On Bullshit
Asides
But with French wine.
WHAT I LEARNED TODAY The origin of “Truth” seems to be related to ethics, not to the epistemic/scientific. Interesting: Truth = Justice, Same in Aramaic ܩܘܫܬܐ, classical Arabic, حق, no? But unsure about other Semitic tongues ( קֹשְׁטְ does not seem to map to ܩܘܫܬܐ). twitter.com/a_dogandzic/st…
My usual pilgrimage/hike, 5400 steps from my house using the back road.
Inflation is when what you own goes down and what you don’t own goes up. 2) Note that I block people who nitpick aphorisms. A more formal (and different) definition of inflation is in the “Bitcoin Black Paper”.
This is a horrible use of correlation. If police spending reduces the crime rate, then EX POST there must be NO cross-sectional correlation between crime and police spending. The only way to know is by lagging variables.
In #Lebanon, 96% of the Shiites, 99% of the Christians, and 100% of the Sunnis have no vested interest in military adventurism, particularly that “victory” does not pay off –victories have always been Pyrrhic. Perhaps, this is News: Hezb sec. general angrily shouting Hezb has 100,000 fighters. Interpretation: He is conciliatory & doesn’t want war. Had he wanted war he would have retaliated, not threatened with hyperbole. But again, can be unpredictable.sinking in.
This rich friend of mine: “the main noticeable advantage of being rich is that you don’t need to overpay for wine anymore.” Levantine wine is expensive. Bery expensive. Italian wine is relatively much better priced. Locally.
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