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> Why is one type of price gouging accepted as capitalism and another type not?

It's not. No one is on the other side of this except those profiting. We all want medicine to affordable to everyone, not just the wealthiest of us.
Couldn't these people take out a low-interest loan for this time period? At least in Canada, major banks are reaching out to people asking to contact them if you experience financial hardship because of the outbreak.
This is where the intense anti-Social bent of the general populace is destructive. I’d really much rather have a portion of my tax bill redistributed to help someone like this than to be forced into an ethical dilemma of supporting a small business owner at the risk of my immuno-compromised daughter.
Grocery stores offer a lot of ready to eat food options. Though I guess salad bars are probably a bad idea at this point.
I am hoping that government bailouts will help the working poor and small businesses first. The current administration doesn't have a clue though, so I am not holding my breath.
You know that housing or hand sanitizers can be produced? The supply is not fixed.

So let people buy up what they want, and let producers make nice profits.

(Alas for housing, lots of American cities do have decided to fix their supply. But that's their choice.)
I also live in the Raleigh area, and it has just been baffling how care-free everyone is...
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I am fairly confident in the simple interpretation of a mob of angry farmers demanding that something be done right now.
Why is everyone here so afraid of emojis?
Divine grace.
This is going to be an economic catastrophe unless there's somehow a nationwide bailout to literally all brick and mortar businesses. I know of several local bar/restaurants that are considering shutting down for good, and a colleague near Melbourne told me of 4 that already have (I'm eastern US). Even if this all blows over in 3 months, we'll have a huge surge in homelessness and folks needing social assistance across the board.
Inflation causes stored money to expire. It's kind of a moot point in an era of 0% interest though.
The laws being used have been on the books for a century+, and past attempted misuse was shut down by the courts as it should be.
So I totally agree that people who work for companies affected by the quarantine should get some type of unemployment benefits to help them through this rough time.

But if you are spending two-thirds of your take-home on rent and don't have parents who can either support you or let you with them then you should probably make some life changes. When I graduated I didn't have a backup plan. I grew up with my grandmother and by the time I'd graduated she'd moved into an assisted living facility and sold her house. And I never would have dreamed of living in a place that would put me at that much risk like San Francisco or New York.

I was happy to move to Houston where even my waiter and bartender friends live very comfortable middle-class lives, and spend close to 25% of their income on rent.
You have a grill? How about a hot pot, burner or hot water maker? Rice cooker? Crock pot?

These are electric appliances.

Cooking for yourself is a good way to protect against the virus. Heat kills it.
This is the failure of the government, not of the populace
it might not have a choice...
They’d sooner shift from buying treasury bonds to other bonds before they’d go into equities. But what do I know. It’s be better if they went into the student loan market.
It's not really illegal in the "go to jail sense." But you can definitely be liable for patent infringement if you give it away, even if they aren't selling it.

That said, there is no reason to assume a product is covered by a patent unless it's marked with the specific patent number (a patent marking on it's packaging counts too). It might be, but most products aren't.

If you are an unknowing infringer (didn't know and had no reason to believe you infringed), your damages are limited (in the USA) to a "reasonable royalty." Basically, what a the parties would have hypothetically agreed to in a negotiation. That might be a few % of revenue or a small lump sum.
> Then I thought that there should be in the minerals some
unknown element having a much greater radioactivity than uranium or thorium. And I wanted to find and to separate that element, and I settled to that work with Professor Curie. We thought it would be done in several weeks or months, but it was not so. It took many years of hard work to finish that task.

Sounds like every software project I've worked on!

Edit: I love also the .txt formatting, wish more books had this option https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61622/61622-0.txt
That's a whole other scenario which will have bigger consequences than just a recession.
Illinois governor Pritzer announced the same about 8 hours ago starting tomorrow evening (takeout / delivery would remain open). Conveniently aligning with the closing of schools I guess. I strongly expect tomorrow will be my last day in the office for a while.
All this hoarding is starting to affect these providers too:
https://www.khq.com/news/spokane-nonprofit-collecting-toilet...
This is overall a good move if we want a chance to greatly slow the spread. However it needs to be coordinated with the rest of the country if we want to minimize the total downtime. Shutting down Washington now and having to wait weeks for Idaho to follow (where there are no reported cases) is just going to force Washington to extend theirs as long as it takes for the last state to shut down.
Nice strawman you got there. You'll have a hard time finding anyone who thinks that humans are meant to 'serve the market'. Especially any economist.

