Hopes were high among the employees who joined Foxconn's Wisconsin project in the summer of 2018. In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground on an LCD factory he called “the eighth wonder of the world.” The scale of the promise…
Business Insider
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Avery Hartmans
– Oct 17, 2020, 4:28 AM
Silicon Valley's workforce is reporting feeling more burned out than before the pandemic. A new survey from anonymous workplace chat app Blind found that 68% of tech workers feel more burned out than they did when they worked at an office. That…
The New York Times
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Dana Rubinstein
– Oct 19, 2020, 2:00 AM
For months, as New York City struggled to start part-time, in-person classes, fear grew that its 1,800 public schools would become vectors of coronavirus infection, a citywide archipelago of super-spreader sites. But nearly three weeks into the…
Watching a half dozen French Resistance soldiers standing around debating whether Taco Bell is “authentic” teaches you some things. First, that most people have no idea what real Mexican food tastes like. Second, that community is the…
Stratechery
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Ben Thompson
– Oct 19, 2020, 5:07 AM
On September 8, 2004, longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather presented four documents about then-President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the early 1970s. Bush's service had been a matter of some controversy throughout the 2004…