Thomas

@aviationdoctor.eth

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Browsing the various wake-up melodies available on the iPhone’s alarm clock app, only to realize I have PTSD when I play the default one (Early Riser) I am Pavlov’s neurotic night owl

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The perfect Pareto car doesn’t exi—

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In similar fashion to @levelsio’s story: I live abroad but need to pay for an electricity bill for a property in France. EDF (the power utility) offers automated payments, but only if you have a bank account in France — they can’t auto-charge a credit card. They also send me paper invoices by snail mail which take weeks to reach me overseas… usually after the deadline for payment. I asked to sign up for e-invoices, but it’s only available to people who are signed up for auto-payment, i.e., the people who need them the least Those legacy companies are so archaic https://x.com/levelsio/status/1864303735406481795

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Some poor sod(s) unwittingly contributing to the burn right now https://beaconcha.in/validators/slashings

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Babe, wake up, a virtual coin has crossed some arbitrary threshold expressed in a fiat currency whose own value is rooted in the collective belief system of one particular species of primates

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On the X app, I have to resort to what I call tactical browsing — carefully avoiding some threads not because they aren’t somewhat interesting in that moment, but because opening them will tell the algo to feed me more of that content. The diet analogy is that I might enjoy some greasy comfort food right about now, but there’s a chef watching what I pick and he’ll feed me only that going forward. It’s a mental burden having to constantly worry about what to read or like. I appreciate not having that concern on Warpcast

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Solid take. In my industry (aviation), air cargo transports just 1% of the world’s trade by volume, but 35% by value. There’s a demand market for speed. There’s also a market for trustlessness / resilience / Lindyness / credible neutrality. And there’s a market for inexpensive transactions. Ethereum is well positioned for all three https://x.com/viktorbunin/status/1862869234742624298

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My weekly supplement stack, morning (blue) and evening (purple): From @bryanjohnson’s Blueprint protocol: - Red yeast rice + odor-free garlic - NAC + ginger + curcumin - Essential softgel - Essential capsules From my own stack: - Nattokinase for HCL/LCL control - L-theanine for relaxation - Magnesium for sleep - Lion’s mane mushroom for cognition - Age-appropriate multivitamin complex - Omega-3 - Vitamin D-3 Not pictured: - NMN (precursor to NAC) - Semax (nasal injection nootropic)

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PSA to claim your Swell Wavedrop 1 starting today (https://app.swellnetwork.io/earn/portfolio)

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Best Devcon ever, Tornado Cash sanctions being reversed, Alex Jones mocking flat Earthers on X, Hawk Tuah girl launching her meme token six months too late, Sqlana manlets moving the casino to Base, Jim Cramer shilling Bitcoin at a local top, a new US cabinet department named after a meme coin, Saylor cooking up the next big Ponzi. So many conflicting market signals right now

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“In late 2022, OFAC […] blacklisted Tornado Cash for its role in laundering virtual currency for malicious cyber actors. The […] users of Tornado Cash […] argue that Tornado Cash’s inclusion on the SDN [Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons] list exceeded OFAC’s statutory authority. The district court disagreed […] Contrary to the [Treasury] Department’s arguments, the immutable smart contracts are not services. So even when we consider OFAC’s regulatory definitions, the immutable smart contracts are not property because they are not ownable, not contracts, and not services. […] We hold that OFAC exceeded its statutory authority […] Accordingly, we reverse and remand to the district court with instructions to grant [the plaintiffs] partial motion for summary judgment.” — US Court of Appeals, Nov. 26, 2024 Massive W for Ethereum, cypherpunk values, & crypto in general. The TC contract address might soon get removed from the OFAC’s SDN 🎉 No more censorship FUD either