The market isn't a separate entity, it's made of humans interacting.
I hope so. Bagels too. I have yet to find a decent crusty one in this town since moving here.
> I'd suggest they put a couple of picnic tables out in the parking lot for take-out.

Why, though? The whole point is to stop people gathering in public places.

> Curious about other commercial operations that could satisfy the rule

Again, why? These rules weren't put into place as a challenge for entrepreneurs.
I think the US ban is against people who have been in the EU recently, not just people flying direct?

Canada is funneling international flights through a few airports, and asking people who come from outside the country to self isolate for 14 days. It's not completely open season for traveling here.

Closing the US Canada border entirely would be insane, there are communities in both countries which are only connected by land to the other country. There is literally a town split in the middle by the border. Tons of freight is trucked through (which unlike other modes of shipping doesn't have a natural hand-off at the border). Etc.

On the flip side, Canada has just started communicating to it's citizens pretty strongly that they should come home right away... so closing the border soon might be in the works.
The ones that can, yes. Specifically called out as such in this announcement

> Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services
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What was the process of registering a domain name at that time? I've often dreamed about going back in time to when I was a kid and registering a bunch of domains before 1995. What would have been involved?
hopefully landlords won't kick businesses out given it's not like another business could move in
boy, good thing that we're restricting testing until trump's extended family can profit

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fj2bmm/president_...
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There’s thousands of rich bourgeoisie in this world that don’t think like you. But your comment gives me hope that there’s more people out there that are driven by things other than fear and greed.
Yes, but money can be stockpiled in somewhat inflation proof ways, like investing in assets that grow, e.g stocks. You can't stockpile masks that way.
Yes, but what about the wait staff? I guess they can all go drive for GrubHub or whatever (if they have a car...).
Ventilator Stockpiling and Availability in the US [pdf]
Get to a place where the virus hasn't taken hold yet, within a country that's taking decisive action against it spreading. Then quarantine yourself for 14 days, so that you won't transmit the virus to others (in case you're infected) and create a dangerous community-spread outbreak in the process. Plenty of people will essentially be safe from this, the whole problem is the sheer amount of people who won't.
I kind of get it. This is going to devastate cafes, bars, clubs, restaurants, and tons of other small businesses. Hell, I doubt our dog boarding place will survive. Until our government steps up and promises replacement dollars, mayors and even governors are in between a rock and a really hard place. These small businesses rarely have a spare 1-2 months of rent, let alone payroll, sitting around.
Glad to see it. It's tricky, because restaurants are often marginal businesses. But I think we should create some sort of low interest loan program for small businesses, and maybe offer outright subsidies. Workers will need to get paid regardless, so that will lessen impacts on unemployment. And letting a bunch of businesses go under could substantially deepen a recession, which is bad on its own and will also reduce government revenue.

Given that the Fed cut their interest rate to 0% and that treasury bills are under 1%, credit is approximately free to governments, so a well-run small business support program could end up costing much less than doing nothing.
Oh then I'd totally lie through my teeth haha! The majority of HOA's are filled with NIMBY's entitled beyond reality.
Price gouging laws in some states cover an increase in prices in response to an emergency. If your prices were always high, that might work in a few places, but many are "average price" or poorly defined. Some states are also "an exorbitant or excessive price for a necessity", and you're always a target for "because we say so" enforcement, so it would be a pretty dangerous business.
People (and some laws) don't seem to like this sensible idea.

But you might be able to achieve something close enough via price differentiation.

So you might sell two kinds of hand sanitizer. One is the normal kind that sells for a normal price. The other one is the gold plated one that sells for a ridiculous price.

Normally, you only sell significant quantities of the normal one. In an emergency, the normal one will sell out, and people will start buying the gold plated one.

The gold plating can be anything. Even just different branding for same ingredients.

You never officially fiddle with your prices, but the average price you charge per bottle will naturally go up.
> Metal swords give a nice * ting * when they clash

I assume it's impossible to do this with sound effects without it sounding stupid (because if not, they'd presumably be doing that). Is there a reason why?
We can allow people to express sadness at loss.
I'm sure you mean well, but I'm poor and medically handicapped, not stupid.

