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micromacrofoot

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About micromacrofoot

your time is better spent doing literally anything else

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    Comment #49224740

    code is a tool that produces an outcome, art is the outcome you can produce art with ai, but not everything ai produces is art, etc... when you produce code with ai it is always co…

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    Comment #49223685

    well you can enjoy your imaginary world where you get to decide who votes and who doesn't, but I'd rather the people who do exist and vote in the real world read USA Today than not…

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    Comment #49221440

    it feels odd to me to praise it as beautifully crafted without mentioning that it's essentially stock AI aesthetics to me craft is a human quality, I don't look at Ikea cabinets an…

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    Comment #49217595

    It's a fine app, but I'm not sure why gruber is glazing it so hard... is he not able to spot something so clearly built by AI? it's one of the better ones but it's got all the hall…

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    Comment #49215009

    except that the biggest handouts during covid went to businesses, not people... so we didn't really, it was also a very supply constrained economy which was unique to the situation…

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    Comment #49214630

    This makes the false assumption that all the money given to the poor go back into high margin goods that the rich profit from? it ignores competition, ignores productivity gains by…

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    Comment #49213839

    The most effective economic policy to help the impoverished is to tax the rich and give the money directly to the poor. The only reason this isn't common sense is because the rich …

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    Comment #49213095

    not talking about illiteracy, ~50% of americans read at a 6th grade level or below... that's certainly enough to make an impact, the 2024 election was decided by ~250k votes across…

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    Comment #49212634

    Search traffic is failing for everyone because of AI, you don't need a billion dollars to figure that out. Surprised we haven't yet seen paid advertisement interwoven into news art…

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    Comment #49212614

    The people who can only read at a 5th grade level are precisely the people who need to be more informed about what's going on

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    Comment #49211426

    I get more blind visitors than visitors with javascript disabled these days

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    Comment #49211088

    Never withdraw money, only take out loans! the survivors will sort it out, or not... we'll be dead so who cares.

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    Comment #49209882

    people were saying this literally as the cuts were happening, we need to get over the delusion of powerful men knowing something the general population doesn't

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    Comment #49203602

    fuck me for expecting to read something about steak I guess

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    Comment #49174692

    the average american spends 60 minutes a day driving, that's thousands of hours by the time you reach 25... at what point is that not a professional level of experience?

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    Comment #49174628

    Same applies to driving cars

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    Comment #49174619

    to err is human

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    Comment #49174597

    we've had people saying the sky is falling for years now

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    Comment #49173051

    > More than half of the decline came from a statistical correction to the population level in January and from the steady effects of an aging population, not from workers exiting t…

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    Comment #49158360

    well if driving is supposedly safer when automated, why not code

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    Comment #49146355

    railroads were a lot of stolen labor so I'm not sure that's a difference worth noting

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    Comment #49146312

    you're doing the exact same thing by making the inverse claim without any information, at least the original comment claims some change for someone to investigate... all you're doi…

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    Comment #49143687

    labor exploitation

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    Comment #49138352

    yeah the backlash against sony is focusing on the wrong detail, disks don't mean ownership and digital doesn't mean you can't own it the disks themselves are largely a relic alread…

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    Comment #49124788

    even bad hackers know it's true