I read about a woman who is moving to Raleigh Durham from England and asked if it would be sensible to get her daughter a piano teacher in Tennessee. It was pointed out to her that this would be like living in London and getting her daughter a piano teacher in Scotland. (North
Those little details are excellent. You should be ashamed of what you voted for, and the priest ought to have been trying to change such a despicable vote.
The guy ahead of me in line at the liquor store tried to get a bottle of vodka with his birthday card as ID. He got turned away
This is what drinking suppression looks like!
When I advocate localism, I sometimes hear “but what about time X when localism went wrong?” Yup, anything can go wrong. When localism does, we get the Salem witch trials, with 19 dead. When centralism does, we get the Holocaust or Killing Fields, with millions dead. @nntaleb
No, he basically told her that she is female, and the males were having their own bonding day.
Women do similar stuff all the time. I don’t throw a hissy fit when my wife wants to go to dinner with a couple of her female friends.
@nntaleb Your video on correlation was excellent, but contained one error: the correlation between Nicolas Cage movies and pool drownings is not spurious: his movies are so terrible that people who watch them throw themselves into the nearest body of water in despair.
Over-optimizations:
Sterilized kitchens
Avoidance of all possible allergens with kids
Weight machines that isolate a muscle
Work schedules with no slack
Economies with no downturns
@nntaleb
The Mule: Clint Eastwood becomes cartel’s top drug deliverer by following haphazard schedule. But new guy takes over and makes him follow exact route and timetable. Immediately caught! Over-optimization leads to disaster! @nntaleb
Except it did not originate in Lyme CT:
“The earliest known evidence of Lyme disease was found in Oetzi, a 5300 year old mummy in the Eastern Alps near the Italian border.”
But there was probably a US lab there 5300 years ago, right?
