What gives me the impression that one of the descendants owns a few gas stations in New Jersey?
Asides
When you invest/trade, you buy & you sell; you increase/decrease; you get stopped out/take profits; you revise dynamically; you protect your tail; you walk away when needed to clear your mind. Bitcoiners & amoebas think in binary form… & are convinced others must be doing so. 2) And the minute someone defines herself or himself as a “bitcoiner” like a national identity it becomes an irreversible ideological committment not an investment strategy. Actually it is a religion. You “belong” to a group of amoebas.
Gratitude to @JeffBezos : my Saga. 1) As an author, I owe Amazon. Before, publishers were subservient to bookstores & their book placement. So when I wrote FBR *on my own terms* it was a problem: fictional characters, math discussions, philosophy… Was it popularization? No. 2) Was it about finance? No. It’s about what? So no publisher. I found a weird outfit who accepted at ½ price. Bookstores were good at ignoring my work: why should a neighborhood bookstore isn’t interested in higher things, just moving books. Amazon did not have rigid shelves! 3) There is this romantic idea of the neighborhood bookstore out to save literature, social life, & thinking: these people survive on books that have a specific public. So the “monster” that drove them bust allowed me to get an audience I would’ve never had. 4)The worst were standard book editors whose employment is to make sure no author ever write on her/his own terms. They lectured me about “focus” (Me: “is your business to focus or to sell books”?). I exist (as an author) bec. of AMZN. Stores did everything to make me extinct. 5) By the time I moved FBR to RH the scenery had changed. I was lucky earlier publ went kaput. Publishers adapt. Not bookstores. It remains that the publishers model is to sell a lot of books quickly, then repeat.The notion of Lindy books is rare & hard to account for.
A whole generation of Brits who thought their civilization must connect to the lands of olive oil. Actually they only felt alive in the Med.
This BTC monocellular fellow @danheld is comparing the PRICE of gold to the Mean deviation of BTC. [Note the volatility of Gold is pretty minimal, even including the Hunt episode] He has 125,000 followers. #BTC is a magnet for idiots. Another 500, 2000, or 5000 years?
I’ve been getting rid of my BTC. Why? A currency is never supposed to be more volatile than what you buy & sell with it. You can’t price goods in BTC In that respect, it’s a failure (at least for now). It was taken over by Covid denying sociopaths w/the sophistication of amoebas 2) The other problem BTC Protozoa don’t get: the appeal of a cryptocurrency depends on some opacity, its ability to facilitate tax fraud and money laundering. You can anonymize a gold coin by remelting it. You can rework a spoon. BTC is more tractable than cash. #Lindy BTC Volatility is not dropping with time/at higher price, exactly what you don’t don’t need.
A bothersome fact is that most of the hundreds of mummies sequenced show Anatolian/Levantine ancestry. Not local. Could be that the ruling class throughout the earlier dynasties were colonizers? This continued until Mehmet Ali who was Albanian.
Armenian cover. Somehow I care the most about translations into: Greek, Armenian, Italian, Levantine, (plus Turkish, Maltese, Persian …)
I managed to copy the format… IKEA-Billy, nothing more complicated: shelves must be white and unintrusive. Bookshelves is not a piece of furniture: books are.
Random shelves sort
