Malmqky

What is the coincidence? Steve Jobs died a year after Satoshi was last active? Am I missing something? Not sure why this would imply Jobs is Satoshi. But never say never..

I do agree with this. Multiplayer, open-world pokemon would be interested for example. I will take what Nintendo puts out over a half-finished, micro-transaction heavy, no soul game any day though.

Well yeah, the stock is up 300% and has re-rated significantly. Anytime during 2020-2023 it was dirt cheap and all but guaranteed to cashflow half the market cap. In 2024, it's not as cheap but a better business and still has a bright future. Probably a brighter one actually.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with holding some cash and waiting for fat pitches. I know people that do this and do very well. Sure you could do better by putting in the time and using margin, etc. But there’s something to be said about keeping things simple and spending your time with family, etc instead of constantly reading 10ks. If you’re underperforming indexes though? Need to reevaluate your process.

Thanks for clarifying. I could see a reality where a bunch of smaller countries adopt it ala El Salvador and it snowballs from there. Especially with the US weaponizing the USD. It would be interesting to see the US/Chinese response to that. Both countries would be very against it happening, and both countries like to meddle in foreign affairs...

Switch 2 is an iterative version of the Switch. Everything I wanted in it - backwards compatibility, better specs, not OLED so one can be released later, better joysticks, etc. all seem to be happening. I don't have sales projections, but I think it's a safe bet it won't flop like the Wii-U,etc. Add in continued transition to digital sales, the growing player base, continued monetization of IP (movies, parks, Pokemon even), I think it's a low, low risk situation with good reward. EDIT: Also Yen is cheap.

Still Nintendo. Everything else I like needs a longer timeframe than one year.

Bitcoin actually. I'm just skeptical of it ever being a government approved/endorsed currency on the scale of being a reserve currency.

One thing I've always wondered is will the US/some other government create a virtual currency? Why use Bitcoin - something they can't control?

Bought some $T for myself and more for my mother. Anyone know why it's down 4% today? Couldn't find a single thing...

This. This. This. I have a buddy who I believe is a genius. He got accepted into Harvard and other top schools with no connections and I’m pretty sure he is the first in his family to get accepted into ANY college. He’s also super handy. Rebuilds cars, does his own roofing, stuff like that since he was a kid. Anyways, he decided to become an electrician and skip college and has made a damn good living. But even in his TEENS I would have trusted him to wire my house. Why does someone like him have to go through the BS union process when he’s better than 99% of the people who’ve been doing it for decades more than him? I bet he could have started his own company the moment he turned 18 and killed it. Instead he had to work for people not as smart and not as driven and not as talented for years first. Its stupid.

Idk why people think tariffs on China would force manufacturing, etc. to move back to the U.S. Do we really think companies will choose to move labor to a nation where they’d have to pay workers 30/hr + benefits? Why not just move to India, or Mexico, or any other country with manufacturing capabilities and much cheaper labor?

Personally I’m opposed but let people do what they want if they only hurt themselves. If I can scalp some shares at 3am because some idiot is trading at that time without limits, oh well. Guess it just benefits me.

Now this is the question isn't it? Who do you want to lead? Someone who doesn't want to, someone who is a philosopher and a solider and an artist all in one. I take your point though. There are worse choices than Elon and Vivek, and both not being career politicians is a plus. Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders required to work together if both were younger and actually aligned on wanting to get it done might not be terrible..but again, they're both career politicians. If I have to give a real answer - committee of citizens randomly selected similar to jury duty. Probably even more unrealistic than the government creating a department to cut their own spending though.

Ha! I hope you're right regarding checks and balances. Anyways I decided to look up DOGE on wikipedia: "Department of Government Efficiency[a] (DOGE[b]) refers to a planned United States presidential advisory commission announced by president-elect Donald Trump in preparation for his second term as U.S. president. It will be led by billionaire businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Despite its name, DOGE is not intended to function as a federal executive department, the creation of which would require the approval of the U.S. Congress; instead, it will serve as an advisory body making recommendations on streamlining the U.S. federal government and reducing inefficiency.[4]" Aren't presidential advisory commissions essentially glorified think tanks? Clearly I need to do some research here. But I still am very skeptical if DOGE will ever exist/function like people think it will.