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9001  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 94 year old healthy woman gets the vaccine. on: February 27, 2021, 05:25:19 PM
As I thought, no evidence for safety, or comparison of with the many nutritional and other, simpler medicines that work better, safely.

paracetemol has been around for many many decades. but it is not a cure for a gunshot.
it wont prevent gunshots

a malaria drug that handles parasites in the gut wont help virus in the lung

they tried it. it didnt work. people are still getting severely ill, needing to be intubated and dying. if there was a cure they would have used it
9002  Other / Politics & Society / Re: EU Told to Back Vaccine Passports or Google May Do It Anyway on: February 27, 2021, 05:21:30 PM
you can still go to supermarkets no matter what
stop making up idiot conspiracies.

we get it you lost the old idiot conspiracy about nano robots
we get it you lost the old idiot conspiracy about monkey/fetus tissue
we get it you lost the old idiot conspiracy about vaccine more deadly than the disease

just accept your losses and start dealing with facts. stop creating more lies. its never going to win you anything
9003  Other / Archival / Re: Invasion of U.S. by foreigners. on: February 27, 2021, 09:18:44 AM
We've had the same in the UK. First it's black and Asian people 'coming over here and taking our jobs', then it's the Europeans, then it's Irish Travellers, then it's [insert next minority group to oppress and demonise]. The poor fight amongst themselves, whilst the rich get richer. So convenient that the rich control the media.
1940's:women steal mens roles while at war
1950's:americans stealing our women
1960's:chinese stealing our british fish&chip customers
1970's:indians stealing our corner stores
1980's:blacks stealing our homes
1990's:irish travellers stealing everything
2000's:europeans stealing our farming/cleaning jobs
2010's:middle easterners stealing our benefits

i have no problem with it. im just stating the racial infighting narrative
9004  Other / Archival / Re: Invasion of U.S. by foreigners. on: February 27, 2021, 09:14:42 AM
The US is hardly a free market and Trump is hardly a libertarian..

Open boarders? Hell yes!!
Just have to completely stop ALL forms of welfare first Smiley
ALL

Is that possible?


They will vote for open boarders and all the welfare/free shit they can get their hands on..
They don’t care about what’s best for the future of the country, they just selfishly care about what’s best for them RIGHT NOW..

more people living in a city means more people buying food means more people needed to replenish the shelves of food=more jobs.

the failure is not in letting people in. its in letting businesses pay less wages/employ less staff/let businesses set up far away from their homeland

its that analogy
gov invites society to a cookie handout where there is 100 cookies. inviting 50 people promising 2 cookies each
30 corp guys turn up and get 3 cookies each. (leaving 10 cookies left)
18 citizens and 2 immigrants turn up
gov hands the immigrants 2 cookies each as they are starving
gov tells the citizens that they cant have their promised 36 cookies.. and point towards the immigrant as the immigrants eating 4 cookies.

when you learn that making new cookies to feed everyone is just a flick of a switch. dont blame the small % that get cookies because they need it. blame the corps that dont need. but love to have more then they deserve. and blame the gov for not offering enough cookies, even when they are in full control of cookie making
9005  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Very high fees - bitcoin fails on: February 27, 2021, 08:49:04 AM
devs 2015 promise was new BITCOIN code to make bitcoin fees go back to sub penny prices.
instead they 4x legacy to make it appear their new code was cheaper(false pledge complete). meanwhile their new code increased from pennies to dollars and legacy increased even further using their multiplier.

this was not 'a make fees cheaper game' after all. it was a make old code more expensive to promote utility of new code.

this whole game of making bitcoins fee's go up is purely done to advertise other networks users should use instead that are not as secure. dont even have a blockchain. dont even have a network wide verification system. but do offer cheap fees.

its the old. dont transact with gold as thats expensive to handle. lock it up in our vaults and we will let you play with bank notes in our new banking system.

