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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 fired the person in this story immediately if it were within my power.

Similarly, I have also fired people for other obvious character failures, such lying about bereavement leave to take time off. (It happened so often at one job that I ceased to be amazed when I caught it.) For example, one guy brought me an obituary for his dad that was obviously altered (fonts on dates didn't match, etc.). Google immediately informed me that his dad had died three years earlier. That was a fun conversation.

For those who think such behavior should be considered a mere mistake and that firing is too extreme, please tell me how such poor character can be corrected by actions taken by management at their workplace. If the job requires good character, then the only correct response to such behavior is to separate them from the company, as happened in this case.
In fact, they are legally prevented from sharing such information, if it existed, in many states.
The spice was the correction. The fact that they tried to push back instead of owing up shows it's uncorrectable.
So why is it not as popular as Photoshop, or even GIMP?
Maybe, but transparency isn't the only important thing. People can ignore disclaimers, and continue to quote the article out if context. Many people wouldn't check the source, and some that did would skip past the disclaimers and find the quote was accurate.
My first question is: What happens if you don't pay the subscription and someone finds your drone and scans the sticker?

Nothing? A note about how the owner can't get his drone back because he didn't pay? Do they contact the owner and offer to make the connection for a larger/burdensome finder's fee as a penalty for not paying?

The old "service" I remember back in the day for stickers on your devices in case they got lost was a one-time fee: When you purchased the stickers. And then presumably as long as the company was operating, they'd help you get your stuff back.

This is probably a better model, and the business could be sustainable on the fact that people's new devices will generally need new stickers. (In addition to stickers being generally non-transferrable things, you could prevent the item description from being changed and the like.)
I knew I was bound to get this type of comment. The error resulting from representing pi as 3.14 is much less than the PSNR resulting from representing a feature movie using 10Gb. Be thankful I didn't use "3".
In the very long term, housing should be a 0% return relative to inflation because incomes pay for houses. And if incomes aren't increasing above inflation, in the longer term houses won't continue appreciate above inflation.

Here in CA we're in a 50 year macro bubble since the 60s where housing has increased above inflation and even above salaries, but once your paying 60% of your salary to housing, it's harder and harder for it go any higher.

And if society is actually progressing, it would be a bit less than 0%. Anything greater than 0% return is a bubble/ not sustainable increase - though there's nothing that says the bubble has to ever pop, but there are limits to how much it can go up.
Your "example" seems to predicate on a world without gravity. The reason escape velocity is reduced based on the distance from the surface is that you have already provided enough energy to overcome the vertical difference - you can see this reflected in the difference in gravitational potential energy.
Even in that role, the HR failed miserably, so much that she got fired, and the letter writer got rehired with so much more money. He should've threatened to sue and say "Let's see who the courts think is insane here.". But how it happened in the update is the best, with the HR being fired after the boss finding out about her misconduct from the lawyer. If he had threatened to sue and she realized she had no case, she would've backed down, they both would've kept their jobs, but she would have started a new medium to long term mission of figuring out a bullet-proof way to get him fired.
What about using Serverless or a framwork for Lambda stuff?
They want to pressure you to cut corners, or work crazy hours, without directly ordering you to do so.
I use the same container as a coworker. His wife packs his lunch. When I bring in chili or spaghetti he could honestly mistake it for his own. Less likely with most of my lunches though.

And that’s not a hypothetical. He hasn’t confused our lunches but we do use the same style Pyrex containers. Mine is usually in a bag with fruit and such, but occasionally I put it in the fridge by itself.
I've been a drone geek since 2011, flying model aircraft and quadcopters (or drones as the media likes to call them).

I fly them using a live video link to a set of VR goggles so I have a first person view from the aircraft. With that comes the ability to fly long distance.

Because "drones" are fairly pricey items, I wanted a way to help retrieve one should it crash and not be able to be found by the operator - by default noone would know who the drone belonged to even if they found it, and not everyone is confortable putting their contact details in public.

So I created DroneFinder which allows you to register and print off stickers for your aircraft with a scannable QR code. The QR code allows a finder to contact the owner of a lost aircraft and notify them of its whereabouts (via email and SMS) using the GPS capabilities of their phone - thus allowing the owner to retrieve their aircraft.

I'd welcome any feedback.
Whelp, HN is officially Reddit 2.0 now with chains like this.
No, it's explicitly defined as a speed or velocity, not as acceleration and not as energy.
Here’s what that sounds like when an innocent person does it: “I’m so sorry, your bag looked just like mine and I didn’t notice it until I heated it up. Can I buy you lunch?”

