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Yea but this not a permanent shock, it's a temporary disruption. As soon as this passes over, rents will likely revert back to where they were before. In NYC there are many vacant …

I have to disagree with #2. Landlords can charge whatever they want, and there is little reason to suspect that they'll lower rents after this.

> that type of stimulus would require an act of Congress, who apparently can't get their collective heads out of their own asses at the moment. Yes that is the problem. I believe t…

I don't disagree with this, but it's a shame we don't address the suffering of humans who've lost their jobs, or small businesses having to go bankrupt due to this crisis, with the…

Is the undergrad CS curriculum at a top-tier university really that different from that at a regular university?

Ending slavery could be considered "unfair" to a slaveowner who just spent a lot of money purchasing a slave. That doesn't justify slavery. The state of student loans in the U.S. o…

Can someone explain why bond yields are going up? Normally you'd expect people to be investing in safer assets (eg. bonds) during times of crises, especially with the Fed slashing …

Yes UBI would not "fix" homelessness or poverty, but it dramatically improves things. > People that have the tendency be homeless are people that don't find their place in society,…

> Beggars with voting rights will vote for people who give them more and more Given that UBI increases would be coupled with tax increases, I don't actually see that being the case…

Are you kidding me? We literally dump our mental health patients on the streets. [1] How many of the homeless in SF/NYC that you see have kids with them? The mental gymnastics peop…

Shorting the market. If the world's going down the drain, might as well profit from it.

Employers in the U.S. can fire anyone at any time for practically any reason, cutting off one's livelihood. That feels more likely than a government doing the equivalent of cutting…

I've always wanted the ability to just save my HTML/CSS changes in Chrome Dev Tools to the source files ("Future #3"). Why has that not been done yet? Would save a ton of time.

One day we will look at all the homelessness and blatant poverty in our society we allow in absolute disgust, similar to the repulsion people feel about slavery. UBI isn't just abo…

The only real way to fix this in the U.S. is to allow rank-based voting, otherwise it is practically impossible for any third-party candidate to get elected. So long as we have a t…

Australia is doing pretty damn well. The pay there is fantastic, and it's one of the few countries where you can work any honest job and still get paid well (I can attest that this…

Have you seen all the homeless people in SF or NYC lately? I'd love to see the reaction to some cushy FAANG engineer telling them "the time for UBI might not be now".

There is nothing inflationary about UBI. It's interesting how people think the onus is on UBI proponents to justify why their policy wouldn't cause inflation. Even if it did cause …

> but the risk for people in power to use it against the people. As opposed to what, private undemocratic unaccountable authoritarian institutions controlling peoples' lives? > nce…

You could have a 2 minute chat remotely

Why haven't they done it in Asia yet then since Coronavirus originated from and is more severe there?

This is insane. What are the chances of this happening for Asia? I'm currently in Asia and it would be unfortunate to not be able to return home.

You assume anything any big corporation does is the optimal way of doing things?

These acronyms are getting ridiculous

Well yea, none of those anecdotes you referenced are office jobs.