..
if a government in 2015 said they know a 1% sales tax was alot for bananas and they will make new gov policies to get that down
then in 2017 they instead made the plain banana tax 4% while offering a new govbanana brand at 1%. saying look our new govbanana is 4x cheaper.. would you buy it and accept they fulfilled their promise.
no?.. of course not

what if they then wanted you to stop handling plain real banana's and instead lock them in veg warehouses. and and play with millibanana's on a vegan only virtual market. where the millibanana transactions were 0.001% whereby you also need warehouse managers permission to get your real banana's out when you dont want to play anymore.

i personally just want my real plain banana to be able to be traded at 1% or under again.. not this gaming stuff that is trying to imply real banana's should not be held.. as thats how the gold:bank-note game was played in the 1900's. and we all know why we moved to bitcoin to escape bank-note game
9006  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin activity now uses more energy than all of Argentina on: February 27, 2021, 08:34:51 AM
Articles that benchmark this way aim for more clicks to make the headline interesting but not new.
Bitcoin carries a market with a capacity of about a trillion dollars and the network needs energy to ensure its continuity.
Mining equipment uses clean energies and can easily be converted to zero emissions in a short time unlike many other energy-consuming things.

yes the article is clickbait and people like badecker fall for it.
anyway, for clarity:
bitcoins market does not have a trillion dollar capacity.
bitcoins market price is based on the current price of bitcoins single trade at a single time
the market cap is just a multiplication of that single trade at single time. there is no huge bank account holding $1 trill

my 'valuation' of bitcoin is never based on the 'market cap' (empty multiplication of no meaning)
my valuation of bitcoin is on the underlying value. how much money is being spent to secure the network and mine coins. because no one will sell a coin for less than it cost to mine/obtain. and no one would mine if its easier to just buy. so a true value baseline of substance and support is in the bottomline mining cost
($21k a coin=(meaningless marketcap multiplier value of $391b for those still loving cap values))

..
that said.
most major mining farms have contracts with utility companies. they do not buy out the domestic/residential supply allotment. instead they buy out the 'excess' electric. the difference between how much electric capacity a company can produce vs how much is actually used(capacity:supply:utility. 3 different things).

yep electric companies usually have a capacity of 120, supply say 110 constantly, where by the actual utility is only97. whereby normally that excess 13 goes to waste. unpaid for
bitcoin mining farms buy into that 13 with a contract of constant need/utility.
this then gives electric companies 13% profit for doing nothing more then pumping out what they always do. they can use this money to buy more generators(increase capacity potential above 120) or keep the generators working without having to turn off because they are even more profitable just to let it flow.
so everyone is happy

bitcoin miners have set their farms to only increase their hash by 1-5% periodically. because they dont want to shoot themselves in the foot spiking the difficulty.  but they also upgrade the farms hardware where the electric efficiency per hash gets better. so that the 1-5% hash increases periodically are not even 1-5% electric increases.

last point to make
bitcoin miners if all farms moved to argentina. then yes there wont be enough 'excess' contractable capacity for all of them. and yes in that situation they would be then eating into residential utility and causing brownouts.
..but mining farms are distributed across many countries. so each one is snipping only small chunks of individual countries 'excess'. thus not even harming the residential utility, but instead helping electric companies expand their capacity
9007  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin being branded as a 'Meme' by Mainstream Media Manipulators on: February 27, 2021, 08:09:28 AM
It would be interesting how many of these teens and early 20s are actually buying a portion of BTC but I don't think they have the numbers to reverse this bullrun since institutions and platforms like Paypal or Visa are still the main market drivers.

??dont think they can reverse the bull run??
the bull snared its horns on the 21st of feb at $58k. when bitcoin was at a 2.7x of speculative bubble above underlying value. since then it seems like the bears are on the field now.
the big players got their beef dinner. now its time for them to thank the chef and go home and take a nap.
big players dont advertise their investment interest before the deal is done as the advert would end up costing them higher prices.. so its always a buy first advertise later. then sell at the peak
yep many think its a form of pump and dump. but thats business
a true manipulative pump and dump is not jst the pump. but the dump. and whenthey advertise a sudden dislike for something they just promoted. that the dump.
(secret is they want the dump because they already sold and want the prices dwn to get back in at a lower price for more later profit)

also the main bitcoin open markets are not where most of the big players play.
just look at the markets, the market order lines are usually way under 0.1btc a line. not really holding enough volume collectively to be able to have some big player buy 50,000 coins in one month. without causing big impact
big players use private OTC services to get the big hoards. yes this ripples down to later affect the public markets. but is not a direct impact when they initially buy
by the time the markets react to a big player. the big player has already finished

