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IMO its up to you. I recommend everyone hold some. To RK's comments its still early. So if you're buying like me to hold & not trade. Then now is fine because the 4-40 year trajectory has a very high likely hood of going up and to the right. I was buying at the previous highs. I was buying at the previous lows. If you're a guy who cant stomach volatility, then maybe wait for the next sell off. which will happen. If you're like me and you dont care about next months values. Then now is fine.

I was a totally against it. Then decided to not just follow the hater crowd but buy a little and play with the technology for myself just so i could more confidently say yea this is useless and a scam. Tasted the koolaid and said this is pretty awesome. Outside of my retirement accounts also largely because of growth its now 30% of my portfolio. Other chains while very cool do not hold the same value as BTC to me. BTC is the only truly decentralized coin/token.

Advocating

+1 - take it over to the crypto currency thread and it will die.

Eh fair point. guess i went on side tangent since original statement was about using LMM's to translate and essentially I'm referring to LMM's translating my shitty language learning and carrying on a conversation. I havent tried it but i know Samsung rolled out the live translate options with thier AI's in the most recent galaxy models. I think S23 and newer. maybe s22. I think if you have the galaxy earbuds you can do live translate as well. Learning is cooler to me than letting a robot do all the work.

I dunno about universal translators. But ive been playing with learning chinese for like 9 months. My learning style is that i want to dive in face first. I tried utilizing Hello talk to find language partners and had a few that lasted a while. But hellotalk has gotten more and more like a freaking dating app than a language partner app. The other day i wondered i wonder if theres any AI chatbots for language. There are and they are still pretty early stage, but man ive enjoyed looking for and playing with the 2-3 ive found so far. You can have a fake person to talk to in your chosen language. They are the most patient personality on the planet. They are available any time anywhere, No time zone gaps! You can tell them in your native language what you want to practice and how to correct you when you get it wrong. Then they will ask you repeated questions and coach you. Weaknesses that I'm sure are being addressed. For me in Chinese its struggling with some of the language recognition. Sometimes it gets what i say wrong in the voice recognition. I know my chinese is bad but i know that I know how to say some sentences and when I say them right and the app still gets them wrong i know its wrong not me. But still, this kind of stuff will only get better.

I absolutely loved the section in Guy Spiers book about social compounding. Such a great concept and he accredits much of his success to the exercise of thank you notes and gratitude.

I would have, but no i did not. I know the girls family and they likely do not have exchange to offload it back to USD. But adoption will happen.

I've stopped debating crypto on this forum. But i am still a big advocate and everytime i talk to anyone about it. It is not from a position of hey join in this fad cuz im making money. Its from a positition of BTC is better. This weekend my wife and I went out and had a young babysitter. My wife was like I need to stop and get cash to pay the baby sitter and I said tell her to open a BTC wallet and ill pay her in BTC. The reality is the kid could open a wallet in 10 mins and I could send her $2 or $2M dollars without a bank or anyone else in the middle literally like i was handing her cash. The government cant print more of this currency and devalue it. People cant take it from me if I dont allow them. Its just all around better.... Get in the boat or dont i dont care. But yes, the earlier you are in the boat the better off youll be as youll have more of the infinitely divisible pie.

LOL thanks for the laugh!

Just finished season one of Goliath. Enjoyed it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687880/

This is how I view copying. For people on this forum, other forums, and 13F's, and personal friends. I have mental profiles of people who I respect. I profile their risk tolerances, specialties, valuation methods, style of investing, and holding periods. Then this allows me to short cut the vetting process on companies that these people own. One of the things I love about investing is it's a lot like poker. You can have the same winning hand and how you play the hand really dictates your returns. Even our shameless cloning friend Mohnish, that everyone on this board LOVES lol, acknowledges this. Listen to his things about him and Spier with the Fiat Chrysler investment and holding periods and such. Spier got a much better return because he didnt sell when Mohnish did. In one of the other threads. I dont remember who it was that was lamenting on another thread on COBF. But they talked about how they had been regularly trading in and out of apple over the past 10-15+ years and if they had just bought and held it they would have had substantially better returns.

Any other Alone fans on here? My wife and I are huge fans of Alone on the history channel. This season (11) has been awesome. Solid contestants and an area that isn't terrible for food procurement. I call it the real life "hunger" games.

To disliking GOT ending ******spoilers dont read if you intend to watch GOT and havent seen the ending **** my opinion. didnt hate it but was disappointed. I think the hate is in line with this. It was far to rushed. Dany's de-evolution from the savior queen breaker of chains etc... to mad queen takes place over like 2-3 episodes and felt like it came suddenly out of nowhere. You have a 7 season build up of the enemy behind the wall and then that enemy is defeated in 1 episode in a single battle by a single person. As a fan of the books this was huge disappointment to me I wanted to see the White walkers destroy 2/3s or more of westeros before humanity pulled its act together. Or in George RR martin style just screw westeros and the dead win lol. take your dragons back across the sea. euron killing a dragon 1 shot. They dont give enough character development to euron in the show. but in the books hes crazy.... so i dont question his ability but i felt like it was lacking in build up. I could go on. But the sentiment i think you would find accross most fans is that it was rushed. So yea i dont hate how it ended i just wish it took at least another season to develop it and get it there instead of saying Bam heres how it ends.