1/
If you CANNOT say when something is OVERVALUED
you CANNOT say you know how to VALUE it

If you buy $1.00 for cost of $0.50—it’s “riskless profit”
(undervalued arb, sure to gain)

If you buy $1.00 for cost of $2.00—it’s “riskless loss”
(overvalued foolishness, sure to lose)
2/
If you cannot VALUE something you do not know if it is UNDERVALUED or OVERVALUED

and thus cannot know if you are taking riskless profit, riskless loss—or profitless risk

The key current test: at what $ price within a 50% +/- range
would #Bitcoin be OVERVALUED?
3/ “Today a young man on acid realized:
everything should be free
Property rights are zerosum oppression by patriarchy Everything’s relative to something which’s relative to nothing
there’s no absolute value
info wants to be free
money is made-up
...Here’s Bob with the weather”

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1/ I wish for a BETTER world for my kids.

A world where
they can *feel* offended but have no right to be protected from feeling offended or feeling uncomfortable if they are insulted for any reason or someone says or does something wrong, ignorant, misinformed, rude or uncivil
2/ A world where
-they can make mistakes and commit errors and be given a chance to correct them and not cancelled

-they can be surrounded + welcoming of diverse people with diverse life experiences + diverse POVs who may also make mistakes + commit errors and BE corrected
3/A world where
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Revealing— @Matterport's going public, partnerinf with Gores

Lux now joined by outstanding high quality world-class investors: Tiger Global, Senator, Dragoneer, Fidelity, BlackRock + Miller Value🚀 with up to $640M cash in $2.9B deal
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