DavidPiper

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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
> However after a while I realized that people just post into the void. Everyone has something to say or promote, yet no one wants to listen. It's like we're all having our booth on a crowded public space, but there are no actu
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
I think you'll enjoy it. My impression is he'd have won more friends with Debt than he did with the Dawn of Everything. Perhaps not literally, but I do remember thinking Debt made stronger cases on average, and was more philosophi
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
Just in case anyone is put off by this comment, I want to second the recommendation of Debt: The First 5000 Years. It's excellent, and it has as a free, chapter-by-chapter audiobook on YouTube. As for Graeber being controversial: yes,
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
> 13. The work that makes other work possible is priceless - and invisible. > Glue work - documentation, onboarding, cross-team coordination, process improvement - is vital. ... The trap is doing it as “helpfulness” rather than treati
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
The amount of time I spent watching this page is a nice reminder of why I have a rule to never buy lottery tickets. See also: Simulation Clicker. I know how my brain works these days.
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
One reason we might assume "engineers" tend to operate with better ethical frameworks is that (in Australia at least) you generally have to register for accreditation via a large organisation like Engineers Australia, IChemE, etc,
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
Makes me wonder if bands produced something like a Displate wall hanging (no promotion intended) whether that would satisfy the same itches. For my part, there's something visceral about owning a piece of "physical music", as
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Dear Apple, Please Fix iOS Music(davids.town)
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
> I started watching the full press releases and politicians interviews which are normally available on YouTube. Is this true for Australian politics? This is exactly what I'm looking for. Currently all my searching for recent event
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by DavidPiper 9mo ago
Thank you for these sources! Happy to see Benn Jordan, How Money Works and Technology Connections as grey links :-)
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
I'll always upvote a recommendation for Amusing Ourselves to Death. I haven't yet gone back to Understanding Media directly yet. I haven't watched the news in 5 years. I started watching it again since Bondi (I live nearby),
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
I agree with you, but also want to point out the other powerful consumer signal - "vote with your wallet" / "walk away" - is blocked by the fact that AI is being forced into every conceivable crevice of every willin
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
I happen to agree with you, but it's also worth mentioning that solving whatever problem is creating the need to post ghost jobs in the first place would also make posting them unnecessary (presumably insecurity about the company'
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
> When you try so hard all the time, that level of effort feels familiar and you stop noticing it. > Put another way, years of overdoing mis-calibrate your senses so effort feels right and ease feels wrong. ... This is the first time
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
As another Australian, I have also never heard this. There is a lot of Australian-American political confusion/conflation in this whole thread.
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
As someone who has begun to fall into the "Machine Zone"[1] with gaming and stream watching (and trying to get back out) I'm feeling many of the things you're describing. I struggle with defining the line for myself beca
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
It's the classic "You don't need to tell a child that something is fun. The more times you a child something is fun, the more they will doubt you. It's easy to tell if something is fun, because it's fun."
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by DavidPiper 10mo ago
If it only takes a few years for a private entity to become "too big to fail" and quasi-immune to government regulation, we have a real problem.
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
Oh my God is THAT why he would randomly trip over sometimes?? I spent a small but non-trivial amount of time trying to figure out how to do it again when I was younger. Thank you, you answered a 20-year-old question I didn't even remem
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
A new iPhone is $2000 here, a battery replacement for my current one cost ~$200.
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
I got my 13 mini battery replaced the other day, instead of upgrading. No regrets, and saved $1800.
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
The problem is not that ordinary clothes pockets aren't "designed to fit any iPhone". The problem is many iPhones no longer fit inside many pockets. For now at least, Apple is still selling to people who wear clothes, and the
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
Hey, we must have been in high school at the same time. I saw the same thing going through my final years. But when I went back to visit the school a few years after I left... Things were very different. I'd say there was definitely a
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
I've also seen this happen for people who: 3. Leave long term relationships 4. Change careers or go back to university 5. See their parents pass away 6. Have children 7. Lose children 8. Completely change their physical health (diet&#x
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
> And pointing out that we're in a 'semantic debate' while simultaneously insisting on your own semantic framework (capabilities vs solutions) is exactly the move you're critiquing. I know, that's the point I&#x2
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
The real revenues of small and mid-sizes tech companies might, though. Which might be funny (in a Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote way) but only after considerable time and distance. Saying that, I think of those guys from The Big Short bei
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by DavidPiper 11mo ago
It's also nonsense. (Swimming and thinking are both human capabilities, not solutions to problems.) But of course here we are back in the endless semantic debate about what "thinking" is, exactly to the GP's (and Edsger
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by DavidPiper 1y ago
It's kind of sad, but I've found myself becoming more and more this guy whenever someone "serious" brings up AI in conversation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOELpzRDR-4/
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by DavidPiper 1y ago
Given the money involved, they may be contractually obliged to?
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by DavidPiper 1y ago
In this case it sounds like the polarisation is fueled by the axing and not the adding?

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