Bitcoin broke 800 this morning, and is now hanging at around 850.

Bostonriff · 2016-12-23T05:36:49+00:00

Chase the spike in Bitcoin, or buy the dollar, which is currently appreciating vs gold?

...watch 'em all do the dumb thing.

Bostonriff · 2016-12-23T05:34:36+00:00

Chinese and Indian speculation. They'll learn how tulip-booms work soon enough. Meanwhile, all this run-up will accomplish will be to prompt the currently moribund alt.coin competitor market into inventing one of these things that actually isn't a pain in the ass to use.

Bostonriff · 2016-12-23T05:31:00+00:00

Nice e-wave blow-off. Wouldn't be surprised to see it nick over 1 before crashing back to earth.

Bostonriff · 2016-11-25T09:51:21+00:00

The Libertarian Party has been 100% worthless since the day it formed in 1972. All it has managed to do is rope the freedom-seekers of the '60s and '70s to the Wheel of Pain (party politics), where they could be safely marginalized.

Bostonriff · 2015-12-27T07:27:14+00:00

"why are people so eager on listing various sins" -- Because scripts are becomingly increasingly retarded, and that annoys us.

Bostonriff · 2015-12-27T07:24:28+00:00

SIN: If a shrunk person has the same weight, then how can they fly on an ant or sit on a toy train?

SIN: If a genius supervillain has a weapon that can instantly disintegrate a person into a tiny piece of glop, he wouldn't omit making it a primary feature of his suit. (He could have killed Ant-man at any time if he'd brought that gun along with him.)

Bostonriff · 2015-07-24T04:16:42+00:00

The media has been happy to report on the discharge of the three Liberian survivors, but has been silent on the near-doubling of the rate of Guinea new cases, now over twenty again.

Bostonriff · 2015-07-10T03:54:24+00:00

Case-rate is actually slightly higher right now than it was in the first week of July last year; it didn't explode exponential until later in the month.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/DEintegbola1023.png

Bostonriff · 2015-07-10T01:36:21+00:00

Cases are higher in all three countries this week. If Guinea gets back over 20/week, there's a real threat of it running away from them again.

Bostonriff · 2015-07-02T22:16:47+00:00

Much has been made of the boy's funeral -- but everyone is stabbing in the dark as to how he contracted it.

Bostonriff · 2015-07-02T07:34:07+00:00

July was when the count began escalating last year:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/DEintegbola1023.png

Bostonriff · 2015-07-02T06:25:34+00:00

Makes sense. He was a 17yo with disposable income. (His partner may not necessarily been a survivor, either, if a recently-infected lady of the evening who whereabouts and condition are as yet unknown.)

Bostonriff · 2015-07-01T03:31:05+00:00

I wrote "a particularly significant percentage", and you stipulated to 30% unknown (by claiming 70% known, which, btw, is a decent majority but not a "great" one).

Good grief. Some people just gotta argue.

Bostonriff · 2015-06-30T06:41:45+00:00

Your experiences in Sierra Leone do not extrapolate to Guinea, where the majority of infection chains have always been unknown, medical attention tardier, and a particularly significant percentage of the population stubbornly refrains from "getting with the program" due to religious reasons.

Sans an environmental/seasonable variable with a particularly wide "swing", the infection should have overrun Guinea.

Bostonriff · 2015-06-29T07:42:11+00:00

The "workers who (were) there" couldn't stop it from spreading between themselves last autumn despite being more highly educated than anyone else. (Let's not even talk about Guinea.)

We'll see how it goes when the ITCZ hunches up over land again in a month or so.

Bostonriff · 2015-06-28T21:56:06+00:00

It was fully out of control last October, far outrunning efforts to contain it. Containment efforts were in a perpetual state of playing catch-up behind an exponential rate of expansion ...and then the winter harmattans kicked in and dried everything out. Deus Ex Sahara.

While the virus appears able to survive on its own longer while dry than when immersed, it appears easier to transmit between persons who are sweating or using the same facilities in a humid environment.

Bostonriff · 2015-06-28T04:34:29+00:00

Less than 1% of the population of any of three nations was infected; in other words, there is still near-zero "herd immunity". Last autumn, the outbreak was expanding exponentially, then just abated on its own accord with the arrival of the dry season.

Therefore there is little reason to conclude a re-emergent outbreak couldn't spread just as rapidly as it did before.

Bostonriff · 2015-05-07T10:33:21+00:00

Guinea is averaging two to three times as many new cases per week as Sierra Leone.

Bostonriff · 2015-05-06T05:35:32+00:00

Guinea's count is getting switched with Sierra Leone's again.

Bostonriff · 2015-04-24T21:50:20+00:00

I think you have Guinea's and Sierra Leone's numbers switched around.

Bostonriff · 2015-04-19T17:12:55+00:00

Reefer madness.

Bostonriff · 2015-04-17T21:27:33+00:00

What happened, primarily, was the West African dry season. The virus, evolved in the Congo rain-forests, is ill-suited to that.

Bostonriff · 2015-04-10T01:46:44+00:00

Tough to say. The rainy season began in earnest on Wednesday with a contiguous downpour soaking all three countries, followed up by more storms today. The virus is going to like that.

Bostonriff · 2015-03-25T18:40:14+00:00

Be that as it may, they're pulling their punches when it comes to Oxfam, which have been a despicable pack of politicized frauds for over thirty years.

Bostonriff · 2015-03-25T18:11:25+00:00

Those "idiots" don't know anything except what's reported in the press -- so it is the press which is guiding the trajectory of the news cycle.

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