Sentences with phrase «swan events because»

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The event was supposed to take place at the Agustin Olivencia Community Center on Swan Street, but people who work there told WBEN Wednesday morning that they weren't aware Nixon's visit was part of a campaign, and would not allow the event to happen because they do not host political events.

«We may observe more black swan events in animal populations in the future because of these climate extremes,» he says.

I love the line about real vs imaginary because I think it so encompasses a common wardrobe problem that most of us (or at least I) have — that we shop for some fictional self that swans about at formal events all the time, or that lives in a super cold icy tundra half the year, and a really glamorous resort destination the other half.

The reason being that it is a black swan investment strategy that helps insulate you from black swan events, because he argues that no one can predict the future (I agree) and In his book The Black Swan, he advocates the Barbell strategy, putting 85 % to 90 % of your investments in ultra-safe cash and the remaining in a large number of highly speculative bets (eg venture capital style investmenswan investment strategy that helps insulate you from black swan events, because he argues that no one can predict the future (I agree) and In his book The Black Swan, he advocates the Barbell strategy, putting 85 % to 90 % of your investments in ultra-safe cash and the remaining in a large number of highly speculative bets (eg venture capital style investmenswan events, because he argues that no one can predict the future (I agree) and In his book The Black Swan, he advocates the Barbell strategy, putting 85 % to 90 % of your investments in ultra-safe cash and the remaining in a large number of highly speculative bets (eg venture capital style investmenSwan, he advocates the Barbell strategy, putting 85 % to 90 % of your investments in ultra-safe cash and the remaining in a large number of highly speculative bets (eg venture capital style investments).

If the eventual event precipitating a sell off is a black swan, but we can expect black swans because of the market's overvaluation, is it still a black swan?

Black Swans exist because human beings largely assume that events in the unverse are random, that over time, «things will average out».

Now an event where an ET from a civilisation with largely superior technology would teleport to the control room and stop the main pump while letting the reactor in full power would be a black swan because teleportation has never been considered for safety design.

If it is the latter, however, the mere use of «black swans» to label their theory is confusing, to say the least, because the «black swan» example is a well - known metaphor used by Popper and other philosophers of science when explaining the occurrence of events that go against the predictions of well - established theories / laws.

Therefore the missed prediction was because of a Black Swan event.»

To treat these events as Black Swans, therefore, is to repose continued trust in the opinion of a group of people who ought long ago to have forfeit it, simply because they were largely successful in shouting down dissent.

It seems any event can be a «Black Swan» because any counter-arguments can be dismissed a post-hoc rationalization.

Gold is commonly held because it is used as protection against black swan economic events.