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Ok, new idea to speedrun this whole meme coin mania into the ground and put it behind us. You may be familiar with the Library of Babel website — it uses an algorithm to procedurally generate every possible book of 410 pages with 40 lines of 80 characters each. The number of combinations is 32 possible characters raised to the power of 410 x 40 x 80 = 32^1,312,000. In similar fashion, let’s just let loose a @clanker on steroids that programmatically starts creating every possible token in alphabetical order at the fastest possible rate, starting with all one-letter names, then two-letter names, etc. That way, if you can think of a token, it already exists somewhere and has zero value. Suck any meaning, however flimsy, out of token creation

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Ok, so we have a bot that can create tokens automatically. The next logical step is to let this or another bot execute its own trades, initially with some crude buy-low-sell-high logic. And every time the bot reaches a threshold of gains, it converts the excess into ETH and burns it. Perpetual deflation (or at least until the bot runs out of money)

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I've built a thing — a dashboard which shows the amount of climate change expected at airports in the 21st century according to the latest generation of climate models. It allows you to pick any of the world's ~900 largest airports, choose one of four climate scenarios from most to least optimistic, and see how much change is predicted to happen in the air temperature, pressure, and humidity at that location up to the year 2100. This work is a derivative of my doctoral research. Link to the dashboard: https://aviationdoctor.shinyapps.io/futureairport/ Link to the GitHub repo (which also explains the methodology): https://github.com/TheAviationDoctor/FutureAirport/ Link to the full research for those interested: https://commons.erau.edu/edt/720/

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If the last ten years have taught me anything, it’s the importance of patience and thoughtfulness in decision making. I used to hold a double-digit stack of BTC, and sold them all in 2015 in protest of both the project’s technical direction (small blocks, Segwit, Lightning, etc.) and abusive straying from its cypherpunk roots (censorship, Blockstream’s capture, etc). In hindsight, it was an expensive mistake, because the upside of hodling (now I the millions of dollars) was at least two orders of magnitudes greater than the downside (tens of thousands). I wish I had read Antifragile and learned to navigate asymmetrical bets sooner. Not long after, I also resigned in protest of being passed for Partner promotion at a Big Four, against the advice of my peers. I eventually made it at a different firm, but I took a needlessly circuitous route to get there. 1/3

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The AI Trump vs AI Biden channel on Twitch has been updated to replace the latter with AI Kamala. Still as good as ever: https://www.twitch.tv/trumporkamala2024

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Lots of grumpy gamers have complained about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 experience on launch night — mostly due to server congestion (the game relies heavily on streaming). I downloaded it last night and am happy to report a smooth experience. This is a wonderfully detailed digital twin of the world, and arguably the best 3D map of our planet in existence today, in which you are free to roam at any height or speed. It's a wonderful achievement and definitely worth your money and time. The video below does a great job at explaining how the studio behind the game achieved this incredible feat of rendering the whole world with such fidelity. Highly recommended watch. It even turns poetic at around the 39-minute mark. https://youtu.be/JIQxJWoKcPs

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Yeah the Cosmos series is cool but this remains the best space documentary https://youtu.be/FYJ1dbyDcrI

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I vote for the Ethereum Foundation to buy the Chrome browser (assuming the federal judge follows the US DoJ’s recommendation to carve it out from Google). We could then instantly deploy a native Ethereum wallet to 3.5B users

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The generic hotel experience, based on years of international road warrioring: 🧵 1/4 The check in agent must spend eight minutes mysteriously typing away at their computer and running back and forth to their colleague at the next counter while you stand there. Checking in online, indicating your arrival time, getting your digital room key on the app, being a regular guest, etc. does not change that at all. When you first enter the room, the TV is always on, blasting obnoxious muzak on loop, and displaying “Welcome” followed by your last name in all caps. Your first order of business will be to frantically locate the hidden remote. Your next order of business will be to collect and put away all the random cards, leaflets, welcome letters, spa information, and no smoking reminders that litter the bed, bedside tables, desk, and minibar countertop, like in a deranged mini Easter egg hunt sans the yummy chocolate.

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