So you're saying drugs that aren't reliably effective are kept off of the market? Why is that a bad thing, do you want your prescriptions to be placebos 50% of the time?

Why is Baldrson glorious enough to have his name hotlinked three times, and his five digit userid waved in our faces like it was his penis?

Nixon didn't start the drug war, he consolidated it. The drug war started after WWII, it just took the various flavors of authoritarians on both sides of the aisle 20-30 years to maneuver the levers for it into place.

Uh sure, if you say so, but that's not how trolling works. Anyway, you're creepy either way. She's a child. Maybe you are, too, so you can see her as a sexual being. I see child abuse.

ACTH was "developed" as a medication literally two generations ago. Today's price increase is purely an artifact of the US consumers' legal inability to shop outside the local monopoly zone for the generic.

I got no dog in this race, but...

"Blacks owned slaves too ... The South had a very strong "caste" system. You didn't aspire to own slaves... Because you'd never have the money to buy one."

Upward mobility was a thing and is a thing... everywhere, including the South. Those blacks who owned slaves, were slaves (or their ancestors were), right?

What about all the other religious based treatment programs like all the 12 step programs?

Total click bait This just allows Amazon customers to donate to a charity. It's not a case of Amazon "supporting Scientology" any more than any other tax exempt charity. .

Don't buy your E-meter on Amazon.

What a piece of Chinese crap.

When I was in school they used to call that the "Retarded Class".

Richard Tol's 'research' is garbage meant to give some more ammo to climate change denialists.

The free market also ensures that those in power will seek to prevent opportunities for competition. Of course, you could argue that we're just not waiting long enough, and that in many decades these modern monopolies will be gone and replaced with different monopolies. But why wait, allowing the system to attempt to sort itself out over a very long period is destructive in the short term; if there's a disease then fight it today instead of hoping to outlast it.

Governments are a good tool to rein in the market, but the market has figured out how to purchase the government. So not only do we have naturally occurring monopolies, we have these monopolies also using government power to entrench themselves and prevent the competition. There is no free market economic theory or ideology that claims this is a good thing, and yet it continues.

They deliberately and with aforethought CHOOSE to live like this. What is your point? That they are insane? So, what you gonna do, lock em all up and administer Electro Convulsive Torture?

Leave the poor stupid fucks alone. They are content in their misery. If they weren't then they would change it.

Here's what happens when the government intervenes on the behalf of a well-heeled monopolist:

https://endpts.com/fda-rebuffs...

How do you suppose their own approved portals would communicate?

But this is no excuse to allow free market to run unfettered, wailing that no regulations are free from corruptions. Governments are instruments of the people, whereas the free markets are only instruments of the most wealthy, so the people should use their power to create governments as a means of keeping the free market working and in check. The government at least is accountable to the public, the free market is not.

It was obvious 20 years ago that there was a looming inequality about to happen. My first year at university I saw how much smarter and more competitive the foreign students were. They were going to get good, high paying jobs. So I went into STEM like they did and applied myself. In high school I was in the party crowd but when all my friends were getting mechanic and retail jobs it was clear that path was not a profitable one. For myself it was an easy decision to pursue a STEM field because my parents were educators. However for a lot of people, they don't have that background. We have a society that needs skilled workers but not everyone can gain the skills for various reasons. It's been like this for a long time.

No, that's not all we need to know.

Read the full wikipedia article to find out that an equivalent medicine is available in Europe for $8 a dose. The patient or the city insurance fund should look into the possibility of foreign sources.

It's not like refrigerators run, or computers, or cable modems, or cell phones recharge, or street lights work, or EVs recharge, or... And of course hospitals, police stations, telecom stations, internet switch centers, grocery stores, logistics warehouses, and more don't operate at night, right?

So if you want to position solar/wind as a replacement for nuclear or natural gas or coal - you have to include costs to provide power during this time. You HAVE to factor in the cost of backup capacity in the case of wind/solar is not available, whether that is battery or gas. Which means you're paying for TWICE the generation capacity. But if you do that - then the cost doesn't work out.

As far as negative power rates, the utilities were giving it away - but the generators were not, the EU (as I linked elsewhere) guarantees a minimum profitability for the generator. They will NEVER lose money producing power, then have an EU-granted guarantee on profit.

Acthar is a brand of adenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), a compound which has been researched since WW II. Since ACTH has been on the market since 1952, it is now long since off patent. For more reasonable world prices, shop here:
https://www.mybiosource.com/ac...

I'm assuming it's probably Chinese, but so be it. I hope China steals all our pharma patents, cranks up production to 11 and sends our domestic monopoly straight to the perdition it deserves. Then we can shop the world market and be treated at open-market prices once more.

