Qual seria a tradução de "wishful thinking" em português?
O sentido é acreditar em uma hipótese ou previsão porque as consequências são agradáveis, e não por qualquer análise racional.
Por exemplo, um cara sinceramente acreditando que a ação da Tesla vai subir só porque ele investiu muito na Tesla, sem ver dados de produção, vendas, lucros etc.
A decentralized communications technology that does not depend on routing digital packets through a physical network of towers, gateways, microwave beams, and optical fibers. The text to be transmitted is encoded with a multiband frequency/amplitude modulation scheme, transmitted by molecular density waves, and decoded with a pair of miniaturized spectral filter banks implanted under the receiver's skull. Range up to tens of meters.
I don't know which is the biggest crime: naming a product or service with a word of the English language, like "upstream", or mentioning that product or service in an article without capitalizing, changing the font, or qualifiying it -- as "software from upstream" rather than "software from Upstream" or "software from the /upstream/ site".
I would bet a hundredth of a penny (my gambling limit) that Trump is not just illiquid (he does not have enough cash on hand to pay his immediate debts) but actually insolvent (his total assets are worth less than his total liabilities). While he has billions in real estate, he must have even bigger debts.
And I bet also that he has been in that situation for decades; and has been playing the game "borrow from Peter to pay Paul" all that time.
Hunter Biden is not really Joe Biden's son. He is a Chinese mole who infiltrated Joe's family 54 years ago, masquerading as an infant. (I got this information from a 1023 form whose existence the FBI refuses to acknowledge.)
Whatever his credentials, money is NOT based on debt. Archaeology shows that money existed independently of debt for tens of millennia before debt accounting and enforcement was even possible.
Anyway, what do those books have to say about crypto and national currencies?
Archaeology does provide plenty of evidence of trade in the Paleolithic. It also provides some evidence of commodity money. What evidence does is provide of debt?
🧵> The speculators -- people who buy gold with the intent of selling it later (as investment, "store of value", "hedge", contraband, etc) -- will affect the price, up or down, depending on whether they are net buyers or net sellers -- which can turn on a dime. But they alone cannot make something have lasting value, if there are no consumers. Which is the case of #Bitcoin💩...
Another big lie that bitcoiners and goldbugs must tell their marks. Which comes from "Austrian Economy". Which explains (1) why Austrian Economy went the way of the phlogiston, long ago, and (2) why goldbugs and bitcoiners dug it out of its grave.
Gold (like any commodity) has value because it has CONSUMERS - people who buy it to consume, rather than with intent to re-sell. 🧵>
🧵> The consumers of gold are mostly jewelers and decorators, and (to a smaller extent) industry. They buy some 2000 tons per year, more than half of what the miners dig out of the ground.
Those consumers demand gold because it is still the best metal for those purposes, with no competitors. It is that demand that makes gold valuable (and made it so since pre-history).
Actually, Florida and a couple of cities in the US tried to allow people to pay their taxes in bitcoin. Seems it was the idea of city officials who (like Joel Greenberg) happened to be bitcoin investors and/or users of its money laundering properties. And then there is El Salvador.
However, those initiatives mostly failed, for lack of interest and/or because bitcoin, as a currency, is a bad joke.
The Swiss franc, the Norwegian and Danish krones, and the Singapore dollar are among the most stable currencies in the world. Hardly because of their guns...
They own a lot of HAND guns, mostly because they get to take home their rifle after army service. Those guns would be of little use against an invasion by the US. If they were that powerful, why didn't they protect the citizens against the imposition of the franc by their government?
Come on, give up. "People accept the USD because they are forced to" is just a silly lie that crypto promoters tell their marks. 🧵>
No, no, no. For starters, crypto is a fiat currency too.
National currencies work as money because they have a central bank that stabilizes their value, AND have inflation of a few %/yr, AND other things.
A cryptocurrency, by definition, cannot have a central bank; and its buyers believe that its value will "eventually" go up! Up!! UP!!!. And those are only two of the reasons why cryptos cannot be money.
Trade, not debt, came first. Then money. Then debt.
Money is something that a person does not really want, but accepts in a trade because he trusts that he will be able to trade at another place and/or time for something that he really wants. It makes trade more effective, by removing the need to match needs and offers in trades.
Some countries have laws that prohibit the use of other national currencies in commerce. But not the US. Americans (like people everywhere else) use the USD because they trust it, not because they are forced to use it.
But yes, people trust the Fed because they trust that the US government will give it the resources it needs to do its job, and will not try to use it to "print money" for its budget.
Computer Science professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.Generally leftist (which means socialist outside the US), dreaming of democracy, justice, equality, disarmament, respect for science and human life, green energy, etc.Posts in Portuguese are about topics of mostly Brazilian interest.