its actually the small players affected by drama and speculation pushing price up. and also some smart veteran traders with bots programmed to recognise trends to play the waves.. and just go on a buying spree when prices are at under 1.3x underlying value and go on a sells spree when over 2x
so yes the teens/early 20's can affect the prices. because they are the main speculators on public markets that cause this volatile speculation due to news of events that finished days before it was news
big player elon bought his 50k btc in otc services in december..(no price drama)
millenial speculators bought small 0.1btc's on public markets afterwards collectively, reacting to news after the event
causing the jan/feb bull.
but that speculation has died down.
9008  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Circle of Competence on: February 27, 2021, 01:47:39 AM
sensible investing is about knowing what you are investing in
if you dont have time to learn. then stay away if you dont know the industry

but dont fear learning something new
if your into IT. you do not have to stick with that industry for the rest of your life
be confident to learn new things. just be confident you have learned enough to understand it before investing

some IT nerds know programming. but have no clue about shares, assets, investing. but think just because they know programming it will get them huge riches in bitcoin.
many have lost alot this way.

its not to say nerds should not trade bitcoin. its just to say learn more about it beyond your coding speciality. learn about assets, trading and risk management
9009  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin activity now uses more energy than all of Argentina on: February 27, 2021, 01:35:20 AM
an s19 is 95terrahash at 3.25kw an hour
bitcoin hashrate is 165,000,000terrahash
thats 1,736,842 asics
which is 5,644,736kw an hour

argentina households on average use 1.2kw an hour(a tv, light, frigefreezer, aircon combined exceed1.2)
so thats about 4.7million houses..
average argentina house uses 29kw a day=1.2kwh


so unless argentina has only 4.7 houses. and no additional businesses, factories, street lights..
then badecker and his sources have got the numbers wrong

yep bitcoin uses FAR LESS than argentinas electric consumption.
yep even far less than just the domestic residential use

badecker is known to take out dated articles. where those articles have already been debunked by not doing their own research thoroughly

so ill say it again. bitcoin uses far far less then argentinas residential electric and far far far far far less than total electric
9010  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: question on empty block mining economy on: February 27, 2021, 01:16:47 AM
1. Time for the first completed block to be propagated from the miner that "solved" it, to the pool that miner was participating in, to the pool that will solve the second block, to the miner that will solve that second block.
2. Differences in clock time between the two pools that build the two blocks.
3. Time for the second pool to verify the first block, and then build the second block.
4. Any alterations made to the timestamp in the process of solving the second block.

not quite.
pools create the block and the datahash of the block. they only send the hash to the miners and miners only send a hash back that represents the solution with the correct amount of leadings zeros
ASICS do no store block data. they only receive. process and send hashes. nothing more

here is where the real efficiences are in empty blocking.. first lets show what takes the time.
1. most pools wait for opponents solved block to then confirm that block.
2. remove those confirmed tx from the mempool to know whats leftl in mempool is unconfirmed tx
3. grab transactions from mempool to ensure their new attempt only has unconfirmed transactions added.

by doing 'empty block' pools can skip all 3 steps and just make a block using just the opponents hash without even bothering to confirm the block or the tx content
this can save minutes.

opposing pools do treat blocks as valid based on fastest first to be valid gets kept. but this is based on received time into the node not timestamp time of the block.
if timestamp was even a thing. pools would just put a time stamp 20minutes earlier each time and win. even if it took them 22 minutes to complete
9011  Other / Off-topic / Re: Human Flesh Salami of Famous Hollywood Actors on: February 27, 2021, 01:02:50 AM
To top it all off, a company known as BiteLabs appears to be offering the public a way to eat celebrities by harvesting cells from those celebrities’ bodies, then cloning / culturing those cells in an artificial meat reactor, producing “artisanal salami” that you can buy and consume in your kitchen. Their slogan? “Eat celebrity meat.” (Not even joking.)

it did not have the tech.  it said near future idea and 'imagine'..
also the site and social media abandoned that site in 2014 after just 3 months of playing their joke
try to do research
9012  Other / Off-topic / Re: Human Flesh Salami of Famous Hollywood Actors on: February 27, 2021, 12:49:49 AM
The world has gone mad.

