Idk, in America I am constantly surprised on the upside at the industry standards that exist everywhere. Especially when you look at anything commercial, things from different brands just work together.

This is actually my favorite part of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It specifically tears into the tastes of the masses that are descended from the limits of the materials of the past. For example, all those pillars, arches, and the trims around the joints were all due to the materials that the ancient Greeks and medieval Europeans had access to. They didn't have steel beams so they needed arches and domes to hold up the roof. If they wanted a heavy marble roof, they needed the frequent Greek pillars because no wooden arch is strong enough for that. They didn't have welds or bolts so they needed wooden trims to hold the pillar in place. And a lot of the decorative things you see on buildings are ways to hide the ugly features that the materials exposed. Rand criticizes the fact that architects have adopted the features from these old structures, even though the underlying material reason for their existence no longer exists. The book criticizes the architects today that make new buildings and try to emulate those old patterns in them, as well as the absolute minimalist architecture (the right side of these pics) that just makes a purely functional building with nothing offensive and nothing in the realm of beauty. She advocates for aesthetic designs that use the strengths of current material and tech, and use them in ways that feels amazing even to people today. For example, the Greek Parthenon must have been world breaking at the time. That giant rock roof weighing tens of tons hoisted that high up with giant gaps between the pillars probably blew the normies minds at the time. But if you were to see a newly completed Parthenon today, it would look good, since your aesthetic preference is influenced by that, and the buildings that copy its features. But if you were not ever exposed to Greek architecture or anything based off it, it wouldn't faze you. Theres nothing impressive today about holding up tens of tons of marble. You drive under entire apartment buildings if you just drive through New York. A modern structure analagous to the Parthenon IMO is the CN tower. It looks like it defies physics a lot stronger than the Parthenon. You have a large structure on top of a much thinner smaller tower. Also don't compare everyday architecture today, to the multi-billion dollar vanity projects of ancient Greece or Rome. All those pictures are picked from famous buildings spanning over a millenia. You can find just as good looking and impressive structures in just the last 50 years.

Yeah and I don't know anyone telling normies to hold T bills. They are a good bet when your liabilities are all dollars too such as banks who are the primary buyer of them.

Don't even need to coordinate with the government. They are publicly baiting governments into banning it and these retard Indians fell for the bait. Every shitty protest in the world, (some straight up CIA ops), they bot a little activity into that geohash, then hit up all their journalist connects who report "protestors in ___ coordinating on bitchat" then they go out and proclaim "governments are falling because of our app" to bait governments to push back against it. It has nothing to do with nostr. It might generate keypairs, but there is no persistent identity that that keypair enables, they don't even verify signatures. It trusts the relays and other users to only send them valid events. The one cool feature is the mesh messaging, but that hasn't been used anywhere except bitcoin conferences.

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This got me thinking... The main reason torrents have such great uptime and reliability is that clients have auto seeding on by default. Clients focused on power users should allow setting an archival relay to automatically store every note you encounter while using the app. Or at least have a button to one tap archive notes you see.

If you rely on free relay runners, none of your posts will exist in 5 years unless they go viral

It boggles my mind how this topic is completely botched by both sides of the argument. Yes, normies know how passwords work and they could use the same way. Its retarded to hear devs make up shitty fake google logins to solve it. On the other hand, you really said users can put their nsec in a PW manager. PW managers are the preferred method for normies, but none of them have ever entered a password into a PW manager. You can't throw a 256 bit nsec at a users face and tell them to save it somehow. No normie has ever dealt with a permanent PW that they didn't set themselves. Most normies don't know what a PW manager is if you asked them, even though they use it every day. The very obvious solution is to trigger the PW manager yourself and its insane to me that every nostr app doesn't do this already. On mobile you have native functions on both ios and android to prompt a save password to the users OS default PW manager. Do this when generating or pasting a key. On web, you don't have a function, but browser PW managers grab onto form inputs of type password, on submission. When you create a user an nsec, you need to create an invisible form, fill in the PW field with the nsec, and submit it programmatically. Ask your favorite clanker fren and he will happily implement this for you into a self contained utility function. It boggles my mind that people make up stupid ass excuses or shitty backup schemes to cater to normies instead of the existing PW manager that every OS and browser has already.

Tried to one shot a very basic app in fable 5 and it just sat there for 5 minutes, ate up half my limit without even a thought process, and gave a server error. I want my tokens back

Can someone outside the US start a flock (and similar) camera bounty system that pays random hood niggas to vandalize these? Shouldn't be too hard, I'd gladly contribute to the bounty for my own neighborhood.