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3001  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 07, 2020, 06:26:49 PM
IF you're a woman, under 40 years of age, around 55kg and nice looking, I'd like to meet and skull-fuck your brains out.
Teething and biting is not allowed, whilst rimming is most welcome.
(...)

Maybe I see things too often from a romantic side, but I absolutely don't understand why you would not allow teething and biting?

I almost got in alot of trouble for biting the hell out of a chick once. Smiley

That's right, I remember reading about you in the Mirror.

How disgusting!!!
BEER???

He should have had a sauvignon blanc from 2014 or 2018!!!
3002  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 07, 2020, 01:15:28 PM
We hedl through $3k* last year, don't cry about $10k range chop suey  Roll Eyes
BUT, i have to admit, i opened a fresh can of the most expensive espresso beans to brew a strong black** shot after peeking into blockfolio  Undecided



* sorry, mindrust.
** is this a racist term now, or no?

EDIT:
Quote from: OutOfMemory
Nuff said, now let's return to BTC.
Looks like the spring is loading again   Cool

...and loading again...  Huh

3003  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Whom the gods would blacklist, they first make mad. on: September 07, 2020, 06:53:25 AM
And so it begins... sigh...

In other linguistic niceties https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19770
RPC: getpeerinfo: Deprecate "whitelisted" field (replaced by "permissions") #19770 ... luke-jr wants to  ...
  Undecided

[WO] Whom the gods would blacklist...
linguistic niceties

“τὸ κακὸν δoκεῖν πoτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν”

Undecided

I can't believe SJW rot has infiltrated Bitcoin Core, to the point they ACKED a merge to change "blacklist" to "blocklist".

For Bitcoin.

A blockchain.

...

Why the hell did they accept that? The request was done by a complete nobody, crazy.

^ The resulting comments are both hilarious and sad at the same time: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19897

Somehow, you and I and others missed this quietly slip through in June—a time when many projects were doing such goodthinkful Political Corrections:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19227

The “blocklist” thing resulted in a terminological clusterfork, for the obvious reason that BobLawblaw stated.

For want of time to write an essay of my own right now, I will quote something insightful that I happened across in June from a four-digit slashdotter, after the OpenZFS lead dev suddenly renamed all of the “master/slave” variables:

https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16559200&cid=60174924
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Capitulation will not save you (Score:4, Insightful)

by rho ( 6063 ) on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:28AM (#60174924)

I strongly suspect the people who are pushing for these things fall into two camps. The first camp are people who genuinely want to control the language, and by proxy, thought. These are very dangerous people and should be resisted at all times. The second camp are people who genuinely want to do something so they can be a part of this current trend and feel like they are participating in a meaningful way. These are ordinary decent people, but are certainly influenced by the bluster and actions of the first camp.

Here's the thing, though. If you're in the second camp, your actions will not save you from the first camp. The authoritarians in the first camp are fundamentally about control, and if you stand in their way, your past actions will mean nothing. Anything less than complete subservience to whatever ideology is currently in vogue in the first camp, is treated as a viral attack and is stamped out with extreme prejudice. Your past capitulation will not serve you in the future.

Nobody--at least nobody with a lick of sense or proportion--actually thinks that changing "master/slave" to something else will accomplish anything of substance or real value. It's nothing more than a publicity stunt to demonstrate that you are not like those people over there, the racists. It's a signal of your adherence to the new narrative, nothing more. The authoritarians in the first camp will acknowledge your signal, and they now know that later you will be more likely to accept the next click on the ratchet. Make no mistake, however; when they ratchet it too far for you, nothing you did in the past will save you.

It's the behavior of cults, and used to great effect at controlling behavior. What's surprising is how many tech people are susceptible to it.

Worth to note.
There is some kind of "truth", based on science, that assumes that change of language changes thinking, finally changes behavior.
In my humble opinion, the (seemingly) racism-directed changes to tech terminology that the industry is going through now, is indirectly forced by reasons you were stating above.
The thing is, basically i asked myself if i really have a problem with that, and in turn i got aware of the dictation that lies within. I think it's not that critical, but changing terminology in the code and in the books won't get rid of a part of what was once a successful human survival strategy (fighting the different). This  is also the foundation for norms, that's why norms can be changed and used to control normal people.
If you're not normal (i don't mean this in any bad way), you naturally want to resist to these changes. I did too, still do a little hard to accept this, but this time it's acceptable, no need for a fart to become a storm. Still, the dynamics behind these changes can be very dangerous and need to be watched, especially by people that don't obey to norms, just because almost everybody else does. It's an expression of our (rather helpless) attempts to fight our own insecurities as humans.

