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It's not a contemporary review. It's from "Vol. 18 No. 14 · 18 July 1996" of the London Review of Books, so it came out contemporaneously with Infinite Jest

I think the confusion you're talking about when you guess that people will over-estimate the number of "minimum wage workers" is due to slippage between the term "minimum wage" and…

I'm curious: Are you saying that FAANG have many applicants, but not that much talent? Or not as many applicants as people say they do? Or something else

Huh that's a cool observation. I think there might be more ambiguity there though. For example, I could (and in my case would probably) also interpret the second response as not be…

While this article has a number of problems that have already people have astutely already brought up, no one has yet mentioned his misrepresentation of the content and location of…

While this article alleges that addiction is the root cause of homelessness, it makes no effort to prove that claim. That there is correlation between the two is clear, but claimin…