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That $272M number is proceeds from selling digital assets, not profits.

See the $272M "proceeds from sales of digital assets" in the statement of cash flows on page 26.

That's just for public data reporting, so doesn't stop people from actually doing tests.

The situation is similar in WA state, where the current bottleneck is specimen collection, as there is a shortage of swabs, vials, PPE and personnel. This results in large amount of existing lab capacity, such as at UW Virology labs, not being used. Skipping RNA extraction definitely helps with expanding lab capacity in places where that's the current bottleneck, but isn't the most pressing thing in WA.

Also when 85+ year olds die for other reasons, they don't all occupy ICUs for days or even weeks as in the case of COVID-19.

Have you gone to the NLRB yet, or is this not something NLRB covers?

Imagine someone super rich shorts Herbalife like Ackman did, lobbies congress to make Herbalife's business model illegal, and then profits from the short position. Would this be conflict of interest legally, or is this just how crony capitalism works in the US nowadays?

Then when someone resubmits new data, how do they know that a previously submitted data point is now stale and shouldn't be used any more?

It's juvenile, but I can't help laughing at "Visual Basic-ally."

It reflects the outsized influence Le Corbusier had in the architecture circle. Many people imitated him and built piles of concrete mostly for government and college projects.

Fair points. Thanks for pointing this out. I used "random" to really mean "not-top-pros." Moves suggested by experts being voted on by a large sum of people are kind of similar to how democracy and capitalism work.