"together we are strong" basically says it all. The price for "strength" is less diversity and more polarization.

EDIT: Time to make breakfast for the kids, so if the discussion goes on, i might join in again after dinner.
Have a nice day, observers
3004  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 07, 2020, 06:26:14 AM
OT: Covid-19 crap / Braindump

There's this dude on Twitter named @JamesTodaroMD, who is talking a lot about T-Cell Memory serving as a form of immunity to Coronaviruses, and Covid-19.

It's being hypothesized that folks with healthy immune systems, are near middle age, and have no co-morbidities, have good protection against Covid-19, if you've had colds in the past (been exposed to Coronaviruses before, on several occasions); can fight off and develop an immunity to a strain of Covid-19.

Also, T-Cells apparently are capable of forming immunity memory against Covid-19, and this is leading to PCR Tests for re-testing infections as near useless. If you've had Covid-19 already, test negative; it's possible to retest positive, while asymptomatic, at a later date, because the PCR test is detecting dead viral shedding of a Covid-19 infection that was already taken care of by your T-Cell memory, generating the needed immune response.

Also, it is speculated by the medical community there is "at least one more strain of Covid-19" which is possible to become full-course reinfected with, again.

Again, speaking about healthy folk here, with strong immune systems, and no co-morbidities.
So says research, yep.

Additionally, the initial virus load an infected person's immune system has to fight off, correlates with the severity of symptoms. Common facemask reduces initial virus load, so it has some use as a protective.
The more ACE2 receptors an individual has on infected tissue(s), the higher the possible number of successfully docking viruses, the heavier the infection gets.
Immune system response time vs. initial virus load seems to be the key, to refine the term "strength". Of course, weak immune systems get overloaded by lighter infections.

The good news: Viruses that are mutating get easier on their host(s) with each mutation. The virus doesn't "want" to kill the host, because it can't really replicate and spread if the host is dead. This is one explanation why secondary infections are easier, and why many folks experience light to symptom-free forms of covid.

To sum it up, it really seems that life threatening sars-cov-2 will degrade to an even less dangerous kind of flu in the near future.
It's up to everyone how to handle this and have his opinion, but don't forget that we are a social species, so please let's fuck that ego and keep taking care of others.

Nuff said, now let's return to BTC.
Looks like the spring is loading again  Cool
3005  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 09:00:54 PM
What does it mean jojo? I dun geddit Embarrassed

In some countries, carneval season starts on 11th of november at 11:11...

Isn't that when WW1 stopped?


Indeed. Just googled.
3006  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 08:10:58 PM
What does it mean jojo? I dun geddit Embarrassed

In some countries, carneval season starts on 11th of november at 11:11...
3007  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Misrepresentations in re China on: September 06, 2020, 08:09:33 PM
I think it's because in the rest of the world (with minor exceptions) covid19 numbers are still rising, while china forcefully controlled the spreading rate.
It's a valid and healthy option, because china stopped everyday life to almost zero, until the virus didn't find new hosts. Economically risky, but it seems to work out.

It is statistically impossible to *not* have renewed viral transmission/exposure once social distancing measures are relaxed and people start interacting face-to-face again.

Yep, it's a simple tradeoff, imho. I'd never take china's covid policy as "successful" example, but their mesaures just seemed to lower their case numbers considerably. Economy suffered badly, but not for a long time. In the US it's more like a slow economic starving, it seems.
I didn't want to get balls deep into covid discussions in the WO again, but here we are. I might avoid it again, now.

Torque, what tells me that the general worldwide reaction to covid was way over the top is a couple of things.

