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smoothbenny

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    Comment #48297716

    $10 one time to a solo dev for something i use 100x a day. people will gripe about anything. take my money, please.

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    Comment #45427416

    Judging by the newly available categories it looks like they may have paid attention to some early feedback :)

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    Comment #45392257

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44598729

    Ok I read it and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s center-right

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    Comment #44597702

    ctrl + f “priceline” - 0 results what makes this ai

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    Comment #44597502

    is ai anything more than a shakedown at this point? aside from a few very specific corporate backroom use cases, the pitch for the product currently sold as “ai” is loaded with vag…

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    Comment #44530630

    citation needed

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    Comment #44526077

    every downvote is proving my point :)

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    Comment #44521848

    > if you are in the centre and find yourself politically homeless This is also an echo chamber

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    Comment #44521825

    Why do you think that is?

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    Comment #44521800

    He is a pretty important guy who does a lot of stuff all of the time that causes ripples throughout the entire world! I don’t read much about him beyond the headlines since I feel …

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    Comment #44521717

    It’s center-right. Even something as boring as Democracy Now would be a major improvement for this list.

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    Comment #44521662

    tl;dr: It sounds like we agree that the UX is good but the aggregation is bad. To call the problem unsolvable is dismissive and makes the whole endeavor of aggregating news pointle…

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    Comment #44520118

    UX is nice enough but suffers from same curation (center-right leaning, tech industry-directed) that makes anything like this fundamentally pointless in the long term. Designed to …

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    Comment #44439953

    I meant for your reply to every comment in this thread

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    Comment #44430558

    Do you have to use ChatGPT for every response

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    Comment #43707607

    It's giving CVS Bangers[0] [0] https://www.mixcloud.com/TOLKIENBLACK/cvs-bangers/

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    Comment #43572935

    Right wingers love inventing new ways to say the same tired bs. Tbf I stopped reading somewhere between “wither the struggling landlord” and “demonstrating consistency in your worl…

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    Comment #43113400

    I respect them for not immediately renaming the Gulf of Mexico in their product to cater to the whims of the current administration, enough to download the app as a situational rep…

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    Comment #43027649

    Tried this app last week w/ an EPUB. It read all of the drop caps as individual letters, before moving on to the remaining portion of the word. It said “tilde” before each item in …

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    Comment #41762532

    In the center of the world https://www.historyingranite.org/things-to-see/maze-of-honor...

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    Comment #40738388

    No one's discussing whether he's arrogant or not, they've all made up their minds. I gave an alternate, more charitable interpretation of his words, that would offer an otherwise o…

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    Comment #40737600

    > I really don't understand how you can arrive at them considering themselves one of the people who hasn't written libraries. There seems to be a comprehension issue on one side or…