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Comment · 1 year ago
Source?
Comment · 1 year ago
I believe “She” here refers to the original owner (the victim). Apple offers a feature to remotely wipe your device if lost, and that was what I understood the owner to have done. I’ve done the same thing for a stolen iPhone.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was at this talk, someone (you I guess) left at the beginning of this talk. To the audience it was not clear what happened,
Comment · 2 years ago
Millionaires are 7% of the us population (22 million people).

There are less than 1000 billionaires in the US.

Just because these words rhyme doesn’t mean they are remotely similar.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
If you are not familiar with the Elf on the Shelf that you put in your home to "report" to Santa, I guess I consider you lucky. The Gummy Bear on the Chair is HN friendly kind of answer. It sells nothing and promotes science and a maker culture. Happy Holidays.
Comment · 3 years ago
From just the headline I bet it was going to be Greg Egan, author of Permutation City. Was not disappointed.
Comment · 3 years ago
I was too slow…
Comment · 3 years ago
Title Missing (2016)
Comment · 3 years ago
That’s a lot of trouble, more than straight piracy and more than straight commercial “purchase”. That seems an unreasonable burden to impose on normal people.
Comment · 3 years ago
Quick except from article…

A few thoughts and takeaways.

1.) This case only applies to employees that the NLRA covers. In other words, it does not apply to anyone classified as a "supervisor" under Section 2(11) the Act. For these employees, keep your severance agreements as-is; this case does not impact them at all.

2.) McLaren Macomb is prospective only. It will have no impact on severance agreements previously signed.

3.) This decision makes very little sense. By the very nature of a severance agreement, you are giving a former employee something to which they are not entitled (additional money) in exchange for a signed agreement that contains certain covenants. The ex-employee is free to take the severance payment in exchange for the signed agreement (including the confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses) or not take the severance payment (and say whatever they want to whom). As these non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses are a condition of the receipt of a severance payment to which a non-employee is not otherwise entitled, I fail to see how the NLRA is implicated at all.

Comment · 3 years ago
That’s so smart! I read stuff like that and I’m just in awe of the cleverness.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had the same impression, do you know the name?
Comment · 3 years ago
The voices sound pretty good, better than I expected. I “recognize” the female voice. It sounds a lot like somebody who I’ve heard read many New Yorker or Atlantic articles ether for Audm or the old Audible New Yorker service. I’ll try and find the readers name, but I’d bet anything she was used in the training.

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