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mircea_popescu: the funny part is... bernanke just said gold is a bubble
mircea_popescu: but if you ask me if this is a bubble in bitcoin... yeah it's a bubble.
mircea_popescu: "I haven't been able to identfy the intrinsic value of Bitcoin - maybe someone else can...
mircea_popescu: "I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental means of "repaying' it by any means that is universally accepted."
mircea_popescu: well... this doesn't sound that good on paper, either.
mircea_popescu: this is one of those things that sounds good on paper and then goes nowhere.
mircea_popescu: In a sign of the times, whistleblowers who help bust illegal gold shipments can get a bigger reward in India than those who help catch cocaine and heroin smugglers.
mircea_popescu: topace get a signed statement to that effect, you never know when you need one.
mircea_popescu: so can i have an m to the a to the n to the booooo-oooobs
mircea_popescu: Few studies have examined a direct causative effect between smoking marijuana and gynecomastia. A report in 1972 made the initial connection between cannabis and gynecomastia.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves kinda circlejerking each other, obviously, but the stuff they have to say...
mircea_popescu: JONATHAN TURLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.
mircea_popescu: REP. BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It's about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president's unilateral modification of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty inter
mircea_popescu: there's a reason mpex is mpex whereas all the labcoins out there consist of people talking tough but then upon on examination peeling away like onion skins
mircea_popescu: people will eventually figure out the importance of being able to talk to the actual guy running the show and making the calls.
mircea_popescu: whoever wrote that has significant experience as online tech support and no experience as a finance anything.
mircea_popescu: in that case, out of hundreds of people exposed four died
mircea_popescu: anyway, the secret is just how tolerant of radiation the human body is.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dunno, i imagine it must have been in some sort of container
mircea_popescu: here's a guy that was fucking a bunch of teenage chicks
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i;m more stating it plain for the benefit of the lurker than anything
mircea_popescu: people don't read page 2 so let's fuck up the flow of page 1 by smashing in there a bad summary of page 2
mircea_popescu: now, not feeling like some cheese is one thing, not feeling like cheese for two decades running is another, but not eating cheese because baby jesus disaproves ?
mircea_popescu: my point is that generally speaking restrictive diets are unhealthy. i fail to see any diference between "i shall only eat mcchicken nuggets" and "i shall only eat asparagus".
mircea_popescu: so you can wave at them through your transparent enclosure
mircea_popescu: but life w/o camembert is scarcely life. if i offered you the deal of 200 year lifespans as long as you lived in a hamster ball weould you live in a hamster ball ?
mircea_popescu: why not eat cheese anyway ? it's what made us white folk smart enough to rule all the other races.
mircea_popescu: this was young, but it had possibly the finest velvet micelium i've yet seen.
mircea_popescu: i end up having stuffed turkey for breakfast with a few slices of camembert
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY seeing all the intervening experts in their own head in the past 13 months opining on the topic as if they knew better.
mircea_popescu: i doubt they went "o hey, know what'd be cool ? if we built a ghost city!"
mircea_popescu: the westerners love bubbles, and they could EASILY avoid them
mircea_popescu: this is what they did so far. the problem is there's a finite bulk of treats, and they're trying to soft land it atm