Since the black swan called "nine eleven" convinced the world that anywhere, anytime, anyhow, something life threatening can happen to anyone.
Looked at this with emotional distance, it's a simple fact of life, the universe and all that.
Most of "civilized" people just not were aware about it until then, and the media constanly reminds them about that.
The world is in panic mode. Panic is a good foundation for stupid actions. This makes me worry more about the future than covid or the suicide bomber that might live next door.
3008  Economy / Speculation / Re: [WO] Misrepresentations in re China on: September 06, 2020, 06:35:15 PM
In WO, in in my own P&S thread, and elsewhere, I have been shouting from the rooftops since March that people should stop panicking.  (Though there is something to panic about:  Impending extreme economic hardship, starvation, and unlimited tyranny...  I fear hunger more than I fear Covid!)  I saw that the self-destructive mass reaction was bad; so did many others, IIRC (?) including you.  If people don’t heed sound reason, I don’t see what the Chinese have to do with it—unless the Chinese somehow control other peoples’ governments, mainstream media, and masses of ordinary people who are blindly terrified into submission.

I think we agree.

My point was simply that the Covid-19 virus was not the second coming of the plague that every govt around the world *except China's* pretends it to be. The recent photos of them enjoying life almost to pre-Covid level days is the proof. And who would know better than the country where the virus originated in the first place, and with 1.4B people has the most to lose?

Why the hell is the rest of the world still in lockdown mode? This is fkn ridiculous.

I think it's because in the rest of the world (with minor exceptions) covid19 numbers are still rising, while china forcefully controlled the spreading rate.
It's a valid and healthy option, because china stopped everyday life to almost zero, until the virus didn't find new hosts. Economically risky, but it seems to work out.
Most other countries governments know they can't control their citizens to that degree china is able to, because of reasons (on both sides).
Sadly, north korea, a country led by a dictator shithead and his trusted influencers, is even able to present even lower numbers.



There are many people whose position about this particular subject is in a much more healthy and reasonable middle point.


Every position is mostly a result of past personal experiences.
3009  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 06:09:51 PM
Coronavirus Cases: 27,202,829. Deaths: 885,764. Recovered: 19,288,016.





does anyone still believe that crap? afaik they still don't have a remotely reliable test.  

Governments can eat a bag of dicks, with a side of their own fear.  In the mean time I sure hope I don't get shot,  fall off a roof while choking on a hotdog and die of covid.

You forgot the media.
It's not exactly the virus that creates all the new chaos, but it's more how society* is handling it.

*You can reduce "society" to governments and media as well, because they are the most prominent drivers of fear.

EDIT:
Still a lot to learn about Covid19 but the virus itself quite sure isn't faked, unlike some are confidently spreading that Covid "isn't real"...

But that's the rub. Most people that take issue are denying the risk level that the MSM and govt is pushing, not that Covid-19 "isn't real" or "doesn't exist". I'm quite sure it does.

But those people, the majority, get labeled as "conspiracy theorists" or "Covid deniers" and get thrown it with them anyway.  Roll Eyes

The above statement was by no means meant personally, but as an example of the extremes that are results of the ways humans are handling their own subconscious fears.
3010  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 06:04:09 PM
Coronavirus Cases: 27,202,829. Deaths: 885,764. Recovered: 19,288,016.

So by the time i guess it's safe to say that covid's lethality is higher than the flu's.

According to the CDC's own website data for the U.S., 94% of Covid-19 deaths had comorbities with some other cause of death (e.g., flu, pneumonia, heart disease, heart attack, blunt force trama, cancer, etc.).

OK, that's a relation, but how was the data collected?
Do we know if, for example, recorded heart attack victims were diagnosed covid19 post mortem or vice versa?
Even if a flu patient dies of a heart attack, the flu is considered as reason of death, afaik.

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Only 6% of related Covid-19 deaths were tagged as "Covid only" cause (11,569 people in the U.S.).
Also, 99% of Covid-related deaths were over the age of 65. The majority were 70+.

How do these two figures compare to the flu, by the way?

Still a lot to learn about Covid19 but the virus itself quite sure isn't faked, unlike some are confidently spreading that Covid "isn't real"...
3011  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 05:37:25 PM
Coronavirus Cases: 27,202,829. Deaths: 885,764. Recovered: 19,288,016.

So by the time i guess it's safe to say that covid's lethality is higher than the flu's.
However, take care of yourselves and the ones you love.

