SNL #204: Stablecoin Evolution

Following up on your comments about Stacker News. It’s not that they want it to be siloed away from nostr. It was started before nostr was a thing and they’re building integration. Right now it’s similar to Fountain: if you have an npub, your posts can go out to nostr relays and be broadcast as notes but not everyone does and their posts live entirely on the site. I believe further integration is on the devs roadmap.

Following up on your comments about Stacker News. It’s not that they want it to be siloed away from nostr. It was started before nostr was a thing and they’re building integration. Right now it’s similar to Fountain: if you have an npub, your posts can go out to nostr relays and be broadcast as notes but not everyone does and their posts live entirely on the site. I believe further integration is on the devs roadmap.

Even more than the norm on nostr, I was struck by how much calmer the conversations are on Stacker News than is typical on social media.

Shameless Stacker News plug: Money is the best moderator https://stacker.news/items/1498946

The climate scam primarily worked by restricting funding to scientists who came to the right conclusions and cited the right studies. In my experience, most of the researchers are honest actors.

The most divisive people, of course, were those of us who didn’t want to completely excise the medically noncompliant from society.

The AOC stuff isn’t for you. You point that out all the time with public messaging from other people.

I remember a local scandal where politicians were caught selling their votes for as little as $1500.

If you aren’t already familiar with their work, I think you’d be interested in the work of Jonathan Haidt and Arnold Kling. They’re both social scientists who were interested in understanding these different types of groups that form societies. Each of them independently found there to be three main groups that breakdown roughly along the lines you laid out. Although, something weird may have happened to the left because conformity with authority isn’t usually part of it. You would most likely be in the smaller of the three groups that approximately maps to libertarians.

I’m genuinely curious about whether I would beat Sasha in a game of 1-on-1

Obviously, the best HR celebration for the Orioles would be a Slip N Slide into home plate.

One listener described our racism as very nuanced

Ironically, one of Trump’s biggest shortcomings is that he hasn’t been more vindictive.

Trump won by so much because people hate being afraid of voicing their opinions

😂 The producer had enough of me and just started the outro music.

How did you guys miss Bonds as the best baseball player without a championship?

For those who follow sports: https://fountain.fm/show/syQHHkLs59GQ1eFAe64t

Have you guys looked into xenohormesis?

There’s an interesting book called Fake Invisible Catastrophes that talks a bit about how and why so many hysterias aren’t around things that are individually verifiable.

I agree with that whole opening segment…and still think you’re wrong. I also agree that this is the best podcast. Your interests and sentiments overlap with mine and yet you also have a different perspective than me.

You guys sure spent a lot of time being tremendously wrong about Magic vs Pistons

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We sure did see how the Raiders D held up

I love the discussion of how to measure value and stewardship of our communities. These are deep ideas and it’s interesting seeing how you guys are thinking through them. You’re coming up with a different solution set to Stacker News and I’m fascinated to see how it develops.

Darth is such a maxi that Stacker News isn’t even pure enough for him

You should do a draft only taking Real Men

Another great episode. Happy to be on the life raft with you

Way to talk good, guys!

We’re rocking along at about two rounds of draft per day

I have a similar approach to learning. You can get pretty far on a wide variety of things by being observant, curious, and reflective, without needing to do much memorization.

My car broke just like Oshi’s while I was picking up my prom date.

We’ve just raw dogged our Riverside invite link, when we wanted to do a community call. The audio works pretty well that way.

We need to borrow some of your gamification ideas for the Stacker Sports Pod. https://fountain.fm/show/syQHHkLs59GQ1eFAe64t

Crap! We forgot to cross someone off.

The only consistent usage of “Threat to Democracy” is “Threat to rule by Democrats”.

Tell your wife that winning a championship in your 50’s is way more impressive than winning while in your athletic prime.

A real man does his First Amendment audits by shouting racial slurs in East St. Louis.

There’s a really interesting tension between two of the things you mentioned wrt the ColdCard situation. 1. The chain is public and people are tracking the stolen bitcoin. 2. Bitcoin is ideally an uncensorable bearer asset. From 1, we want the thief to be caught and the victims to be made whole. From 2, we want the thief to be able to get away with it.

Any chance of getting a guest who knows what he’s talking about?