[HN Gopher] A thief who stole 106 rare clocks
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       A thief who stole 106 rare clocks
        
       Author : whatami
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-04-24 17:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | nathancahill wrote:
       | Original source or second hand information?
        
       | jareklupinski wrote:
       | He had too much time on his hands.
        
       | zadler wrote:
       | Guess he couldn't find them second hand.
        
       | seabass-labrax wrote:
       | Nice of him to do this for hour enjoyment!
        
       | LeoPanthera wrote:
       | A man with one clock always knows what time it is. A man with two
       | clocks is never sure.
       | 
       | We have no data on a man with 106 clocks.
        
         | Arrath wrote:
         | If even a portion of them chime the hour: the man is insane.
        
         | CamperBob2 wrote:
         | A man with 106 clocks can be sqrt(106) times more confident in
         | knowing what time it is.
        
           | KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
           | Why sqrt? The ensemble is 1-P(Wrong time probability for a
           | single clock)^106
        
             | thefifthsetpin wrote:
             | Every clock is wrong; they're just wrong by different
             | amounts.
        
       | niccl wrote:
       | There's a neat novel that has the Marie Antoinette Breguet as a
       | core McGuffin. Written a few years before the timepieces were
       | recovered: The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil.
        
       | PeterWhittaker wrote:
       | He must be a Proust fan.
        
       | joshcrowder wrote:
       | It was just a matter of time until he got caught
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632682
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | i had already clocked this.
        
       | nerpderp82 wrote:
       | The time for these clock puns to stop is now!
        
         | labster wrote:
         | Dude, don't be such a clock blocker.
        
       | labster wrote:
       | A clock thief knows no peace, he will always have to watch his
       | six.
        
       | onion2k wrote:
       | I imagine he'll end up doing hard time.
        
         | dgacmu wrote:
         | Not in this case; his time was up.
        
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       | kainosnoema wrote:
       | Really enjoyed all the minute details in this piece, like
       | watching a documentary.
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | Still, it was rather alarming.
        
       | wantlotsofcurry wrote:
       | He's truly living on borrowed time
        
       | ryanmcdonough wrote:
       | Surprised he found the time to steal them all.
        
       | nathancahill wrote:
       | Museum should have had a watch dog.
        
       | fasteddie wrote:
       | This actually was his second offense.
        
         | nerpderp82 wrote:
         | On the other hand, he almost got away with it.
        
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