@Bitcoin:
No sweat. We are still above weekly EMA(21) and never went under EMA(200) this year in the weekly, but for the covid dip.
Who tf can still be bearish?
3012  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 06, 2020, 04:30:31 PM
@ Torque

The deadly pandemic killed 3 people in UK hospitals in the last 24 hours. There are probably more people who die from jerking off induced heart attacks every day than this virus.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-coronavirus-hospital-deaths-22637304.amp

Wait...
Doctors and research told me that wanking a lot would be healthy for body and soul.

EDIT:

proudhonk was sleeping
dreaming of five bucks per coin
then he woke up, wet

the nullster checked by
long time no see, welcome back
defending the truth

Swaystar, oh my dear
don't think you can change the way
merits are used here

#haikufunday
3013  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 08:44:29 PM
"pasteurize some raw milk" You have a cow in the garage?

Hell no, but i'm surrounded by farms  Smiley
3014  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 07:47:49 PM
Protip:  I heard that raw milk is better for you anyhow, so skip the pasteurizing and just stick with raw dogging your milk.  You will thank me later, you dog.  Wink

I only go as high as 155° Fahrenheit, which leaves good amounts of "good" bacteria and kills most of the "bad" bacteria.
Same advantages but safer for the kids. One of my kids suffered from bad Neurodermatitis, which completely vanished with the help of the mildly pasteurized raw milk.
Plus, it lives longer in the fridge than unpasteurized milk.

But what i really went online for is this article i was recommended in a suggested tweet:

https://www.btctimes.com/news/kazakhstan-to-make-a-700-million-bet-on-mining
3015  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 06:30:59 PM
I sense a storm coming our way, moving from north to south.
Should we name it ?

Hurricane Bearolina

Good one.

Is it really a hurrycane or just a dropical storm?

EDIT:
my take:

dropical storm Bigbart

I am thinking that the severity of our current storm is somehow related in a kind of exacerbated way to some purging of froth that seems to be taking place in the ethereum (and perhaps related) space.  It may be too early to call that dynamic, and surely there are likely a decent number of 14 year old snot-nosed investors in ethereum, defi, yield farming et al that deserved to be purged to zero or somewhere in the vicinity of zero and to verify if they are still committed to such projects after a wee bit of froth purging.  Hard to know, exactly.

Valid option, imho.
VitalikCoin is dumping even harder, like many other Alts. Don't know how much the defi crap is dumping at the time.

EDIT:
I have to do some cleaning now, pasteurize some raw milk, transform some of it into a caffè latte and try fresh baked cookies with weed.
So in case they're too intensive and i won't show no more today  Grin have a nice evening, do yourself something good  Cool
3016  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 06:26:14 PM

Then i'd recommend a big, green candle:



== absolutely tobacco-free, of course  Grin
3017  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 06:16:20 PM
I sense a storm coming our way, moving from north to south.
Should we name it ?

Hurricane Bearolina

Good one.

Is it really a hurrycane or just a dropical storm?

EDIT:
my take:

dropical storm Bigbart
3018  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 06:13:04 PM
I sense a storm coming our way, moving from north to south.
Should we name it ?

Zoom out bro, the storm is a mild, warm ocean breeze while the tide is rising since march  Grin
3019  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 05:54:49 PM
September 3, 2020
12:03 pm

I bought bitcoin with the amount of $150 with the market price of the coin 11.3k market price and I'm trying to take investment because there is a chance that the price goes up into 15k.

Right now I'm seeing the price drops over 10k and continuously going down and this is not a good shot for me right now. The only choice is holding and wait again for another pump.

Just want to share my cruel mistake lol.

No mistake there. A mistake would be to liquidize these sats at loss. The most expensive satoshis i have bought were at a tad above $15k. I still hodl them since almost three years Smiley
3020  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 05, 2020, 09:55:53 AM
we will climb back to $11k soonish. and then it is decision time. we will either go through this barrier and all is good or we will get rejected. if we get rejected we will see 9k and in worst case 8k, but that is the very bearish case. I want to accumulate more, that is why I am even considering those scenarios..

Worst case $8k? Have you even confirmed your math and science facts? We will be hitting $3k again for certain. Everyone's confirmed it.

Confirmed.

Has everyone confirmed everyone's confirmation yet?

I will confirm it for a merit. You can buy multiple confirmations.

I have merited the post.
Swaystar, look away, will you?

Please confirm asap, so i can finally set my massive $10k buy orders to Proudhonk's $3k range  Grin
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