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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by patrickg_zill on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:03PM (#12917061)
Here, only a few minutes' reading, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI)

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211...

(not aimed at you)

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by pmarreck on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:12PM (#12917111)
Oh wow. Mr. Taleb sure knows how to put meat on the bone.

My most salient criticism is the slam against GMO's... I've done my own homework there and I haven't found solid evidence that there is something systematically wrong with all GMO's.

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by eruditely on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:16PM (#12917415)
Unless you read his paper. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf
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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by VodkaHaze on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @10:23PM (#12917447)
Nassim Taleb is like his own Markov chain text generator now
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