The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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God created Monte Carlo and similar places so extremely rich people would come experience extreme envy.
"When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The only people in favor of centralization are lobbyists, bureaucrats, & DC parasites. Yet the world is centralizing." - Taleb
His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy.
