#Ticketmaster sucks! They only provide email support which promises "12-24 hours updates" but I've been sitting on my urgent ticket for 6 days now. They don't even have chat support! Phone sends you to their faq page. It's ridiculous!
Afghanistan
20 years of nation-building
2,312 US soldiers killed, 20k + wounded
$2.4 trillion spent -- $114,285 for every person in the country, at the time we arrived
Collapses immediately upon the start of withdrawal
@nntaleb In its current shape, cryptos are a "techno-utopian communist" idea. They promise brotherhood of men, freedom, etc. Yet just like communism it's not workable in the real world. For some it'll take 70 years to realize that. Marxist ideals are Lindy, implementations not so much.
As usual, I'll be deactivating my Twitter account for Lent, starting Wednesday (and returning intermittently on Sundays and feasts).
If you can't find my account, don't assume I've been banished --- though I could also, separately, have been banished.
New blog post: Here is my proposal on how to fix Section 230. "Mend it, Don't End It." First Amendment case law suggests a promising path to peace for Twitter and Facebook. @jack and Zuck should embrace it.
https://t.co/dUH2c5qxNl
@nntaleb QAnon guy. QAnon vandalized the Republican party. They can vandalize the Democratic party too. I personally know well-educated QAnon followers who vote Democrat and are anti-vaxers. QAnon = no trust in the system + social media https://t.co/oCWlSH47AY
Another part of my childhood gone. RIP. #Maradona#MaradonaRIP
Going to watch Emir Kusturica's excellent "Maradona" documentary one more time this weekend. He had many personal issues but he also had principles.
“When there were problems with the electricity in Armenia, the opera was heated with emergency generators for 24 hours, while it remained cold in Parliament.” - Charles Aznavour
"Happiness; we don’t know what it means, how to measure it, or how to reach it, but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
The 2020 US Presidential election far exceeded 2 standard deviations of historical voter turnout over the past ~100 years.
A statistically improbable outcome.
For comparison, both the 2012 and 2016 elections with Obama were well within a single standard deviation.