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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cameri; my proof: https://keybase.io/cameri/sigs/GKWyUORFV55gtpHjIewKFWbKUiEudxdT0UmPpb_5XIE ]

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If you are just looking to massage the numbers so there are more first homes vs second homes percentage-wise without creating new first homes, then taxing luxury second homes may work. It has great potential to change the numbers on a spreadsheet.

Decreasing the number of secondary homes for the wealthy _does not_ create more first homes people can realistically afford though.

This guy fails to communicate properly how others can and should contribute to his project. I see this all the time where the standards of a project aren't properly documented so the reviewer/maintainer just wastes time reviewing the same thing thousands of times until they give up.

Nostr 10 months ago

Do you wanna change social media? Try and find and effective way to bring them down.

You don't change social media by building yet another closed protocol. You'd be building more of the same. The only option left is to build open protocols, and nostr is another attempt. Checkmate.

Nostr 10 months ago

Could you elaborate on "JSON is not a cryptographer's best friend"? JSON is not a dog, for example, but that doesn't tell much.

Nostr 10 months ago

For identities to be truly decentralized, there's no one you could run to to ask permission to change your password. Either you own your identity, or someone else does.

Your identity, BinaryIgor only exists in ycombinator, and for as long as ycombinator allows it, and only ycombinator can allow you to change your password. I can't recall how accounts are created here, but likely it also depends on linking it to your email identity as well. If ycombinator disappears, your identity goes down with it.

- Bitwarden: took a couple of “lost my password” to convince everyone to use it - Bring: we collaborate on shopping list with this - ChatGPT Plus: we use it for work and even to organize our meals for camping - Home Assistant: useful automations around the home - Splitwise: great way to split bills back when I lived with a roommate… Now mostly use it for trips with friends & family

Mastodon does not solve the problem stated above. In Nostr you don't have to be jumping from instance to instance and losing all your stuff every time in the process.

Mastodon is clearly inferior to Nostr when it comes to having a decentralized identity.

You can build software on protocols like this.

Your analogy fails at the mere fact that no physical harm can result from Nostr not solving this one thing you think is 100% necessary.

The fact that Nostr is up and running and working is the undeniable fact that you don't NEED to solve every single problem known to humankind before you write some lines of code.