In Wenatchee, Washington, a high school has placed band students inside suffocating cocoons where they can’t see each other or socialize, but they still have to play their band instruments. This torture
suffocating? - nope a tent is not suffocating. please try go camping once in your life
cacoon? - nope. a sleeping bag would be a cacoon. not a tent
cants see? - nope. they can see fine.
cant socialise? - nope. they can hear each other. its not a lead shielded box


yes seems a weird way to get kids back into music rooms to practice.. but its not as extreme as your cult play it.
9013  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you think COVID19 is a scam? on: February 27, 2021, 12:21:12 AM
^^^ Got any proof that Covid was the trigger? Could have been influenza, or pneumonia. Since the CDC lumped them all together, got any proof?

your first nonsense was that doctors just put covid on a death certificate.
it took you 11 month to realise that death certificates are filled with many items including the list of symptoms that lead to their death.
the covid deaths do not list gunshots. fights,knifewounds diabetic amputations or due to other causes.. because non covid deaths are deaths due to other causes
they do however list the symptoms and attributes and co-morbidity details that cause the covid illness to worsen

people with influenza due to other causes are not listed on that list. just like gunshots and knifewounds and poisons and any other dang thing unrelated to covid. because doctors actually run tests scans, diagnose. they dont just have 2 options they randomly pick.they actually diagnose

you really have to try to learn things and not displaying yourself for 11 months as proof of how ignorant you are. we got that display 11 month ago. no need to repeat it
emphasis: stop wasting 11 months of your own time trying to prove your ignorant.
you have had 11 months to try learning. dont waste any more time on your own ignorance
9014  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you think COVID19 is a scam? on: February 26, 2021, 06:45:49 PM
Since it was the CDC that said that the 94% died of comorbidities,

people have diabetes for decades. but having covid and diabetes makes the covid trigger far worse.
if they didnt have covid that week they would have survived. even while still having diabetes
the covid caused their mortality, it was complicated by their diabetes which made it easier for them to die from covid.

the CDC says 6% of people died without other issues.. this proves that covid doesnt just kill people already with illnesses but also some without any underlying issues aswell
it proves that getting covid while already having underlying issues is more fatal

there are other things. like people with dementia dont follow social restrictions because they cannot remember. so they get higher doses of virus.. then when needing nasal canular air support they get confused and pull off the canular and try moving around while not being oxygenated enough to have the energy. this wears them out. so its still not demenia that killed them. its the covid that killed them with complications due to dementia. again if they just had dementia and not covid. they would have lived.

its not stating they died due to other issues.
there is no listing of diabetic leg amputation. no listing of diabetic cataracts being the cause. because they covid deaths are not listing people that died due to diabetic causes. because they didnt die due to that.
emphasis. no one having a diabetic leg amputation that then died of blood loss will be on the covid list
emphasis. no one with dementia that commits suicide will be on the covid list
its the covid symptoms exacerbated by their underlying issue.
EG if covid causes lung blockages via pneumonia fluid.
then even if it lists things like respiratory failure, hypoxia or heart failure. you have to look at the cause that triggered it within the last month.
doctors do ask the question would they have lived if they didnt have covid
pneumonis and hypoxia and respiratory failure and finally heart failure. dont happen by magic
9015  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Will the bitcoin ecosys benefit of a fully regulated and public Coinbase? on: February 26, 2021, 02:01:18 AM
without going into the facepalms of people buying fiat shares of a company rather than an underlying asset it manages.

coinbase is already regulated. but hopefully going public can actually make connecting a coinbase account to a customers bank account more friendly as it seems more legit being on the public listings. which would be a plus.
coinbase would then be less likely to just do a 'we gotz hackz'd' like previous exchanges. another plus

but apart from that. i think it will just be a 'famous for 5 minutes' media speculation at IPO day
9016  Other / Serious discussion / Re: How do you predict the market? on: February 26, 2021, 01:35:12 AM
your endless thinking about 'btc prices grow indefinitely' makes me think your only thinking about ATH


Not about ATH, am I just saying that your system works while the price goes up in the long term. That has been the case until now, but that does not mean it will be like that forever.

when i trade i make profit on the dips
ill emphasise something.