Someone who has to be confronted is just hoping you’ll believe their excuse because that’s worked in the past.
Sure! I have worked in a lot of offices over the years, and most of these have actually happened at least once:

- Someone tells another coworker they can have their lunch, but they grab the wrong one (because the tag fell off or they didn't see the label)

- Someone says there is leftover food available in the kitchen after some catered meal, and the person didn't realize that container wasn't part of it.

- A new employee got confused about which refrigerator is the 'office stocked one' and which one is the 'personal items one'

- It was fridge cleaning day, and the person thought the food was getting tossed out anyway, so they ate it. Turns out the person was going to eat it that day (this one is borderline, not only because it is kinda gross but also kinda not cool)

- Two people had similar lunches and they just grabbed the wrong one without paying a ton of attention (much more common when a group of people go out to lunch together and come back with leftovers)

- A loose, packaged food item got knocked over and fell into someone else's food container.

Some of these are probably pretty rare, but I have seen many of them happen.
> As a finance major, I don't really want my wife whispering "EBITDA" in my ear late at night, so I can believe this conjecture even if the article isn't convincing.

This seems like an unfortunate argument, since, to the extent that it is valid, it is surely also an argument against anyone marrying you who doesn't long to hear financial jargon whispered in her ear at night.
> you've got two weeks

It happens in movies and it always works.
Indeed.

I know where I'm from, we have an influx of foreign students, paying out-of-country education costs. I have no issue with people from wherever coming here to study. It's cool, since it brings in a lot of ethnic stuff, as we all benefit.

The downside is actually that, alongside city government allowing "luxury highrises" for the students. We're in the middle of Indiana, and these rooms are going for $1400/mo.

It's a combination of many different things; Indiana University owns a great deal of land and pay taxes on pretty much nothing, the city council refuses to say no to the luxury condo makers, the council refuses to allow low cost apartments or assist funding them, the state refuses to let bloomington to annex more land. And of course, NIMBYs are in many neighborhoods, but this is only one facet.

What's "affordable housing"? The common refrain is 'The Market will tell us'. Well, the market also says "if you can't find a good job, you're gonna live in the city park".. So I don't put much trust in that market religion. Takes people in decision making roles to solve this one - Government.
There is also a trail to politically correct to the nauseous people like you probably. Fanatics at both extremes are not nice.
It seems as they can't reliably analyze the decisions.

>highlighting areas where Tesla needlessly added weight with things like excess metal flanges and overlapping layers of steel. "This adds weight without value," he said.

it feels rather presumptuous to assume that the added value isn't safety.. which isn't something you can assess in a teardown.

In the next paragraph:

"He was also puzzled by Tesla's unconventional use of multiple welding techniques in close proximity to one another. "I don't get it," he said. "There's a lot of technology [used] here, but what we don't understand is why they used the technology they did."

Not understanding something != bad
No, but you on the other hand...
Being fascinated by the physics of it, it would be really interesting to have a more detailed description of the H/W and S/W involved. I guess they get a few GB per collision which for sure needs some hefty number crunching CPUs, data storage and smart statistical (big data) analysis.
The other poster said that militas were made to "kill Indians". I'm saying that it is very likely were designed to defend against them. Do we deny that many of these societies were militaristic tribes? Do we deny history?

Besides the fact that the colonial militias had military use because Britain wasn't the only imperial power in the region. Washington, for example, led a Virginia militia against the French way before the Revolutionary War.

Is that really that off topic?
Still, you get tracked on your interests online. Those get cross-checked with those of your friends, their friends, your age-group, the area you live in, your other hobbies, etc. providing useful information.

Being in their web has value for them, even if you consciously try to avoid being of value.

Making users think they got the better of them is part of the business model. The only way to win is not to play.
Surely they can review brain activity and determine this with precision. A brain can be dead, but body metabolism can be maintained for as long as someone is willing to fund it, with food etc., so at what point is a person dead?
If the parents can fund this process, but their own means, this is fine. Even a fund raiser is fine. At some point they will be forced by economics to stop when sources run out.
As for the state? It looks as if the NHS has assessed this and has provided evidence to the judiciary, and they agree.

There are many wealthy families who have maintained their brain dead kin for man many years. The Schumacher saga is one. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/michael-schumacher-....
That family can afford this, this one can not, thus the HNS etc might well be placed on the hook for huge costs - which the judge said is not in the public interest. Goin to Italy looks like some crooked Italian doctors looking for a cash cow, which under the EC rules can pass these huge costs to the NHS.
Enough is enough, stop the effective torture of this poor child.
If they were in his drawer though...

