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Oh yes it’s all paycheck to paycheck people congregating in Central Park.

The shelter in place orders started off completely voluntary. People ignored them. And it escalated. People continued to ignore and the policies continued to escalate. We didn’t go from zero to where we are now. People caused this.

How about we loan them the money at 16% interest, which is about the average interest rate for an airline credit card.

And the loans go to the front of the line in any bankruptcy proceedings.

Then I’m okay with allowing them to make their own silly rules.

It’s too bad that people can’t follow simple requests. Governments are forced to choose between allowing idiot citizens to destroy society or to implement draconian policies.

Medical professionals are being asked to come out of retirement. Nurses are reusing PPE for weeks. Medical students are graduating early to help.

The rest of us are being asked to just stay the fuck home for a few weeks.

And we just refuse to do it. Absolutely refuse. Everyone is suddenly and avid walker. So then governments have to choose whether to let idiot citizens ruin everything... or not.

I don’t blame governments. I blame all you idiots who won’t stop going outside.

“Get” is an interesting choice of word. They won’t escape without any punishment but they certainly can do this.

Their landlord can take them to court... when the courts open.

I guess I am in the minority because as soon as I see a shipping fee more than 7-10% of the cost of the item I immediately start looking elsewhere. Numerous times I've just decided to not buy an item because I didn't want to pay the shipping costs.

It's a real stretch to suggest that Apple is a monopoly because they control their own platform. By that definition anyone who has a closed platform is operating a monopoly. Is Netflix a monopoly? Fiverr?

One of the principles of competition law is prevent a company from abusing a dominant position or to prevent a company from obtaining a dominant position through abuse. Apple does not have a dominant position.

Another side effect is cardiac arrest. I am not a doctor but from basic reading I have done the dosage seems extremely important.

I had a similar experience except it was Google. Google outright killed the app and punished our developer account while Apple happily let it continue.

We tried distributing the apk and going through Amazon but it was fruitless. So now it’s just iOS and we have to explain why over and over and over again.

People say this often but Apple only has about 20% of the smartphone market. They don’t have anywhere near a monopoly.

To be sure, the congressional relief package includes $350 billion in help for small businesses, but the program is complex, limited in scope and only a fraction of eligible businesses are likely to use it.

That is absolutely untrue. The payroll protection loans cover 2.5 times average monthly salaries. It is easy to apply and virtually every company under 500 employees WILL eventually apply. I applied on Friday and I know many many others who did the same.

And that isn’t even the only relief that was provided. There are also disaster loans available that go up to $200k before requiring owners to liquidate.

The normal loan requirements have been completely thrown out the window.

But there is also a perverse incentive going on right now because of the expansion of unemployment. We have already had one employee quit to take an unemployment raise. The Senators who raised concerns about this were right. Unemployment payouts should have been capped at whatever the previous income was.

And there is a perverse incentive from the business side, too. The law doesn’t require no layoffs so some businesses are laying off employees and hiring more talented people at depressed rates. They only have to have the same number of employees not the same employees.

As has always been the case, you can use whatever browser you want on whatever OS you want. This has never been more true than right now.

Ah. I had not considered using DND for that purpose. Thanks!

You don’t need to worry about people under 30. Every older generation thinks every younger generation isn’t going to handle things well. And every single time, they are wrong.

If he had actually used the DPA last week this wouldn’t have happened. This shipment had already left the US and was in Bangkok.

And if he had used the DPA in January we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.

How did you do that??

You can take people to mean whatever you want. Behind those algorithms and big funds are people pulling the strings. At the end of the day the market is a reflection of where things will go.

The stock market is just a collection of people betting on where they think things are going. The market declined 25-30% because people were predicting a downturn. Now we’re in that downturn.

The reason the market didn’t tank today is because this jobs report was already priced in.

Yeah I understand the distinction but the weekly numbers capture much of the same information and are more accurate. The monthly survey is just something we do because we’ve done it for a long time.

The safety net has never been more robust than right now. With the additional $600/week through the end of July people can expect to receive an annualized amount of nearly $60,000. Add on to that food and other benefits and people who were laid off should not be struggling.

They do the monthly survey in the middle of the month. Most of the state shutdowns happened after the surveys were completed.

Don’t ask me why they don’t just use the weekly numbers.

I think the implication was that hospital staffs are overworked with Covid-19 but that normal every day emergency situations are still going to happen.

If you don’t like it don’t use TikTok. It’s as simple as that.

Grocery stores? Pharmacies?

There is zero value in crypto as a currency with this kind of volatility. It would be equivalent to trying to buy coffee at Starbucks with shares of Boeing stock.

Who is complaining about pricing? I merely pointed out that the Hololens is not a consumer product.

You cannot directly purchase the Hololens yet, and even if you could it’s $3,500.

Google is a spyware company with spyware apps and services.

So of course they spy on school kids. It’s what the company does.

Good to know that the only thing that can get the two parties to work together is invasive, constitution violating, spying legislation.

Hooray for bipartisanship.

I don’t understand the motivation. Lying and pretending is just going to make the situation worse and push the reckoning to a later date. Given that it is an election year it seems to me that punting this out is a really stupid idea for the incumbent administration.

Maybe they are just hoping that if they lie and withhold information long enough it will just disappear over summer? Seems like a really silly gamble with a huge potential downside and nearly nonexistent upside.