One of the issues is that there are many, many drugs that have been in common use for decades, but haven't been subjected to the exhaustive FDA testing/approval process. One such drug was colchicine, which had been in use for literally hundreds of years for treating acute symptoms of gout. The FDA started a program several years ago to offer a monopoly (but not a patent) on these older drugs to companies that would undertake the desired testing. The result in the case of colchicine was that a company called URL Pharma did the testing, and in 2009 was granted the promised monopoly. Immediately thereafter, URL Pharma jacked the price from around 10 cents per 0.6 mg pill to about $5.00/pill, and generic colchicine was banned from the market. The FDA did get their precious test results, but they essentially confirmed what doctors had already known empirically for decades. Meanwhile, the cost of a month's supply of the drug became unaffordable (jumping from $3.00 to $150 per month) to many.

If I send you out onto the prairie with a net, you'll see just how difficult it is to feed yourself with those bugs. When I go out once with a rifle, I eat for months.

Elevator operators are pretty rare. Are you sure about that?

At least it's not socialism so it must mean this is ok right?

You have no idea how stupid that is. Turing's corpse just blew dyhydrated flecks of cyanide-laced apple skin into the moldy remains of his nasal cavity.

This only works if you can iterate within the typical set of the target domain.

The minimum fully distinguished hash length for a truly random input string is the same size as the input string, plus an anti-collision pad of about 16 bytes (ambiguous cases reduced to one part in 2^128).

What you've actually described is a data inflation method.

Crank score 10/10.

Those CEO's would not want me on the jury of the person who wacked them. Can you say jury nullification.

And just how do these absolute fucking morons think the logon data gets from the silly point and clock user presented screen into the god damn fucking program that is actually using it? Do they think Samantha is wriggling her nose?

What a fucking bunch of asshole time wasters. The whole fucking lot that had anything to do with this article should be taken out behind the barn and beaten to death with baseball bats!

Hopefully no money was wasted on this assinine drivel!

a bunch of small business owners banding together wouldn't be able to effectively bargain against a large pharmaceutical company. I suppose if every single business owner got together nationally, but at that point why not just do Medicare for All? It's been shown to work in every country on earth and Medicare has virtually no red tape, it's got much, much lower overhead than private health insurance.

Meh, I read it the other way around... why would any child from "No child left behind" to "Child prodigy" reach their full potential without intense individual attention, that generally isn't offered in any class anywhere.

No. You got it wrong.
The models predicted temperature increase as a function of CO2 emissions.
The retroactive aspect is that they plugged in the real CO2 emissions over the recent years, and that made most of the models accurately product the temperatures we've seen.
The average of a large ensemble of models from multiple independent research groups predicted the temperatures quite well.
To say that the models included were cherry-picked is an assumption you're making that is probably based on your bias on the issue.

Anyway, the actual science goes on, and the models are improving all the time, but if anything, the politically edited predictions that the scientists are allowed to state in the official IPCC reports are over-optimistic compared to the observed rapid warming rate. We are on a pathway consistent with the worst-case model scenarios of the models.

Yeah, I've considered just finding a few clinics abroad and withdrawing from the US health insurance scam entirely

And that one time you are suddenly in need of an ambulance ride to the hospital and a few days of hospital stay may bankrupt you, unless you actually live abroad.

Back in those days a penny was worth two whole cents and even then no one wanted your penny, right? I recall those days.

It's laudable legislation, but my first paragraph's intent remains. Seen litigation? Seen massive fines? It's not nonsense. Where is the nexus of litigation under the CCPA? Is it at the AWS server where the data leaked? Was it a citizen of CA who is an injured party? Is the nexus a programmer in San Jose? Who owned the data at the time, or was managing it?

No, California State can sue. Show me the litigation. Show me organizations slammed with fines for each and every record lost.

Read my first paragraph. Read it again, please, because therein lays an enormous problem. The GDPR now has a few emblematic heads on pillory, the crux of something actually being done. California is hobbled by the US Constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause, among other obstacles. I wish them well. Without US federal legislative support, this law covers at most 10% of the possible harmed on its very best day, which'll be a half dozen years in the future. I wish California luck, but more than luck, they'll need outstanding litigators.

"The market is free, you are not". I like that phrase a lot.

I understand that drug manufacturers want to make money. They are private companies, and making money is their duty.

However, these ridiculous price hikes are not the right way to do it.
Martin Shkreli did that, and he ended up in jail as one of the most hated men on the planet, and his company lost money. You can be aggressive, but being a complete asshole almost never pays in the end. You may see short term profits but after that, no one will want to do business with you.

BTW, aren't some labs able to produce drugs on demand? Is it that hard for a competent chemist to produce a drug from an expired patent? It is not worth it for $40, but for $39k...