I don't know what it is about office spaces that causes latent kleptomania to surface with such regularity.
I agree it would increase transparency, but at the cost of further damage caused by the bad story.

E.g., https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/study-finds-that-we-still-...

Damage has already been done, since it appears that retractions have limited effect, if any. But removing the bad story at least means new people won’t stumble across it and be misled.

It’s a balance and personally, I think they made the right choice.

If it were me, I’d feel better if there was an indirect and obscure way to retrieve the original story. Perhaps in this case there’s an archive that severs the purpose? If so, great. Of course it would be much better if no mistake had been made, but sooner or later mistakes are always made. You only find out the character of a person or organization by how often mistakes are made and what the reaction is.
To be fair, if I saw milk in the fridge of a coworking space, I would guess it was communal.
Yea - If there is no subscription in place then the code scanning no longer shows the aircraft as being "known" until the subscription is reactivated.

I'm open to ideas on it though - but how else would I ensure people keep paying.
Except it eliminates so much context as to make the apology meaningless. Unless you knew about the existence of the pre-delete story, all you know is that the story used to be one thing, now it's "NPR fucked up".
Good example.

Another more similar example is if the thief had a food allergy, say peanuts, and they stole a meal containing peanuts and got sick. I don't think most judges would argue that people need to ensure their meals can be eaten by anyone.

Though some schools do ban all peanut products for lunch. I am not a lawyer, obviously.
That definitely makes sense. I was thinking in terms of conduction, not radiation.
Takeout box is the same and food is similar.
I have the same container and it isn't labeled.
Food got moved around.
Forgot I didn't bring food that day.

I've caught myself once or twice where I grabbed the wrong thing. But sometimes in a rush, in sleep addled daze, or just not paying attention, it could happen. I would hate to be fired for a mistake like that.
I would love to know the type of food involved here. And also whether racial differences played any role whatsoever.
Totally agreed that the spec is not where it should be; it has suffered from lack of dev bandwidth after funding mess last year, as we had to shift folks from spec to Synapse work in order to keep up with the growth of the network. we have someone joining end of May who should have specific bandwidth to work on it as part of their day job; we have a goal to close all the gaps by Aug.
I think stealing implies intent, not that it was an accident
>I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase.

but you do think it's fair to expect a company to cater to the relatively unique way you use email?
Skunk Works did the same. Ben Rich mentions how by the time #9 of a plane rolled off the manufacturing floor they had devised new methods or better way of doing things. With meticulous record keeping they would be able to go back and re-engineer earlier planes.
“We shouldn’t do anything because it might not be the right solution” has is not a productive outlook.
One comes to mind for me. At my office, people will often leave snacks, leftovers, or just food for the office on a table for anyone to take. It's within the realm of possibility that someone may leave their lunch unattended on the table and a passerby may think it's up for grabs.
I was editing as you replied. Bit more thoughts on it there. But there's a potentially big concern to knowing who owns a multithousand dollar device and just pretending you don't know who owns it when you do.
Have you wondered why there are questions being upvoted just for a minute?
Seemingly missing from this entire discussion,

- why do we spend like 60-70%+ of federal housing dollars on high income earners / rich people?

- why is section 8 gutted to all hell?

I don't see why it's so shocking that there's no affordable housing, when some of the big old programs aimed at reducing that are a shadow of their former selves, and we spend most of our effort in housing just throwing cash at people who already make a lot of it.

Or maybe people like Zach mentioned in the article do think this stuff, but they're taking baby steps because the political capital necessary to actually stop the above points is probably huge.
Aha good answer to a potentially trick question!
This is such a hodge-podge of figures

What adult man burns 2000 Calories a day?
How to Build a Decentralized Application (DApps)
It’s the equivalent of a Penthouse “you’ll never believe what happened next” letter for office drones. I can’t believe so many people are taking it at face value!
Even considering how bizarre this is and how it was more to the story as jobowoo pointed out with the update, there is also a lesson here: If the situation warrants complaining to authorities, complain first or you'll be fighting an uphill battler even if you are in the right.
What would be the goal of the writer for even sending this to Ask A Manager with false events?

And more importantly: does it matter? If you come down to it, we don't even know if the writer exists at all. It's just an hypothetical event that serves as fodder for discussion.
Parent and microbiologists can correct me if I'm wrong, but the primary drivers of current DNA tampering are correlating different forms of genes with health outcomes.

We aren't creating new genetic code ex nihilo (yet).

So understanding the nuances of how different forms of genes influence outcomes is less important than knowing that they do. And what the naturally-occurring "correct" form looks like.
A whole lunch may be a bit much unless it’s some sort of pre-packaged food, but a few I have seen over the years:

- Grab-and-go sandwich from local vendor was eaten by wrong person. They had a similarly wrapped sandwich in the same refrigerator.