I have a form of cystic fibrosis, as does my oldest son. My younger son is a carrier.

People with CF typically require up to a quarter of a million dollars in medical treatment annually. With two people in the family who have it, that's a half million dollars annually.

I've supported all three of us on well under $20k annually for like more than 8 years or something. And I can do that because we've done a metric fuckton of research and made a lot of dietary changes and gotten off all the boat loads of drugs we used to take.

So having my food supply cut into like this potentially does enormous harm to me. And I will get zero sympathy from a world that didn't give a flying fuck about me when I was homeless and has spent years telling me to my face I'm a lunatic making up the whole thing about having CF and getting well when that's not supposed to be possible.

For me, this is very scary stuff. I literally am better off not eating than eating the wrong things.

A silver lining of the past decade of horrifying shittiness is that poverty and social callousness taught me this: My condition actually benefits from semi-fasting and I can live for several days at this point on almost no food. It no longer even causes nose bleeds and fun stuff like that.

I'm a good bit stressed out and suggestions that I'm too dumb to be aware that ready to eat options exist are in no way comforting to me.

A lot of them are things I absolutely cannot eat for fear of being immediately sick and beginning to undo nearly two decades of extremely hard won, painful progress against a Dread Disease that should have already killed me and I often wish it had. This is a shitty life in a shitty world full of amazingly callous people and I'm really not happy to still be here at this point.
>There are also the thousands of people employed full time in the autumn to pick up leaves, and the people employed all winter to unblock drains blocked with tree detritus...

So grow pines and other evergreens they don't drop their leaves all at once like deciduous trees do in the fall.
China’s campaign to blame the US for the coronavirus pandemic
> This is one of those instances where the government needs to step in and store inventory.

The Strategic National Stockpile does store an inventory of masks. 13,000,000 of them. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-strategic-na... According to https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/05/washington-... they have plans to get another half billion.
What's the point? Just allow people to pay the prices they want to pay and sell at.

Why add more special licences to exclude the person on the street?
I know...it was an accident. I was on mobile and it happened quick.
Ok, so I don't mention every way in which kubernetes plasters over problems and gaps in Docker... I didn't realize that every single data point and kubernetes feature must be explicitly mentioned in my comment in order to justify the existence of the comment.

I will cut off my own hand as punishment for interrupting your day with my inferior opinion which is clearly based only on the words I chose to utter in said opinion. I mean, if I knew more, I would have said more, right? Because if someone doesn't phrase something exactly as you expect, then they are an uneducated person that doesn't even know the main features of kubernetes. Obviously.
Hands washed.
You are seriously comparing long-lasting intrusive federal surveillance with... saying people can only get take-out for a while?
You're free to hide such stories. This one's title made it very obvious what the subject matter would be.
If by "true hacker" you mean utter disregard for anybody else's livelihood, sure. He doesn't so much look like somebody worthy of admiration, and more so of pity.
It's not the same thing as stockpiling a year ago wouldn't have caused a shortage.
> Closing the US Canada border entirely would be insane

Oh, I know. Look how many countries around the world are completely closing their borders. I'll be shocked if all borders in the world aren't closed in the next week (two max)
And, if memory serves right, they officially got Shkreli for something completely unrelated to his medical 'price gouging'.

The same might happen to you, even if you carefully try to stay within the laws: they'll find something else to pin on you.
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> The information you provide may also be shared with the health care professionals who collect your specimen, the clinical laboratory that processes your specimen, the California Department of Public Health, and potentially other federal, state, and local health authorities, and other entities that assist with the testing program. Information may also be shared with certain service providers engaged to perform services on behalf of Verily, including Google, which Verily leverages for certain technology and services, including cloud services, security services, data storage, website hosting, and other support functions.
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That was quick
Apropos: bottled water is also easy to make and replace. Just take a bottle and a water tap. You can refill empty bottles, too.
Used this to get a perfect score on SAT Physics. Thank you, Landgreen!
Naturally-Occurring Nuclear Reactors
While we're on the topic of weird agricultural laws, from 1949-2015 we had a strategic raisin reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Raisin_Reserve
Because COVID-19 has a higher infection/transmission rate than the seasonal flu and a higher mortality rate. The economy isn't shutting down because 68 people have died, it's shutting down because 61,000 people died from the flu and COVID-19 has a distinct potential of being significantly worse.
How cold does someone need to be to not be detected by a thermal camera
It’s worth exploring every angle and weighing the pros and cons.

