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French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes(telegraph.co.uk)
116 points by sverige 9y ago|43 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
I think you're right. The money quote from the article: "The damage is done on a very large level because nothing is genuine." Various family members have tried to get me to join social networks over the years, starting wit
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by sverige 9y ago
This company's policies apparently allow comparison of genetic information without vetting who is making the query. I can think of a lot of uses for such a database. Adopted and want to find your birth parents? Wondering if your husba
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Elon Musk faces crunch Tesla vote as stockholders consider shock removal(express.co.uk)
1 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
In this instance (and most of the similar instances), if he needed the day off, he would have gotten it with fairly minimal notice. Without pay if he had used up his available PTO, yes, but so was the bereavement. I agree, most companies d
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by sverige 9y ago
When I was younger, sometimes I would hesitate to fire people even though they had crossed a bright line into fireable territory. With experience, it became very clear that it was never a good idea, so I stopped hesitating. That sort of th
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by sverige 9y ago
The relevant case is Katko v. Briney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney
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by sverige 9y ago
If they really doubled the paycheck, then the writer can presumably pay off debt and begin saving up a rainy day fund so that any layoff will be taken in stride.
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by sverige 9y ago
Unfortunately, my past experiences as a senior operations manager and site director with 500 to 1000 employees, reading these stories only makes me remember similar situations. They are all too believable and real to me.
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by sverige 9y ago
I agree completely. Not only does theft make their work untrustworthy, their actions have a huge impact on the morale of their coworkers. I have fired an employee for stealing lunches (with plenty of evidence, of course). I would have fir
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by sverige 9y ago
> This thread is surrealistic to me in light of the NPR retraction. I was responding to the statement that bad ideas should be censored, not to the actions taken by NPR. I actually agree that NPR did the right thing by retracting the fa
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by sverige 9y ago
No, when I think that an idea is false or harmful or both, I feel morally compelled to present the reasons I think that as clearly and cogently as possible in an effort to provide additional information both to the person presenting the fal
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New Yorkers are flocking to this Midwest sanctuary(nypost.com)
1 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
My recollection is that the DECs were generally more stable, but my recollection also has 25 years or more of cruft.
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by sverige 9y ago
Note the time stamp. That was posted today, not in 1993.
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by sverige 9y ago
YT is part of google, which definitely follows your YT login around the web and monetizes it, and more effectively than Facebook.
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In a forgotten town by the Salton Sea, newcomers build a bohemian dream(theguardian.com)
3 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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The rise of women-only coworking spaces(theweek.com)
2 points by sverige 9y ago|9 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
No trucks means no food in three days or less for 95% or more of the population.
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by sverige 9y ago
Where do you propose low- and middle-income people move to from the U.S., and when? And what country is it that will take in refugees from the U.S., if you wait too long to move?
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by sverige 9y ago
I run modern distributions and it describes at a high level the way my dual boot (and modern) laptop works. Not everyone uses EFI and systemd or Windows.
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by sverige 9y ago
This is pretty standard for a contract with a company hired to record events with photography / videography. High school yearbook photos involve similar agreements. That is how photographers make money and limit liability. Just don&
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Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery(atlasobscura.com)
86 points by sverige 9y ago|5 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
I wonder how many companies are waiting to see how this will be enforced before making the change. If GDPR is really actively enforced and causes some real pain to companies, then I expect your prediction will be accurate. If it isn'
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Tax cut not for everyone: 1M Californians will owe $12B more(sacbee.com)
2 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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California has eight of 10 most polluted U.S. cities(usatoday.com)
19 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
Actually, a lot of storms start along the front range of the Rockies and then roll east from there.
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by sverige 9y ago
Unfortunately, Gnome Maps does not provide distances in miles. Yes, I could do the math to convert these, but graphhopper already does that for me. So, it's a nice app, but one missing feature makes it practically useless for me.
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by sverige 9y ago
And people whose only jobs as adults have been elected or appointed positions will still mysteriously become worth 7 or 8 or 9 figures by the end of their careers, even though their only reported income has been a government salary.
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by sverige 9y ago
The percentages of kids who didn't speak English at home were pretty high 100 years ago, too, but they definitely were better at reading English then. The problem isn't effort. The problem is recognizing that there is value in l

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