tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post4558931923765965735..comments2024-03-28T10:56:52.861-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: More marvels from spaceDavid Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-90000523953170860342018-09-05T16:41:08.521-07:002018-09-05T16:41:08.521-07:00onward
onwardonward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-77087187867651678922018-09-05T15:01:49.216-07:002018-09-05T15:01:49.216-07:00LarryHart: re electoral-vote.com - I'd really...LarryHart: re electoral-vote.com - I'd really welcome a 'modifier' that takes local arrangements into account (that is, assuming states with majority Republican legislatures will weigh slightly more heavily than polls suggest). That makes me more skeptical about Nelson v. Scott (FL) and McCaskill v. Hawley (MO)...'barely' Dem? We'll see where the chips fall in November. But I can still hope...<br /><br />Their methodology weights polls using their own secret sauce, but pollsters have been getting it wrong most reliably in states with consistently Republican-leaning legislatures, like PA, FL, MO. Of course, it could be that the polls are right and Reps are cheating in hard-to-detect places (like rural America) - but without evidence, such claims are spurious, and better to assume that polls are difficult, and models fallible.<br /><br />That said, Illinois 6th district (Cook County & friends) remains a Republican tossup district closer to you than any Senate race...and while our host is right long-term about hitting the state races hard, that in no way means neglecting the congressional races, where we have the best chance possible of blocking budgetary idiocy (not to mention the hope of indictments and actual investigations). Back from vacation, I'm itching to go knock some doors, call some phones, and get to work - and rouse any fellow-minded Americans to do the same.donzelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991849781932619746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-19494251099343418242018-09-05T13:05:12.819-07:002018-09-05T13:05:12.819-07:00Just returned from Italy (and wandering accidental...Just returned from Italy (and wandering accidentally into Galileo's tomb!), it is interesting to look at Dr. Brin's premise from his 'pro-science' posts. <br /><br />In all cultures up through the Renaissance, soldiers going to war might choose tokens - Imperial eagles, blessed images or statues of Madonnas - as banners under which to march. Amazingly, Catholic crusaders could sack a Christian city to pay Venetian debts in the 4th Crusade - carrying off an Orthodox Madonna as their own icon, and later invoking its protection against plague.<br /><br />These thoughts on Titan - "So put on a Mylar sweater, bring some oxygen, and enjoy pioneering to Titan!" - mesh with Vonnegut's own scifi proposal (that all human civilization might be the accidental byproduct of an effort to produce spare parts for an alien craft), and yet, even if so, what of it? The universe is vast and beautiful. (So is Italy, by the way...)donzelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991849781932619746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-79171156526762549282018-09-05T12:49:47.799-07:002018-09-05T12:49:47.799-07:00Alfred Differ:
"They seem to function as deb...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />"They seem to function as debt that you can be reasonably sure someone will make good on. With the US dollar in any case, you can be reasonably sure enough that you don't have to care who individually owes the debt. When that expectation that someone will make good breaks down, that's when (to me) it stops "working" as currency."<br /><br />The entire trade system is based on this. You have a reasonable expectation that your employer will pay you later for work you do now. They have a reasonable expectation that they work/widgets/or whatever they produce will be traded for something with a customer. We ALL do this and I argue it is a big part of what makes us modern humans distinct from the other hominids. We trade outside our kin groups on these 'reasonable' expectations.<br /></i><br /><br />Well, the employer situation isn't quite the same in that there is a specific entity who owes you the paycheck. If the employer refuses to pay you, someone else isn't going to step in and do it. Instead, you have to fight it out with the employer in court (or binding arbitration).<br /><br />The widget example is closer to what I was talking about, though not exactly the same. A company produces goods with an expectation that someone will buy them, but if the product is a dud (or turns out to cause cancer or sterility) and no one <b>does</b> buy it, the company has not been cheated.