He brings up the Statistical Value of a Human Life (SVHL) which is a valid point yet uncomfortable to people who are new to learning how our world functions.

Also some of us are old enough to still remember the swine flu (H1N1) and the bird flu (H5N1).
Statement from Mayor de Blasio on Bars, Restaurants, and Entertainment Venues
The department of energy is responsible for the nuclear weapons program and the nominal owner of the weapons.
REI Retail Stores Closing Until March 27, with paid leave for employees
Is it?

I've loosely followed this stuff for a few years, and I just don't see it. I just see people trying to punish the people they hate.
You can be infected without having a fever. That's one of the problems with coronavirus.

Knowing you have the virus won't save you, of course, but you will be able to react accordingly. That will include trying not to infect anyone else....
Good. Seattle resident here. Have been ordering takeout for the past two weeks and honestly don't understand the large parties I've been seeing in local pubs for the past week. I find it sad that this needs a 'proclamation' from the Governor, when basic common sense is that you need to avoid crowds.
A restaurant near me already laid off 20 and we aren't even that far into this. A lot of restaurants, bars, and gyms are operating close to the edge of insolvency as it is.

Oh and by the way the timetable on the retail apocalypse just got pushed up to this week.
It’s funny how ideas related to the current crisis have been dismissed in the past as “not very interesting.” Yet my little company that deals with online mental health has exploded in the past weeks and with the visibility and viability of “remote” getting more attention, the growth potential has become a lot more interesting. We’ve had former customers resubscribing, and a deluge of new customers. My weekend has been nonstop handling the rush. It’s almost like being Slashdotted — yet these folks are handing us money.

Any new companies being thought up right now are likely going to be left behind — the time to think of this stuff was years ago. But, unfortunately, VC money often lacks foresight.

It is interesting though how vitamins can suddenly become painkillers in the right environment.
How would you describe it if gangs of people from the UK went to Pakistan and raped children there?

Would it be by the term “immigration”?

I’m genuinely curious.
The relevant facts are, one, only much older people have to worry about it, and two, the cure already exists in washing yourself. This common flu is here to stay, the absolute risk to vast majority of people is extremely insignificant.
And some calmer heads might have prevented the outrage spreading too much?
California is letting restaurants operate at 50% capacity for now, it’s not the same as in Washington.
That's not what is said in the article of politico. Here is what is reported:

First, The allegation:

According to the article, Trump was trying to get the Tübingen-based CureVac company — which also has sites in Frankfurt and Boston — to move its research wing to the United States and develop the vaccine "for the U.S. only."

Then, the government acknowledgement:

A spokesperson for Germany's Health Ministry quoted in the article appeared to acknowledge the U.S. approach and said that Berlin was "very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe."

Who says this is incorrect? The alleged party? Because the company did not deny that it was approached by the US American government to sell exclusive access. It just denied that it will be bought, which is a different thing. Regarding the exclusivity it has declared that it will ensure that the vaccine will be available to the world, without neither confirming nor denying the allegation. The fact that they clarify that (source: https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...) the fact that the German government acted at all (multiple reports of that exist), and the fact that the CEO of the company was fired (the company has a press release about it) after meeting Trump are further evidence that indeed an exclusive deal was sought.
Makes you shrug when the US military is dependent on India and China for a huge portion of the medicine it uses including antibiotics and other supplies like this.
That is also contingent upon state policy as well. It's kinda weird but in my state, WI, State law trumps federal law because our state laws are more stringent. It has something to do with our laws being grandfathered in before the federal government ever did anything about commercial lending.
Domino’s is allowing no contact delivery. You pay online for the food plus any tip you want for the driver, and tell them where to leave the delivery, such as at the front door. They leave the food without any need for in person interaction.
> Clozure

Clojure
"Tesla CEO noted you’re more likely to die driving a car home than from coronavirus."

Haha, so basically, don't drive home?
lesson: use linux end to end (unless you work for Microsoft). :)
Nine days ago, Yang said that "The fear of the coronavirus is likely to be as or more destructive than the virus itself."[1]

Why are this guys ramblings news?

[1] https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1236395050441027584
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