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related from Nassim Taleb: if in an expensive area you need too choose between a shoddy looking restaurant and a beautiful stylish one, go to the shoddy one, be
by dist-epoch 4y ago
related from Nassim Taleb: if in an expensive area you need too choose between a shoddy looking restaurant and a beautiful stylish one, go to the shoddy one, because probably the only reason it can survive in that area is that it has great food, the stylish one could survive just because people go there for the atmosphere.
- dxuh 4y agoThat is only true in an equilibrium. Most of the time things are not in an equilibrium and it's perfectly possible that shoddy restaurant is going to close very soon or hasn't been open for a long time. Of course if you know that this restaurant was shoddy and is shoddy for years now, then it's fair to assume the food is great.
- nraf 4y agoEither that or it's a front