<br /><br />I take your point, though, that we function under expectations that might not be realized, but we trust in them anyway because the system seems to be working. That's where I take issue with the Randroids who insist that fiat currency is valueless because it could all disappear if people stop having faith in it. That's a true statement, but also an irrelevant one. As long as people <b>do</b> continue to keep faith with the system, the value is very real and tangible. The pizza I bought last night with a portion of my paycheck was real food. If the value of the dollar drops to zero tomorrow, I still got a pizza for the dollars I possessed last night. <b>That</b> value isn't dependent on future performance.<br /><br />You put "'reasonable'" in quotes before "expectations", perhaps to indicate that the expectation is not quite so reasonable after all, but I'd say it's just as reasonable as the expectation that gravity will work tomorrow. I can't prove either assertion for sure, but life seems to work out if I make the assumption moreso than if I question it. It's true that people <b>might</b> suddenly stop cooperating in the economy, but that's a way different thing from saying that the dollar is valueless right now.<br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-79829450140592928892018-09-05T06:16:55.017-07:002018-09-05T06:16:55.017-07:00For anyone who cares, www.electoral-vote.com goes ...For anyone who cares, www.electoral-vote.com goes live today with their polling data showing the state of the upcoming Senate race. Before Trump, this would have been the main purpose of the site, and the small news items just a bit of extra reason to come by almost every day. They wouldn't have even been updating the site between 2016 and now.<br /><br />Anyway, it's a bit wonky, but if you're interested in how they do what they do, they explain it in great detail here:<br /><br />https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2018/Senate/Maps/Sep05.html#item-1Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26530248043726203782018-09-05T06:02:25.035-07:002018-09-05T06:02:25.035-07:00@Cari Burstein,
When I was in middle school in th...@Cari Burstein,<br /><br />When I was in middle school in the early 1970s, our only options were French and Spanish, and at that time, there didn't seem to be any particular reason to favor one over the other. I took French because my father knew some French. Two years later, when it was my brother's turn, it already seemed as if Spanish was the preferred second language for an American to know *, at least in a city like Chicago.<br /><br />Now, my daughter had exposure to Mandarin in fourth friggin' grade, and I can't even keep track of all the options available to her in high school (she's been taking German for 4 years).<br /><br />* Fun fact: my brother went to Nicaragua to see what the fuss was all about in the mid 80s. While there, he learned how little use his grade school Spanish was for conversational speaking in Central America. Luckily, as he put it, there was an Italian-speaker along on the tour who could, as he put it, "translate the Spanish I was speaking into Spanish the natives could understand."Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-69030281244789368282018-09-05T01:33:19.448-07:002018-09-05T01:33:19.448-07:00What languages are taught in schools in the US var...What languages are taught in schools in the US vary a lot by the location and also the type of school (ritzier schools tend to have more options). When I grew up in the LA area, almost everyone took Spanish, and French was the only alternative (primarily for those that already knew Spanish). But Spanish was very much a practical language given how many Spanish speakers there were there. These days I think languages like Mandarin are more commonly available than they were in my high school days. French I think has always been a popular language option, especially in areas nearer the French speaking parts of Canada.Cari Bursteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05812444306433659243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-39426136468566579072018-09-04T19:54:27.632-07:002018-09-04T19:54:27.632-07:00Wawwww. ¡An astronaut saved the space station with...Wawwww. ¡An astronaut saved the space station with a finger!. Haa, je je je je jee. No doubt that will lead to many jokes.Winter7https://www.blogger.com/profile/16829856315044551289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-30893712870975992672018-09-04T19:40:51.925-07:002018-09-04T19:40:51.925-07:00Alfred Differ:
Yes, certainly future space compan...Alfred Differ: <br />Yes, certainly future space companies will need to create a lot of technology based on in situ resource utilization. I guess that will be the key to start sending work teams to such distant places. Undoubtedly, the future workers of the asteroid belt will be happy to find in Ceres some coffee shops that have fresh salads, from automatic greenhouses sent in advance and Pubs with seaweed beer from the oceans of Ceres. And if the seaweed beer is served by nice "fembots", that would be fantastic.<br /><br />And speaking of "fembots"; I still believe that in the nucleus of Ceres there is "magma". But I can be wrong. Therefore, we must send a drilling machine, to investigate the existence of "magma".<br />And I must say that Ceres is the ideal place to install a secret base ... Ooops, I meant; a colony...<br />:)<br />Winter7https://www.blogger.com/profile/16829856315044551289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-52831385917955487562018-09-04T19:33:22.942-07:002018-09-04T19:33:22.942-07:00Douglas Fenton:
Thank you, Mr. Fenton. I am happy ...Douglas Fenton:<br />Thank you, Mr. Fenton. I am happy that my writings in Spanish can be translated into French more easily than the translation from English into French. But I just promised to be more concise, which means that I will not be able to send my translated texts to English, accompanied by the original texts in Spanish. Certainly, sending the text in two languages greatly increases my comments. (Although the advantage was that, if there was a misunderstanding, you could make a more accurate translation with the help of a relative or neighbor who knew Spanish. (I think that currently the Spanish language is taught in all Highschools) (what a waste of time , they should teach the children French or Mandarin, in those languages is the future of business, not in the languages of nations ruled by evil dictators) (I do not mean Costa Rica, which is an exception)<br />Ups. I think I'm overdoing it.<br />Well, something quick:<br /><br />Now, the Russians say that their space capsule was sabotaged. ¡What a coincidence! Because it happens that I was going to tell you that it was the Russians who sabotaged the capsule. Not to gain any consideration when private ferries replace Russian ships, but, rather, to try to verify the reaction capabilities of other countries to a projectile attack.<br />And I have no doubt that the Russians carried out the sabotage. An astronaut managed to cover the leak without problems with a finger. That indicates something: the ripped edges of the hole were bent outwards, so that the finger could perfectly cover the hole.<br />If it had been a micro-meteorite causing the hole, then the peaks of the ripped edge would be inward, so it would not be easy to easily seal the hole. Therefore, it was sabotage. But the sabotage was done by the Russians. Why should Westerners risk the entire space station? How would it be possible not to assume that drilling the thin aluminum shell of the Russian ship would not be followed by a major rip, with catastrophic consequences? Only Russians have the irrationality to commit reckless acts when they assume they can gain an advantage, in this case: tactical information on emergency measures in the event of an orbital battle with kinetic weapons.<br /><br />Link:<br /><br />https://phys.org/news/2018-09-russia-space-station-leak-deliberate.html<br />Winter7https://www.blogger.com/profile/16829856315044551289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-72548200026279565772018-09-04T19:31:25.195-07:002018-09-04T19:31:25.195-07:00David Brin:
Excuse me for my excesses, Doctor Brin...David Brin:<br />Excuse me for my excesses, Doctor Brin. Certainly, my writings are sometimes like graffiti on the walls of a blog.<br />I will try to be more concise in my writings. If in the long term I forget that I should not be excessive; Remind me that I must be concise, because certainly, being focused on a style is an art that I never easily master.Winter7https://www.blogger.com/profile/16829856315044551289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-29388432444112426532018-09-04T13:26:35.386-07:002018-09-04T13:26:35.386-07:00@winter7 | you are not sleeping long enough
Heh. ...@winter7 | <i>you are not sleeping long enough</i><br /><br />Heh. I'm on the US west coast slightly west of Los Angeles. I think the clock that is listed under our posts reflects accurately for me. Sleep time for me ranges between midnight and 8 AM.<br /><br />I can occasionally post from work during the day and like to read what people most here in the evening. Participation is rare on the weekends.<br /><br />If it looks like I'm not sleeping, though, that would be incorrect. I type fast (100+ wpm) and sometimes don't know when to shut up. The result is I can pour out words rapidly. Whether they make sense is debatable. 8)<br /><br />If you see long back to back posts separated by a few minutes, odds are I typed them in a word processor and then pasted them over. If there are lots of spelling/grammar mistakes, odds are I didn't.<br /><br />Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-46495799209056915462018-09-04T12:58:18.346-07:002018-09-04T12:58:18.346-07:00@Larry | someone will make good on
