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You’re talking about an organization that built market dominance on the backbreaking labor and suffering of underpaid warehouse workers. It’s just not in the corporate DNA to care.…

I agree that it’s perfectly reasonable to be expected to be able to give an account of how you spend your time. My point is simply that whether or not this becomes an exercise in s…

There is no technical fix that will make managerial time-tracking less of an exercise in control and relentless optimization at the expense of the developer. If you want to preserv…

So your belief is that black people as a group have inherently less mathematical ability than whites people? Am I misinterpreting you?

What specifically do you think is the reason black people should not be expected to achieve demographic parity in academic math? And how does that relate to “blank slate-ism”? You …

Jeff Bezos, Amazon, billionaires and mammoth corporate entities in general, are not some inert goo. They actively shape the system to work to their own benefit, and they have massi…

The old history was written on the basis of an ideology that considered nonwhite lives to be worth less than white ones. It is in dire need of revision.

Who are these “professional activists who don’t give a shit about Queens”? The two most vocal opponents of the deal were a state senator and a congresswoman who represent Queens.

I loved this book as a kid, although once I got into the work force and began to appreciate the value of a work-life balance and the basically unbrigdeable gap in incentives betwee…

For those without the time to read - there is literally nothing in this article suggesting or alleging any corrupt dealings on the part of former governor Jerry Brown or anyone els…

Just as a point of clarification, Chinese have no obligation to comply with American sanctions, unless they’re using the American financial system.

The only thing I would add is that it serves as a convenient figleaf for regulators and policy advocates who are politically or ideologically friendly to monopolists, of whom there…

The process of making money for investors.

This is not the first time Atrient has been sloppy with the details of their NDAs, nor the first time Jessie Gill has gotten in trouble for being a touch too eager to get physical.…

“Sounds good until everyone starts doing it and the whole country collapses. Cool isn't it?“ This is called a “general strike”, and as one of the few means for the working class to…

The law is already selectively enforced, which is my point. It's selectively enforced to benefit private business owners at the expense of both migrant laborers (who are brutalized…

His policies are designed to selectively terrorize migrant labor and make it impossible for them to have recourse to the state. This keeps wages low because no private businesses a…

Very often "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" is invoked to mean "this story is complete rubbish" when what is actually meant is "I have a different, not necessarily correct, and very poss…