Racism is the use of the law of large numbers (and scaling) in the opposite direction, by attributing presumed population traits to single individuals.
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My full time professional specialty is squid ink. The rest are hobbies.
How you did in this pandemic, as a country, a village, a business, a group, or an individual, whether emotionally, economically, or morally, is an indication of how robust you are and how fit you will be for the next decades. 2/ Things that went intellectually bankrupt over the pandemics & will hardly recover: Epidemiology Fortune cookie (positive) “evidence” base science Bureaucratic topdown structures: WHO, CDC, UK Group Rent seeking academia can no longer be financed. Universities will crumble.
The Koura ones are small and tasty as they are. Later bastardized versions were larger hence allow for stuffing. We don’t need stuffing.
I failed to read it. Legend has it that Russell left 5 pounds ~ page 100 in the copy at the British Museum. 10 years later it was still there.
If you EVER catch me discuss a book I haven’t read, I shut my Twitter acct & leave public life. (Exceptions: excerpts Das Kapital, Smith’s TMS, AlFarabi) (PS. I despise pple who discuss my ideas w/o having read my books.) Below: Read Pinker & other crap
Syria is an ill defined exoname. What people orig. called “Syria” was the Hellenistic dominion around Antioch/Emesa, which didn’t always include Damascus. Expanded to West Aram Syrion in the Ancient Testament = Anti-Lebanon (Srion ve Lvanon) Syria doesn’t mean Aram nor Srion. Nor does “Syria” mean “bilad sh sham” Sham being an exoname for Northern country.
SPACE Menander [modernized]: Καλύτερα να είσαι φτωχός στην ξηρά παρά πλούσιος στη θάλασσα Πρέπει να είναι (shd be) Καλύτερα να είσαι φτωχός στην ξηρά παρά πλούσιος στη Aρη i.e., Better be poor on earth than rich on Mars.
Buzzati… non mi piace piu. Troppo giornalistico fuori da Deserto.
(Note: I am not connected to @TalebWisdom ). Robb’s book, it is safe to say, is still on my mind 13 years later! This is much much better than Braudel’s.
