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New comment by PokedBear in "ICE says officers can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant"

PokedBear — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:04:36 +0000

The problem with people invoking and using the castle doctrine is that while they might be right to engage in self-defense in that situation, they also would very likely be dead at the end of the encounter.

New comment by PokedBear in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

PokedBear — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:00:46 +0000

It will be interesting to see how they handle packages from the various f-droid repos. F-droid builds and signs all their apps themselves, so will all of f-droid be covered by a single signing key and developer account? Or will the fact that they take apps from lots of folks bar them from an account?

New comment by PokedBear in "De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR"

PokedBear — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:43:00 +0000

It doesn't need a lot of speculative value in order to be useful. It just needs enough value to make the transactions meaningful. And that means people are a lot less likely to drive up the price via speculation.

New comment by PokedBear in "Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops"

PokedBear — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:57:13 +0000

Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/243/

New comment by PokedBear in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

PokedBear — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:57:56 +0000

If someone isn't a violent threat to society, there isn't much social benefit to keeping folks locked up longer then 20-ish years. 20-25 (assuming he gets the 15% off for good behavior the feds allow) is plenty.

New comment by PokedBear in "Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?"

PokedBear — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:29:38 +0000

This is kind of mind blowing to me. The linked xkcd is a fantastic (if exaggerated?) illustration of this effect.

Objects in mirror may be further then they appear.

New comment by PokedBear in "Close to 190 banks could face Silicon Valley Bank's fate, according to new study"

PokedBear — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:39:55 +0000

"Risk" has mutliple dimensions. But by over-optimizing on one kind of risk they completely dropped the ball on other risks. They also whiffed on the kinds of risks that come from building a business based on the flywheel effects of a social network. Works great when times are good, but disastrous when tbe same effect works against you.