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   by otrooso 16y ago

   When I read the Black Swan by Taleb the crucial point was to realize how weak we are when we rely on financial experts. Be careful, bad regulations can be opening the door for new creative thinking. For example in Spain the new accounting s
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   by otrooso 16y ago

   I think a hacker Questionnaire should be more appropriate here. But this is not new, for example there is "my road to Lisp" that explains the motivation and context when learning Lisp. HN is like an evolving Questionnaire filled with the te
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   by otrooso 16y ago

   Sorry to say this, but "A tale of two cultures" is a very glorious title for something like reddit and digg. Humanistic and scientific cultures, the profound debate about how we marry them and how to control complexity and compartmentaliza
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   by otrooso 16y ago

   The elevator fallacy follows. If you put a lot of sensors in a city you find many weird things, as there is not a prior hypothesis about what you are testing what you see as weird is not so much. In order to say that "people use the left e