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At least they are biased consistently and they truly believe they are not. When you agree to say and protect a set of views and facts carefully described in a contract... it's another thing.
Gosh, just read his first book. Black Swan. Where he shows that before Europeans discovered black swans in Australia it was a perfect "educated guess" to assume all swans are white.
It was one of Pascal main features in tape drive era: single pass compiler.
Taleb doesn't mean IQ doesn't test something real. He says this "something real" is irrelevant.
I thought free software was about freedom, not how to monetize it. You can never trust a service - only your own hardware (it's not quite possible with modern mass-market CPU though, only on IBM Power or some dummy MCU or even FPGA-based RISC/MIPS/whatever ) with free software on it. When did Linux become about cloud and containers, not about desktop?
What other languages do you think "made it right" ?
And if foo(z) is consuming a generator somehow (e.g. it's next(g)) then you can't call it twice without side effects.
One of the richest companies in the world with very good engineers made a supercomplex engine which nobody understands and looks like they cannot make it better and we use it happily as given - something's wrong here.
Polish is a Slavic language and Latin letters are not suitable for it. I'm Russian who speaks English and a bit French and I can understand some Polish words (common roots etc.) like dobrze, dzień dobry, wiedzieć, znać, but I have no idea how to write them (looked up this words in Google Translate).
P.S. And I like to play Witcher III with Polish voices and Russian subtitles.
The whole article is a statistical fallacy. You should never compare "average" growth rates but extreme outcomes. What is the best possible outcome and the worst one in case of renting and in case of mortgage?
P.S. Read Nassim Taleb (and Daniel Kahneman) for the sake of reason.