RiffMcGriff

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   by RiffMcGriff 14y ago

   This reads like a badly-explained piece of Taleb's most recent book "Antifragility". Taleb specifically mentions most of the points mentioned, "the focus on teams" and "learning from past mistakes". Granted, these are obviously a huge part
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   by RiffMcGriff 14y ago

   I don't agree with this completely. The idea that Nassim Taleb talks about in Antifragility relates to the allocation across assets of 1/n, i.e. all have a uniform probability of 'being huge', since it's impossible to know at the time of i
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   by RiffMcGriff 14y ago

   The U.S. has no past of consistently placing among the 'best' in the world as measured by standardized tests. We are not 'losing competitiveness' due to these countries because they are smarter. The United States' emphasis on allowing mis