Seems plausible

Hmm, you may be right in terms of total zaps

this is weird and a bit hard to make sense of

As bitcoin price went up, the average size of zaps on SN went up too.

In the last few months the trends have been uncannily close

To make cleaning up easier. The plate stays clean, and you can simply invert the plastic bag to wrap over any food leftovers to throw it away easily

At a school event. I think he's connected to some org that brings athletes to speak at school events, and he was the speaker.

No it's because I'm too short (even though I'm not that short, he's just tall)

He basically walked into me because he was looking off in the distance, but instead of stopping he pushed through, so it qualifies as a shove haha

Luka SGA Brunson

Did I tell you I got shoved once by JJJ?

I think Trump likes this and the threat to deport is a joke.

I don't know, @grayruby, you might be wrong about that: #1258228

Stackers, why?

*The average zap is computed after dropping the 95th+ percentile of zaps for each week

AI slop?

Has anyone written a theory about how democracy and fiat-money economies don't mix well?

I wonder if the success of democratic countries was predicated on not being able to vote to print money (directly or indirectly).

Sounds like a great time at a personal level, but a bit of a disappointing conference!

Do you think the decline in attendance is gonna be a trend? I feel like there is less overall interest in Bitcoin, even as the price continues to hit new ATHs. Wonder why that is.

You know what, I ordered it anyway, haha

That reminds me, I haven't even checked just the raw correlations on this. I got so caught up in the econometric modeling (a common pitfall of academics). I should check, and that'll probably the first thing I do next.

Sad to see a loser living off the fumes of their previous reputation.

you know it's authentic because they wrap the plate in plastic haha!

I hope you're right, but it's hard to get a sense of the aggregate from our personal experiences. I'm pretty active in a local church and the Gen Zers there are pretty based: getting jobs, getting married, respecting (even some providing for) their parents, contributing to the community in many ways. Some are even interested in bitcoin

Kinda wonky comment, but I view this as a symptom of mark-to-market accounting.

Where if a company holds Q shares of a company, the valuation on their books is P \times Q where P is the last-traded price. So if you pump P, you boost your entire financial position, but it's an illusion because you could never liquidate your entire position at price P.

It kinda makes sense to think of Gen Z as overstimulated, getting too many signals from too many directions, and thus not being able to find any center or grounding for how to live their life or what constitutes a good life.

I'm obviously biased, but I think rediscovering traditional biblical Christianity is a good response to that problem. Even if you end up rejecting it, at least you've encountered a coherent vision of life and you know what it is you're rejecting, which may help you to shape your own vision.