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2023-04-24 13:58:25

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Thanks!

2023-04-24 11:37:50

I enjoy checking back in on Nostr development every now and then, but I wish there was a more convenient way of getting a quick overview of recent updates.

2023-04-24 11:14:30

It's a petty that people use credit scores as a proxy for "financial competence", because they're such a shit measure of this.
The thing they actually measure is how much potential you've got as a debt slave. That's a very different thing!
This post was brought to you by my bank telling me I need to go into £15k of debt to improve my credit score. Apparently the fact I pay them so little interest makes me "less reliable" as a borrower. 🙃

2023-03-20 14:44:24

Something you can't afford to forget at times like this is that for many of the people in charge, the moral imperative to keep everyone calm trumps the moral imperative to tell the truth. They WILL lie to keep people and the markets calm. That's not a conspiracy theory: our laws and methods of governing basically compell them to do this. It's not malicious either, it comes from a genuine effort to "do what's best".
"Nanny state" is a meme, but the UK government has demonstrated many times that it governs like a parent not a partner. If it believes it's unsafe for you to know a thing, it will try to hide it from you. You need to factor that into your decision making process.

2023-03-20 10:58:22

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💯 😂

2023-03-20 10:47:52

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To clarify: The banks are a routing node that collects exorbitant fees (in the form of interest and repayment)

2023-03-20 10:41:43

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I find it useful to think of "credit creation" as banks giving businesses and individuals authority to devalue everyone else's money a little bit. The actual transfer of value is from the entire population to loan recipient, the bank are just a routing node.

2023-03-16 14:50:42

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In the big org I work for even "apprenticeship-like" ways of working (e.g. 1-on-1 coaching, buddy systems, etc) have been steadily eroded. Which is a petty because in my experience it's clearly the fastest and most reliable way to get competent workers.

2023-03-16 13:33:31

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If you want some lukewarm takes, go for it 😂

2023-03-15 20:32:35

For anyone confused by the UK Budget today: The UK Government is going to bring inflation down from 10% to 2.9% by spending lots of money. Hope that clears it up?

2023-03-13 18:01:51

Can the global banking system please hold off on imploding for another halving cycle? Lightning, fedimints and the rest could do with a little more battle-hardening, thanks 👍
I meant, we'll make do if we have to, but it would be less stressful if the fiat death throws were a little more... gradual?

2023-03-11 16:53:14

Bitcoin is a form of money that incentivises civilizational behaviour

2023-03-04 15:49:14

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Oh I definitely don't mean to trivialise the task! It's far from trivial - but it is also super important imho. Time and effort are limited resources for both devs and non-devs. A laborious task for a Dev can save literally thousands of effort-hours for non-devs, and "If you really care you'll learn how" isn't an excuse that scales. Its only ever true for a comparatively small subset of potential users.

2023-03-04 15:30:14

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100% agree. Its INSANE to me that just getting shit installed onto your computer so you can try it out hasn't got any easier in the last 15 years. If anything, the proliferation of GitHub has made it even more confusing for non-devs.

2023-03-03 10:40:40

Nostr seems incompatible with GDPR. I wouldn't be surprised to see the EU get heavy handed with companies that touch nostr.
The distributed nature of relays make it so hard to truly purge data from the network.

2023-03-01 20:48:13

Right, time to get my head around zaps

2023-02-17 10:24:40

Also it's fun to see the clunkyness and chaos of bleeding edge tech. Having got used to everything being so slick recently I feel like I've got a lot more patience for jank... For now at least! I'm sure that will change in about a day 😂

2023-02-17 10:19:14

Man, Nostr isn't just twitter-but-decentralised, is it. Permanent notes. Being able to view anyone's feed from their PoV... I've only spent 10 mins on here and already seeing stuff that's genuinely a different paradigm. I have no idea if people will accept it, but if they do...

2023-02-15 21:09:48

Running nostr