaleb: Late 20th C, technology allowed the emergence of the hence unseen combination of men both barbaric and cowardly.

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nntaleb: Writers are (always) remembered by their best books, politicians are (mostly) remembered by their worst mistakes, (cont) http://tl.gd/dke52

Thursday, March 4, 2010

nntaleb: Writers are (always) remembered by their best books, politicians are (mostly) remembered by their worst mistakes, (cont) http://tl.gd/dke52

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nntaleb: If you want people to read a book, tell them it is overrated.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

nntaleb: If you want people to read a book, tell them it is overrated.

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