leventonportera

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by leventonportera 3y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said. If you not the comment to which I was replying, I am addressing the specific point that the M1 was a revolutionary boost in performance, which it was not. Apple's Pro stuff (Intel) at the
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by leventonportera 3y ago
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by leventonportera 3y ago
Let's face it - you made all of that up.
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by leventonportera 3y ago
Yes, a company sign-on bonus being dependent on staying with the company for a set time, is not only a reasonable arrangement - it is the most common type of sign-on bonus. Any 2-year interest-free loan is a great loan, and you can turn th
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by leventonportera 3y ago
>There is a thing that we all by convention understand yes, and by we all you are including people who don't deal with sales bonuses, presales bonuses, or sign-on bonuses. the takeaway here is if you don't understand something,
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by leventonportera 3y ago
Yes, the interest-free loan with possibility of it becoming a grant is a bonus. At a job, a bonus is an extra benefit outside of base compensationn. But that's not what you're arguing here, is it. Since there is no actual argumen
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by leventonportera 3y ago
ah yes, a predatory loan is a a loan where you pay no interest, have a chance to have it forgiven, and at worst just return the original amount almost 2 years later, gaining the inflation amount. so any bonus that is not just cash in your p
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by leventonportera 3y ago
Wait, so the fact that banks offer loans to people, which they don't have to take is predatory then? The 0% APR for 2 years offers I get in the mail are predatory? This indeed must be terrifying for you, since those terrifying zero-int
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by leventonportera 3y ago
The people making and passing these laws are 70-100 years old and not only have no idea what encryption or p2p is - they start deleting their gmail emails in their browser when their laptop pops up an out of space message. My favorite goto
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by leventonportera 3y ago
This is exactly on point, but it has nothing to do with dating apps. The article claims dating apps are "soul-destorying" yet the first example it gives is of a woman solidly into her menopause who gave up on dating apps because s
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by leventonportera 3y ago
If you read the entire comment before replying to the comment, you would have your answer before you asked the question. "They are free to ignore any request I shout at them" I don't have any opinion on, nor care about their
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by leventonportera 3y ago
This is false logic. Youtube is free to not show anyone anything - once they send me data and it leaves their system, they have no claim to it. When I shout on a public street "sing me the Francoise Hardy version of I'll Be Seeing
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by leventonportera 3y ago
So when I go to Australia I can click "download Australia" in google maps before I board my flight? Or does it still let you only download a little zoom square like it did in the year 2013 to which you are referring? Does search
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by leventonportera 3y ago
I don't use google search (most of the time) as it's inferior - it ignores what I'm searching for, and substitutes what it thinks I should be searching for - and it's been doing that for years. There were free search eng
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by leventonportera 3y ago
The US government isn't preventing anyone, especially non-citizens living in other countries, from exercising their free speech. We are also free to read your free speech, and deny you entry to our country because of what you said abou
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by leventonportera 3y ago
It implies that other devices that are not supposed to report their MAC, but do, deserve a high CVE as well. This has to do with a bug seriously compromising a feature. It does not reflect the overall security rating of the entire device. I
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by leventonportera 3y ago
There was sarcasm, but there was no derision. There's nothing wrong with sarcasm - it is a common and civil tool of communication. Sarcastically stating the fact about an bad take in someone's comment - that it is a bad take - is