The entire t...@Larry | <i> someone will make good on </i><br /><br />The entire trade system is based on this. You have a reasonable expectation that your employer will pay you later for work you do now. They have a reasonable expectation that they work/widgets/or whatever they produce will be traded for something with a customer. We ALL do this and I argue it is a big part of what makes us modern humans distinct from the other hominids. We trade outside our kin groups on these 'reasonable' expectations.<br /><br />In 2007, some of those expectations broke down. Behind it all were some people who were trading fraudulently, some more who were trading blindly, and many more who were trading blissfully unaware of the shock to confidence that was about to arrive. Most people would not have understood that bonds rated AAA being downgraded to 'junk' could have such a big impact, let alone realized that the instruments they thought of as 'currency' could wobble and collapse. What a mess, though. The bond ratings agencies were in bed with investment banks. Some CEO's could collect bonuses of $1B if they performed well or $500M if they didn't. <br /><br />In hindsight, though, there WAS a statistical indicator that showed the danger. Insurance policies on a particular debt instrument were priced at a level that suggested people selling them expected government bailouts for FreddieMac and FannieMae if there were large scale failures. Reading the fine print from those two institutions, though, showed that they were NOT supposed to be bailed out. They stated clearly they were not backed by the US Treasury. The insurance policy sellers obviously disagreed. That is a recipe for disaster because the whole credit system associated with real property was priced wrong.<br /><br />None of that sounds like currency concerns, right? It is, though, because the confidence of USD buyers depends on what they believe about the US government. The ENTIRE SYSTEM depends on our confidence no matter how much people believe in attaching value to other 'objective' measures.<br /><br />It's a wonder it works at all, but it does... because we are human. 8)Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-58761676004556219812018-09-04T12:30:10.102-07:002018-09-04T12:30:10.102-07:00Alfred Differ:
Specifically, they are debt instru...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />Specifically, they are debt instruments. Every dollar in your pocket is an IOU that you turn into something else when you trade them. They aren't IOU's that specify exactly who owes the debt...<br /></i><br /><br />They seem to function as debt that you can be reasonably sure <b>someone</b> will make good on. With the US dollar in any case, you can be reasonably sure enough that you don't have to care who individually owes the debt. When that expectation that someone will make good breaks down, that's when (to me) it stops "working" as currency.<br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23122700451752903972018-09-04T12:19:42.761-07:002018-09-04T12:19:42.761-07:00@Larry | Venezuela's currency is a poor curren...@Larry | Venezuela's currency is a poor currency. Own it and you'll be poor in short order. What it IS, though, is an excellent example of the concerns libertarians have regarding fiat currencies. The thieves running Venezuela likely have their wealth stashed in other currencies. Anything else would do... even oil.<br /><br />@Darrel E | What qualifies as 'bad' depends on your investment outlook. For us schmoes who use the currency, we benefit mostly from low volatility. If relative prices drift up or down slowly, our markets tend to adjust with no real harm to us. If there is a secular trend downward, though, we face a long term problem. That IS happening with the US dollar because we tend to borrow a lot of money as a nation. People willing to trade for USD's tend to value them according to our national debt.<br /><br />Currencies aren't just similar to investment instruments. They ARE investment instruments. Specifically, they are debt instruments. Every dollar in your pocket is an IOU that you turn into something else when you trade them. They aren't IOU's that specify exactly who owes the debt, though some will point at the Federal Reserve. That's the difference.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-88728002956447732562018-09-04T11:56:56.775-07:002018-09-04T11:56:56.775-07:00Alfred,
