Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

The French Writer Edmond About, Who Visited Greece In 1832, A Dozen Years After Its Independence, Reports How Peasants Struggled With The Metric System As It Was Completely Unnatural To Them And Stuck To Ottoman Standards Instead.

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