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Leaked govt Brexit analysis says the UK will be worse off in every scenario(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by Geekette 9y ago|0 comments
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Robot hired by store to help out customers gets fired for scaring them away(iflscience.com)
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by Geekette 9y ago
Arguably, this is why art is so valuable. You have to know what you're looking for ... You have to know someone Art can still be valuable without such gatekeeping and often fraud-inducing secrecy. Art is intrinsically valuable in th
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by Geekette 9y ago
If open pricing were mandated as part of a detailed and systemic reform, it could work. I.e. if reporting is coordinated such that discrepancies are automatically flagged (e.g. in price/inventory receipts between gallery, buyer and a
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by Geekette 9y ago
Of course, art sales are taxable but how much tax can be collected when many transactions are undeclared, item prices of declared sales are not reported correctly for various reasons, thus incorrect amount of tax is assessed? A lot of the a
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by Geekette 9y ago
The biggest issue in the art market is transparency and it continuously amazes me that governments allow it to go on because at minimum, a lot of tax money is lost. The fact that this sector is so under-regulated enables the opacity, making
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How the top 10 places people are moving to in the US differ by race(washingtonpost.com)
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Uber remotely locked down offices during police raids, shutting off computers(bloomberg.com)
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What happened when I gave Bitcoin as presents(ft.com)
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by Geekette 9y ago
I also prefer a website - I closed the tab when I noticed it was app only.
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by Geekette 9y ago
This page is for candidates, not employers - post job ads under the "Who is hiring" thread (search for Dec post.)
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OK GO uses 567 printers and stop-motion animation to create “Obsession”(youtube.com)
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by Geekette 9y ago
False premise - you cannot know the full aggregate of those who actively give to charity regularly. A great number of people including some very wealthy ones prefer to give anonymously and often stipulate that as condition of their giving.
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Digital News Report 2017: digital news consumption in 36 countries, 5 continents(digitalnewsreport.org)
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2M images of earth’s biodiversity are now available for free(motherjones.com)
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by Geekette 9y ago
"There's more than enough evidence about this person specifically, and in most cases, for me/you to feel fine never associating with this person, or working with an organization he's involved with, ever again, even if a
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by Geekette 9y ago
Seems to be a media attempt at drumming up panic. The post outlines that the Norwegian fund won't be the first institutional investor divest itself of fossil fuels and is doing so for simple diversification purposes. The decision'
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by Geekette 9y ago
Context for salary agreements for employees of established companies is fundamentally different and not applicable to a discussion of salaries for founders of a new company. The salary calculation mechanism and amounts cited in the post
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by Geekette 9y ago
As long as you disclose your views upfront, rather than partnering with seething resentment because your cofounder has kids. Such people and even others without kids who also abhor such a perspective would like to know upfront so they can p
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by Geekette 9y ago
No, it shouldn't. If both senior and junior are starting the company at zero and working fulltime/equally pouring sweat equity in and assuming similar living expense profiles, then they should be compensated similarly. If you can&
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by Geekette 9y ago
Strong disagree on letting the founders personal situation count for the salary to be taken off the table. Having kids or not is a personal decision Having kids is a factual part of many people's lives, not an arbitrary personal de
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A research roundup to show that your office layout is toxic(code.likeagirl.io)
1 points by Geekette 9y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 9y ago
"just because someone enjoys bitter doesn't invalidate the fact that bitter is unpleasant" If they enjoy the taste then it cannot be deemed unpleasant. Taste is subjective, therefore, not universal. You also can't de
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by Geekette 9y ago
This is an article about beer with a small addendum about taste. The author's analogy is based on a false premise of bitterness being universally repulsive as a flavour. Within the group of those with heightened tastebuds that can more
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by Geekette 9y ago
The story is rife with examples of egregious acts, from Weinstein's investigators interviewing and secretly recording victims under false identities to lawyer David Boies directing a PI firm to help stop a report on Weinstein that was
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How HQ2 ended Seattle's love affair with Amazon(citylab.com)
2 points by Geekette 9y ago|0 comments
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by Geekette 9y ago
" ...if the stats the media are stating is correct, every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted (using the definition of addiction used from chemical substance abuse). Since there is no measurable difference in addiction
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Alex Tapscott's crypto VC firm aborts public listing after falsehoods revealed(forbes.com)
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Appalachian miners reject retraining because they think coal will make comeback(reuters.com)
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Bad Trip: Debunking the TSA’s “Behavior Detection” Program [pdf](aclu.org)
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