PokedBear

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by PokedBear 4mo ago
The step up basis makes sense in a world where you still have to pay substantial inheritance taxes. But with minimal to no inheritance taxes, the step up is a giveaway.
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by PokedBear 4mo ago
The bigger difference between an income tax and a wealth tax isn't the numbers. A wealth tax, for better or worse requires some realization of paper gains that very wealthy folks normally go to great lengths to avoid because their weal
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by PokedBear 5mo ago
Business PBX folks really like being able to forward calls off to a cell phone while preserving the original caller's caller ID. And making that work requires allowing arbitrary spoofing. There is some work being done to append the s
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by PokedBear 8mo ago
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.
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by PokedBear 1y ago
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 tha
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by PokedBear 1y ago
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.
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by PokedBear 2y ago
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/243/
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by PokedBear 3y ago
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.
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by PokedBear 3y ago
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.
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by PokedBear 4y ago
"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 o