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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes: But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
         

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.


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