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Re:Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” by dalbasal on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:10PM (#16503449)
I think Taleb is from Hammurabi's general neighborhood, by birth. I wonder if he already knew some dialect of Assyrian/Babylonian/Aramaic already. They're still used, mostly liturgically.
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Re:Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” by simonebrunozzi on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:51PM (#16505038)
I think he has a strong Lebanese background.
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