Distribution of the Romaic (Rum) population of the Levant, the GrecoLevantines First time I see this map!
Asides
To improve your writing, write less. My point is not one should write less, but spend less time writing. Just consider that you don’t become a better spouse via serious monogamy, a better friend by networking… I don’t write emails, reports, etc. & love Twitter because of the concision.
I don’t like “Lebanese”; it is fake. I prefer Levantine –I speak to people in Western Syria effortlessly. I can settle for Lebanese being a dialect of Levantine, itself a bona fide language.
The aphorism that upset some of my friends…
Just discovered the concept of NFT. It’s the technology equivalent of what the philosopher Saul Kripke called a “rigid designator”.
The argument that an arbitrage-free crypto-currency with no carrying costs (say #BTC) can never be a hedge against inflation: If it is seen as a hedge, its price today may reflect ALL future inflation. Then it ceases to be a hedge. In other words, an instrument that prices expectations of future inflation but not checked by *realizations* of future inflation is a pathology. Think in terms of implied vs realized volatility. Let me re-explain the idea. A price linked to inflation must reflect current expectations of FUTURE inflation, priced-in (probabilistically). Price changes reflect changes in expectation, & CANNOT be a hedge against inflation. An instrument arbitrageable to a basket is a hedge.
Marshmallowbrain, it means if you must panic panic early. This is not an invitation to panic.
Pasquale, non tradite l’Italia e il Med!
Watched all of them. Montalbano.
By definition, if you are trying to measure your success, you are unsuccessful; and if you are trying to measure your happiness, you are unhappy.
