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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
mircea_popescu: it's a strange mix between a command economy and a market economy, and managing it looks more like herding 10mn cats.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one point that is perhaps not directly obvious to foreigners is that china contains about 10mn people who have the authority to spend various amounts of public funds.
mircea_popescu: more like, "the chinese central authorities are not exactly asleep, and picked the right course".
mircea_popescu: in this sense it subtly strengthens bitcoin, because it's current value and recent explosion are both due to the little secret made public also on trilema, ie govts involved.
mircea_popescu: so if anything it's good, in that it balances out the govt battle, because the us (all its pretense to the contrary) could not have kept up.
mircea_popescu: had this pronouncement not been made, we could have ended up with a rush from chinese provincial authorities buying bitcoins and erecting miner farms
mircea_popescu: the economic situation is dire, the finances are in a mess. everyone is earnestly looking for ways to conserve capital values
mircea_popescu: the chinese do have a serious problem, in the following sense : it's a highly competitive society, much more so than the us was in the 50s. people are very performance driven.
mircea_popescu: anyway, some people were contemplating vehicles such as funds
mircea_popescu: which you know, kinda matches rthe fincen earlier report. bitcoin is, all the pretense of interested parties to the contrary, not a currency,
mircea_popescu: well, it specifies chinese banks are not to use bitcoin as a currency, as the chief point.
mircea_popescu: no i actually have people that speak the language peering at it for me.
mircea_popescu: unlike the us, these people have had over three thousand years to complicate things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who knows. i don't trust my grasp of the chinese intricacies much.
mircea_popescu: so it's really more like, if you make a loss trading bitcoin we'll shoot you. if you make a gain we'll maybe promote you, we'll see about that, don't bet on it.
mircea_popescu: without forcing the bureaucracy to actually explain what is wrong and how to identify it.
mircea_popescu: make strong worded, vaguie proclamations. this will encourage they who do things they think are wrong to desist,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves actually, the legislative strategy of the chinese governments ever since the days of confucius was,
mircea_popescu: usd 24h vwap 1023.03 7day vwap 1023.74. seems we're stabilizing.
mircea_popescu: bloctoc the bot only quotes when it can get a datafeed. if it can't it doesn't quote, and its previous quotes expire
mircea_popescu: that you send some hashing their way means exactly nothing in any sense.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, anyone can send hashing to ghash, it being a pool.
mircea_popescu: exactly in the sense the hash exchange wasn't run by pirate.
mircea_popescu: he doesn;'t, which is why he's on no. the miners are on yes.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you're closing shop anyway, becauyse you can't afford obamacare.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` people who predominantly pay minimum wage mostly use undocumented illegals anyway
mircea_popescu: it's not going to change as long as the diff isn't changing