odonnellryan

I'm all for demonstrating, but if you're outside people's houses it's more than demonstrating I think.

I don't have the right to go lay on my horn outside your house, and for good reason.

They should be able to demonstrate and make noise, but there is a limit to things.

I cannot have a festival out on my lawn for similar reasons...

I think you'd have a very different perspective if I were to sit outside your house with a horn blasting for a few weeks straight.

You can demonstrate without keeping people up all night for weeks.

If that is the only type of demonstration that gets your point across, ok, but I seriously doubt that is the case.

what is your return for each year over the last 20 years?

If you're making remote employees feel like they are not part of the team that is your failure.

I don't understand any of this. Why would it subtract from your culture if you were to hire someone who is remote?

How would that impact you? It is difficult for you to work with them?

I don't mind getting a "good morning" message. Why does that bother people?

Haha yes. I have only played the lottery, maybe, 10 times in my life. But it is fun sometimes, and in my state the money goes mostly to good causes anyway.

What do you mean consumes?

By your definition it seems literally everything is a "waste of resources"

Gambling isn't even always stupid. There are professional gamblers who have made more money than I will ever make, and maybe more than you will, too.

For that problem it could work, but it would never work for the problem that exchanges face where people get their credit cards stolen, or a government seizes some user's BTC, etc.. and the exchange gets hit with big chargebacks and other fees.

You can't have it both ways. If you want an exchange where you can buy crypto with USD these exchanges need to protect themselves from fraud.

No. People buy lottery tickets for a lot of reasons. It is a fun bit of escapism and entertainment that costs just a few dollars.

You're making the assumption that everyone plays the lottery because they think it is a smart financial decision.

What can be done in an in person meeting that cannot be done over even email?

I would not say either of those are more successful than Linux. Absolutely not. Linux is extremely successful.

Commercially? No. But the value that Linux has given the world is immense.

I agree completely. And often more frequent.

It is great that people don't like online meetings. It means less meetings.

I have had very enjoyable online meetings, when the meeting is useful.

If you are having meetings all day, if that is your job, I can see how it is annoying. But that isn't most people.

Not true. Likely with high inflation the real return on your debt is positive. My mortgage returned +4.5% last year. That is a great investment!

It's also probably fine if you do not have large amounts of cash savings.

Lots of people have debt. I think most or almost everyone has debt.

> Current administration created gazillions of dollars out of thin air, far more than previous ones. They deserve the credit.

You mean the previous admin? Biden did not do much in response to covid.

Honestly most of these are positives not negatives.

You missed my point completely. It is only conservatives that pretend they do not cancel people. They constantly cancel people. Maybe even more than liberals.

I looked into the case with Maddie, and it seems like there is NO published information on this case substantiating the claims made by her and her mother. Why is that?

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Kids have gotten sick from the vaccine - but a lot more kids have gotten sick due to Covid.

You obviously feel very strongly about this, but no I don't see any evidence anywhere here that there was any intentional wrongdoing.

> Is it a problem, yes or no, that the adverse events that could be reported by participants in at least the Pfizer mRNA clinical trial for 12-15 year olds limited what could be reported by highly specifically creating a relatively short list of relatively minor potential adverse events? Yes or no?

It is hard to parse some of what you're saying, but what I think you're saying is is it bad that the app only permitted selection of certain things.

First, I don't know this is true. I haven't:

1) Seen the app

2) Seen multiple people talking about the app

3) Seen other apps used for similar trials

From what I know of end-users of software, and also what I know about parents and people who are politically motivated, I have a lot of skepticism about the claims in the video. Note I said skepticism, not that they are lying. I am skeptical.

I don't know if this claim is true.

But, let's assume it is true. There is another list of things I don't know:

1) Were there other ways to report these effects?

2) Is there a clinical reason why the app would be designed this way?

3) What else don't I know that should stop me from jumping to a really big conclusion? (that the entire world is in on some vaccine conspiracy).

Even if the answer is definitively "the app was designed to limit selection of adverse effects of the vaccine during the trial" there is a set of other things that I just don't know:

1) Was the app designed this way intentionally, or was it a consequence of poor planning? Or a bad software team? Again, being familiar with software, I'm skeptical that if we get this far (see all my previous points...) it was intentional

2) What else don't we know that we can't get from a ten minute video?

Your claims are remarkable - they need to be remarkably substantiated, and you're not doing that.

You're being a classic conspiracy theorist, just like I said in my first comment.

More than that, it is taking a decentralized tech and centralizing it. The point of this benefitting GME is because it would be a market they absolutely control (so they can get a cut of the profits). What's the point of a crypto tech in that case?

You can do that today, NFTs don't give you anything except memes and complexity. What do NFTs give GME that companies like Valve aren't already doing?

Ah sorry - for some reason I thought you said SP500. Should not comment before coffee :(

GME isn't in the SPX

Why will an NFT marketplace do any of those things?

Do you expect perfection? This is classic conspiracy stuff. Latch onto some small weird things that are truly odd but probably explainable though maybe with a good deal effort. Or in some cases they are truly just incompetence or whatever. It doesn't imply some crazy vaccine conspiracy that spans the entire world. It just means there is a really complex problem and neither public health policies or vaccine producers are perfect. But how many lives did both of those things save? Probably a lot more than were saved by JR and others casting doubt on these policies and on vaccines.

Government asking a private company to stop misinformation about a health crisis doesn't really mean the government is censoring.