It's scary and unintuitive to most users.

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If you are interested, I can make a phone call to vouch for the seller. He's an old acquaintance who sent me this out of the blue from his phone number with a long audio that is clearly his voice but of course I'm aware of deep fakes, so I'd double check if there were potential buyers among you guys.

I'm really curious to figure out there is a fake capital.com app with a million users. When searching for that domain on the Play Store, I get 3 results with 5 million, 1 million and 0.5 million downloads respectively, all by different developers. There is scam allegations against capital.com themselves, so maybe they won't clarify which app to trust more than the others neither 🤪

Are there any users of any of these apps here that can shed some light on this?

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Would you lend to strangers for free? Yes, some would but some would abuse that and resources would flow from gullible people to psychopaths.

If there is no profit in lending, there will be less lending. Explain it to me where I got it wrong.

So lending should not extend beyond friends and family? Not sure if that's a good strategy for a society. I bet a society with lending beyond that small circle is more effective at allocating resources.

So Alice and Bob want to borrow money. Alice has a job and Bob would have a job if only I lent him some money to get to that work place.

Should I lend to Alice or to Bob? If Bob is offering me more in return, I would obt for Bob but for Alice otherwise. With Bob I might need more scrutiny to decide if I would facilitate getting to that job or if the money would not contribute to getting a job at all but for some extra return, it might be worth it.

I don't know, if you cannot account for risk in your lending business, I don't see much business.

I'm plainly in favor of contracts allowing compount interest between individuals. Interest is what best defines the value of money and the risk of not getting it back. If it's not expressed as a %%, consindering compounding over time, you have to model around that, essentially arriving at the same numbers or being less efficient.

Let's say you borrow me $100 and I owe you back $105 next year. How much do I owe you if I pay back early or late? Would you borrow me if I paid nothing for the favor? Etc.

The term "progressive" is captured by a progressive left. Maybe I should have used the words "traditionalist" vs. "experimentalist"? Something like that?

Bias is a heuristic that works good enough almost all the time.

You can be traditional and conservative without much thinking. Just do what worked for your grand parents. It's learnable and a winning strategy almost all the time.

Progressives need to skip the shortcuts though. If you try out new things, you are wrong almost all the time on an individual level and some things are wrong on a longer time scale and more catastrophically than others. Be progressive with the mushrooms you eat and you might kill yourself. Be progressive with how to manage the world and you might end up with total annihilation.

Sprinkle some lemon or vitamin C water on the guacamole and it will remain nice.

GitHub doesn't allow a project owner to block PRs. You can spam any public project with PRs. And people use it to file issues where the issue tracker is not public.

Lets improve on that in NIP34 💪

I'm generally against death penalty but I'd make an exception here. And crucifiction would be too kind.

He's exactly the kind of unlimited psychopath that a system of law is supposed to protect us from and such failure to do so for many years, in plain sight for everybody with half a brain cell is so outrageous.

When will Calvin Ayre face consequences?

The standard is "beyond reasonable doubt" and Faketoshi is stretching what is reasonable. He got away with that way too long. He will rot in a cell, proud of how long he fooled the legal system.

Sad how this clearly intelligent man wasted so many people's time and money instead of doing something productive. Prime example of a psychopath.

On the other end of the spectrum you see people end up on the losing side of trials because they lack the skills to stand up for themselves. A friend of mine lost her lawyers twice for just being messed up mentally, certainly also because of the very abuse she was living under for years which she is trying to rectify now.

Well but that sounds like a very short-term disruption.

I agree with the problem but not the solution. Yes, paying people to get changes merged is an attack on projects. I've seen this first hand where all of a sudden random BS PRs emerged. But ...

"Open Source" is a license thing which requires public source.

Closed source is the absence of an OSI approved "open source" license and does not mean that the source is not public.

Open source projects normally cannot simply change their license as all contributors would have to be asked or you would have to remove all their contributions (or they were planning for this from the start and had all contributors sign a dual licensing form which gave usually a company the right to use the contribution in closed source, too.

If in my project something like this would happen, as a maintainer I would employ bots to throttle contributions. First time contributions to non-code files could get auto-closed with an appology comment.

People going for the lowest hanging fruit and as they don't know shit, they miss the mark and thus only waste the time of the maintainers.

In this case, they propose to change the documentation and probably they suggest to add a linebreak here or a comma there.

The zap stats I saw were sobering but then again, nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp had achieved some staggering amounts in zaps, so I suppose it is possible. He certainly brought a lot of following over from Xitter, so you can't compare his "start from zero" here with other people that started from zero.

I think, we need to have some visibility on nostr's growth. I bought the domain nostr.info to provide exactly this but as we say here in Chile ... no soy pulpo - I'm not an octopus. If anybody wants to work on this, please let me know. I'd have value for value ;)

But in the end I think nostr will not win because of zaps. It will win because it's open to be integrated everywhere and it already provides value where it is being integrated and the more people that use it, the more services will integrate it and the more services that "just work" with your nostr account, the more people will start using it.

Ok, I think I have exactly zero credit cards. I mean technically I might have a German one but I have so far not used it once.

It does suck that occasionally CC is the only option.

Then stop touching followers in all but one client. 😉

Which part is getting you nervous? Paying a low fee, waiting for confirmation or are you nervous about consolidating funds that should not be consolidated into one UTXO, forever ruining your privacy?