- Identical brands of yogurt, milk, cream, etc. were used by a non-owner with a similar bottle.

- Similar fruit was taken.

- Identical brand peanut butter was used by the non-owner.

None of these other than maybe the sandwich are like the original post, but these mistakes do happen.

In these cases, it was always resolved with an “oops, sorry” and a replacement item (sometimes waved off)... and usually more deliberate bespoke labeling or containering of common items.
I imagine the castle doctrine would apply. Kevin McCallister could have justifiably killed the burglars in Home Alone. It was actually rather nice of him to just use non-lethal booby traps.
My only experience with 'stolen lunch' actually turned into a valuable cultural lesson for me.

It was decades ago, at the start of my IT career, and I was contracted to fly out to a remote Aboriginal community (I am in Australia) to do some IT work. It was a full day thing, as there was only one commuter flight out to the community in the early morning, and one return flight in the evening. So I packed a big lunch with snacks to see me through the day.

When I arrived at the community, I went to the main council office, found a fridge in the kitchen, put my lunch in it and went about my work.

At lunch time, I went back to fridge, starving, and opened it to find that all my lunch had gone. Every last speck and extra snack! I was fuming, and sought out the council manager to complain about this. He just gave me a strange look during my hypoglycaemic meltdown, which kind of stopped me in my tracks, then said "Look, this is an Aboriginal community, and all their cultural rules apply. Traditionally, the men would go hunting and bring the spoils of their hunt back to the community. Whatever was brought back belongs to all, as per tribal rules. Any food that is left in the shared fridge is traditionally there for everyone to share in".

That completely shook me to my core to look at the situation in a completely different light. And true to the spirit of their tribal culture, the manager offered me some of his lunch to keep me going that day.
> Why?

Why?
...which apparently are 90% of the users by the latest stats. But do not let facts bother your fictions.
The point is simple: Trueness is on a different axis from slant (or perhaps: spin). Something can be neutrally presented and bullshit, or slantedly presented and true.

Ideally, in this four-quadrant space, most news would stick to the true/neutral space, the others to be avoided as hard as possible. We both know that doesn't happen.
This sounds like a call center or similar place where they're desperate to fill the cubes with as many warm bodies as possible, sociopath or not. The behavior of HR suggests a less than professional workplace with high turnover.
There is a big difference between mistakenly eating someone else's lunch and being a thief.

It's conceivable that someone could have a visually identical container (brown paper bag) and a visually identical lunch (sandwich and apple), in which case yes - that would be a mistake.

I'd bet that that is the case for much less than 5% of the lunches misappropriated.

Calling deliberate theft a "mistake" is fundamentally dishonest - it pollutes the meaning of the word mistake.
That's still less than 3 weeks, not like he's really won, and now he looks like he's conceded and still got the project done "late".
You can easily get somebody's DNA without their explicit consent btw. Just go through their trash.
I get the same link as you in there. I wonder if this is some honeypot technique for detecting misbehaving robots?
3 days ago I had no idea what Big O, sorting algorithms were, now I'll teach you
I've never had someone steal my lunch, nor have I stolen anybody's lunch, so the issue seems a bit moot to me.

Steal my _chair_, though, and may all the laws of Gods and Men come down upon you in their most unmitigated rigor! That has happened to me _way_ too often.
For a lay person, sure. But these are experts at automotive engineering. Imagine if you were reviewing a new developer's code, and you were puzzled by a particularly non-idiomatic implementation where you can't see the reasons for avoiding the idiomatic version. Are you going to think that maybe this is some technique you're unfamiliar with, or that the person who'se still quite new to developing might not be aware of the idiomatic verions?
Possibly - but you don't necessarily know who owns it. The owner can choose how much information gets displayed to the finder via their settings.

The system will still act as a proxy though, sending a SMS and email to the owner if the finder submits that they've found it.

It's relying on honesty at the end of the day - I like to think most people are honest enough that given the opportunity to help someone get their property back they'll do so.
> My criticism is that news orgs shoot first and ask questions later. Even the news orgs we hold in very high regard (NPR) do it. To me, that means it's a systemic problem with the profession.

I don't have an answer, but I think news org are functioning in a world that demands the following:

1. We want news fast

2. We want news free

3. We want news free of ads
Or what's more likely is that Tesla didn't decide to make giant flanges because they're idiots, and they're not going to outright tell M&A what the reasoning is, because this is exactly the information they want to be able to sell to other auto manufacturers.