BUY LOW sell at profit

your never going to guess 'the high' so be smart and stop waiting for the price to go up high.
just buy low and sell at profit and you will always profit

in the other topic i explained just one example using your numbers at how i profit in a bear. yep your numbers of a 1000->300 market shows i gained 3x coins instead of just buying all in at 1000
9017  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Antiwork: It takes a lot of work to create no work. on: February 26, 2021, 01:10:36 AM
the issue with government subsidised pay is this.

say you earn $300 a week for 40 hours at $7.50 and a government scheme is invented where they will subsidise your pay $1:$1 if your hours went down.
you take the offer and work 30 hours and get paid $225 from work and $75 from UBI
meaning you still get $300

however if your boss asks you to work over time. your physical labour is then not compensated.
your in a life style of 30hours for $300 now. but if you work an extra 5 hours. your boss pays you $37.50 but your UBI goes down by $37.50.so you ended up working an extra 5 hours. plus the extra cost of travel to work/laundry for work. but you have not earned an extra penny for them 5 hours.

UBI does not help people. it helps businesses reduce its labour costs

in the UK there is a social benefit scheme where the very day you get a job your benefits stop meaning you have to find money to cover all your costs of getting to work and stretch it until your work finally puts you on their pay roll and pays your wage.
they have another benefit for those that are disabled. where their benefit decreases by 0.60 for every 1. meaning if you work 10 hours at 7.5. your benefit decreases so that you are only 45 better off not 75 better off
where this extra 45 is then taken into consideration to deduct other schemes like local government(council) tax discounts due to increased earnings.
yep earning another 45 then become 36 due to paying more council tax
you also have to pay national insurance
then there is the cost of getting to work which can be 5 a day. so a 2 day shift of 5 hours each is 10. meaning its now 26 extra.

would you go to work for 10 hours and after all bills and taxes and expenses related to that work increase. only to have 26 extra to your name

so how about if the ubi was 1:1 and you get nothing extra. but then end up spending more just to work overtime


this makes people not want to find jobs for:
<16 hours (cost-profit balance makes them only truly better off at about 17hours+ if in uk disability .60:1)
or never profitable for any hours in a 1:1 ubi(work 0 hours=$300 work 40 hours=$300)
9018  Other / Archival / Re: Invasion of U.S. by foreigners. on: February 26, 2021, 12:57:03 AM
The problem is that we, the US, are being invaded by those “foreigners” that do not hold the libertarian principles of our founding fathers, but rather the principles of selfishness and “free stuff”...

They will gladly vote away our rights and free markets for a few more food stamps and more visas for their relatives..

Exactly what “they” want, and this is why us western countries are being flooded with foreigners..
So “they” can take control of us..

remember trump got his mother inlaw in via 'more visa'
trump also used 'free market' tarrifs.. which meant US bitcoin miners had to pay more to get an asic

funny part is libertarian ideals are no borders no rules.. yet 'build a wall' border and restrict visa's seem like borders and rules to me.. so not very libertarian is it

the statue of liberty does not read 'f*ck off back to your own country'
even the founding fathers talked about liberty
9019  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 94 year old healthy woman gets the vaccine. on: February 26, 2021, 12:42:20 AM
your 99% stat is a figment of your imagination.
try to find reality. the numbers are not what you think
9020  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fate of $15 per hour lies in the hands of the Senate Parliamentary on: February 26, 2021, 12:40:19 AM
$16.50 where fed subsidies 50% of difference

so someone on $10 would get $3.25 from the government UBI....
... so still on $13.25 overall once the cheque clears. still not $15 and still not $16.50

i can also see some people already on $15 not getting a pay rise for a few years because government gives them a $0.75(5%) pay rise instead.
i can see some companies already paying people $15 laying those people off or demoting them down to $13.50 so that government fill in the missing $1.50 to bring them up to 'value' of other workers in the sector, thus
saving companies 10% in labour costs.

though im for taxes being used for people in need. doing it to subsidise businesses is the same as letting businesses get away with not paying taxes.
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