I'm ignorant about currencies and cry...Alfred,<br /><br />I'm ignorant about currencies and cryto-currencies <i>but</i> all the things you point out as being characteristics of currency contrary to Larry's arguments (in other words, characteristics that Larry associates with investment instruments rather than currencies) are <i>bad</i> characteristics. I think I understand what you are saying. That currencies are quite similar to investment instruments. But I think I agree with Larry that volatility is not a desirable trait in a currency. Not in the context of creating and maintaining an equitable, stable and relatively fair economy. No, for that I think you want steadiness and reliability. I can't think of any positives to waking up one morning and finding that my income now has 1/2 the buying power it had yesterday. At least not for me or most of the rest of society.<br /><br />I understand that trading in currency is a big business. But what does that mean? Humans will take any opportunity to make money. That it occurs isn't particularly indicative of whether it is good or not.Darrell Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054311762477388637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84869130713092488332018-09-04T11:23:12.800-07:002018-09-04T11:23:12.800-07:00Alfred Differ:
What some of you get hung up on is...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />What some of you get hung up on is the belief that 'currency' implies 'low volatility'. History shows the error. So do current events in Venezuela.<br /></i><br /><br />A subtle distinction. It's not that currency implies low volatility, but that low volatility is a characteristic of a currency that works well over the long term. Your example makes that point rather than arguing against it. Surely, you didn't mean to tout Venezuela as an example of a <b>well-functioning</b> currency?Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-22651668250957493212018-09-04T11:19:46.310-07:002018-09-04T11:19:46.310-07:00Alfred Differ:
It won't be bitcoin deciding a...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />It won't be bitcoin deciding anything. <br /></i><br /><br />Ok, the <b>promoters</b> of bitcoin.<br /><br /><i><br />That's up to us like you described with your cruise ship experience. 8)<br /></i><br /><br />I actually did learn my lesson. Whenever I'm in a position to gamble now, I decide ahead of time whether I'm playing for profit or for "more games". A few years after my earlier story, I was in New Orleans for a conference, and I visited a gambling boat, determined to play for profit. The very first slot machine I put money in--I'm thinking a dollar slot--paid off $200. I immediately picked up and left. It was disappointing to do so in the sense of not getting a lot of playing time in, but that's not what I was there for--that time, anyway.<br /><br />I'm not picking a side between playing for profit vs playing for free games. I've done both at different times. The point is not to try to do both <b>together</b>.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63562547204820805592018-09-04T11:08:31.483-07:002018-09-04T11:08:31.483-07:00"Did you know of the Catholic bishop who stro...<i>"Did you know of the Catholic bishop who stroked Ariana Grande's chest in public; in the celebration of a funeral?<br />They see him! If that bishop does that in public, it is evident that he privately abuses young girls."</i><br /><br />Winter, two major points:<br /><br />1) That wasn't a "Catholic bishop"; that was a Protestant preacher. Not sure what Aretha Franklin's religious belief was, but he seemed pretty Baptist to me.<br /><br />2) He wasn't "stroking her chest". There was minor contact with the side of one breast; from the video, it would appear that the pastor, like many of his brethren, is a "hugger" - the sort of person who just naturally hugs others as a standard greeting. And one thing I've learned over the years about huggers is that they just don't understand that some of us don't <i>like</i> being touched like that. It appears in the video that Ms Grande was trying to pull away from the hug while still being the polite "good girl" society has taught her to be, in so doing she turned slightly, and the pastor, who wasn't expecting a hug to be rejected, just didn't realize where his hand was about to be.<br /><br />So many problems in our world that arise from simple misunderstandings...Jon S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13585842845661267920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-1113420710691129202018-09-04T10:58:10.735-07:002018-09-04T10:58:10.735-07:00@Larry | It won't be bitcoin deciding anything...@Larry | It won't be bitcoin deciding anything. That's up to us like you described with your cruise ship experience. 8)<br /><br />Personally, I see it as a pure speculation at this point. The volatility of the speculation depends on bitcoin's traction as a trading currency. The value of the speculation depends on supply and demand.