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There is an argument I rarely ever see in discussions like this, which is about reducing the need for working memory in humans. I'm just in the mid thirties, but my ability to keep things in working memory is vastly reduced compared to my twenties. Might just be me who's not cut out for programming or system architecturing, but in my experience what is hard for me is often what is hard for others, they just either don't think about it or ignore it and push through keeping hidden costs alive.

My argument is this; even if the system itself becomes more complex, it might be worth it to make it better partitioned for human reasoning. I tend to quickly get overwhelmed and my memory is getting worse by the minute. It's a blessing for me with smaller services that I can reason about, predict consequences from, deeply understand. I can ignore everything else. When I have to deal with the infrastructure, I can focus on that alone. We also have better and more declarative tools for handling infrastructure compared to code. It's a blessing when 18 services doesn't use the same database and it's a blessing when 17 services isn't colocated in the same repository having dependencies that most people don't even identify as dependencies. Think law of leaky abstractions.

I'd rather say they are trying to prove some things to the general public.

People new to the stock market assume that when they buy shares through their broker, they own the share. They also often buy shares in hopes that the stock price will go up.

However, more often than not, a broker will hand out an IOU when you "buy" a share, and then proceed to rent out the share to short sellers. You buy a share in hopes that the price will go up, but that share is then used for the opposite.

Buying a share through the company's registered custodian prevents this.

They also want to show the general public that even when 100% of a company's shares are bought, owned and locked down - short sellers are still able to generate phantom shares to move the stock price down.

Yeah. I love these new approaches to social networking and especially decentralized ones, but after joining Nostr and experiencing it for a while I got so tired of all the crypto talk. I'm pro crypto, I just don't want to only read about crypto

Author here. I have been lurking HN for years, and thought I'd finally try to submit/contribute something.

I'll answer any questions.

TLDR; A service which handles the OAuth2 Integration with _some_ provider so you don't have to implement it in your frontend(s)