<br /><br />If everyone wants to buy, price will go up because supply is limited and throttled.<br />If lots of people use it for trade, price will stabilize because they'll treat it like a tool.<br /><br />If lots of people want to sell, price will go down.<br />If lots of people use it as a way to gamble, price will be volatile.<br /><br />There are at least two coordinates for describing what happens to price. Since bitcoin is traded relative to fiat currencies and in regional markets, there are likely many more than two coordinates.<br /><br />What some of you get hung up on is the belief that 'currency' implies 'low volatility'. History shows the error. So do current events in Venezuela.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-24997472486124299922018-09-04T10:08:48.342-07:002018-09-04T10:08:48.342-07:00Jim Wright (stonekettle station) has a new post up...Jim Wright (stonekettle station) has a new post up. Caveat Emptor, I haven't read it yet:<br /><br />http://www.stonekettle.com/Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45019755265232193412018-09-04T10:06:45.730-07:002018-09-04T10:06:45.730-07:00Alfred Differ:
Whether one sees current crypto-cu...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />Whether one sees current crypto-currency prices as evidence of a collapse or as evidence of matching supply and demand depends more on your view regarding economic models than on anything to do with the 'currencies' themselves. <br /></i><br /><br />We've discussed this before, and I don't remember exactly where you fell on the topic, but to me, something like bitcoin has to decide whether it's an investment vehicle or a currency. When bitcoin's value skyrockets, that is often presented as evidence of its value as currency, which I just don't see. It's value as an investment? Sure, but that's a different thing (Heh). For a currency, I'd expect price stability to be more important than appreciation.<br /><br />Trying to have bitcoin be both things reminds me of gambling on a cruise ship, when I couldn't decide whether my winnings were supposed to be profit or "additional lives". Oscillating between the two, I naturally lost my entire stake.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-57404209432058674272018-09-04T09:59:57.898-07:002018-09-04T09:59:57.898-07:00@winter7 | Oh... forgot to add a bit of non-snark ...@winter7 | Oh... forgot to add a bit of non-snark about NASA.<br /><br />They won't be the entity creating colonization technology. It will be the private firms doing it and it will start with robot missions working out industrial processes. Our robots don't need as much shelter as we do, but they do need some. To avoid carrying everything with them all the time, they will learn ISRU.<br /><br />Things will expand from there.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-25682676035375784572018-09-04T09:52:08.019-07:002018-09-04T09:52:08.019-07:00@winter7 | Whether one sees current crypto-currenc...@winter7 | Whether one sees current crypto-currency prices as evidence of a collapse or as evidence of matching supply and demand depends more on your view regarding economic models than on anything to do with the 'currencies' themselves. People do stupid things with their money occasionally. This is especially true of the young and part of being human. Fortunately, some get lucky and become very rich. Others live long enough to learn from their errors and if all they lost was their savings, they'll become the old people who warn against these things... to the young who might occasionally listen. 8)<br /><br />There are some outright fraudulent efforts out there regarding these currencies. Anyone who didn't see that coming needs to make friends with an old person.<br /><br />For example, the second largest crypto-currency trading by volume is one I suspect is a fraud. It's called 'tether' and claims to be backed by US dollars held in reserve. I doubt the existence of that reserve. I suspect they have insurance instead if they have anything at all.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-71224455820871353652018-09-04T01:30:40.405-07:002018-09-04T01:30:40.405-07:00Winter7,
No quiero juzgarlo pero noté que a vece...Winter7,<br /><br /> No quiero juzgarlo pero noté que a veces la traducción de Google no da un resultado claro y que puede dañar su argumentación. Hablo francés y cuando pienso en francés, lo que dices todo se vuelve visible y fácil de entender. En el futuro, traduciré el español al francés de Google para evitar malentendidos. Realmente aprecio tus comentarios aquí y espero que estés aquí a menudo.Deuxglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03488986307291616948noreply@blogger.com