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I just sold all my $ETH for $BTC I'm pretty confident it's the only right move.
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Took part in a rum tasting session on 27 March, and it was a ride across the Caribbean and beyond. From elegant Brazilian cachaça to bold Salvadoran high-ester rum, each bottle had a story—and a perfect pairing. Here’s a thread of my top picks and impressions 🥃🧵
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The real bottleneck for crypto adoption in France isn’t regulation or UX—it’s taxes. Under French law, *on-chain activity isn’t taxed* as long as you stay within the crypto ecosystem. You can swap, LP, stake, bridge all you want—no taxable event. But the second you convert crypto into fiat or use it to buy goods/services? Boom—taxable. And it's not capital gains like in the US. It's a *flat 30% tax* (PFU) on the *net gain* between the total value of your crypto sold and the average acquisition price of your entire portfolio. Miss that detail, and your whole déclaration can blow up 💥
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What better than a too windy Sunday to mount the sailplanes back to be ready for next flight. I'm no mechanic but master in 3m tape laying for aerodynamics.
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Nice weather this Saturday for the first thermals. Flew to them with our motor glider SF28. (Here pictured during cleaning)
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I like writing unit tests. Am I a perfectionist? Or am I… a monster?
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Tonight is a rum tasting session, so excited!
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Came across a fascinating piece by Eugenio Monti (a meteorologist and a climatologist, I read his takes on Windy newsletter) on a lesser-known side of climate change: global greening. Yes, CO2 is rising. Yes, temps are hitting records. But Monti highlights how some scientists—like Soviet climatologist Budyko—saw rising CO2 as a life-preserving force. More CO2 = more plant growth = potential boost in biodiversity. And it's happening: satellite data shows a 5% increase in global greenery over 20 years, even in Antarctica. Mosses are back on icy shores. But here’s the twist: much of this green surge is farmland, not forest. Soil degradation, monoculture, ecosystem loss. The green is real—but it's not always good. A must-read. Green Antarctica photo: Dan Charman
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I will try ChatGPT image generation every 10 minutes until they give me the update that allows to giblify
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Feeling like the only one at the party without the new GPT image gen access. Everyone’s out there turning pics into Ghibli and my GPT is still producing 6 fingered hands and tell me it can't use picture because he has policy preventing it to generate realistic humans. Why, god, why? FOMO.
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my first cast ever. Wanted to say something important and it still feels important.
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We have to stay very careful, they will try again later...
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Not here for gym selfies, latte art flexes, or dog content. But I get it—every non-crypto post is a small breadcrumb trail for normies. And yeah, I can smell the scent of mainstreaming from a mile away.
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Apple’s rule for iOS devs: max 100 test devices, and you can only reset that list once a year. That limit isn’t just annoying, it’s a trap. Accidentally waste IDs on your team’s iPads? Burned. Add a staging phone? Counted. Hit 100? You're done until the next annual reset. Feels more like DRM than dev support 🤷‍♂️
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Had to go to a physical bank today. Felt like time-traveling to a pre-crypto era where you ask strangers in suits for permission to touch your own money 🤡
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If AI can’t build the app you just described, you might not have failed but you might have stumbled onto a brand new idea.
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Watching Resident Alien and honestly having a blast. It’s like if E.T. had a midlife crisis and a dark sense of humour. Aliens pretending to be humans pretending to be normal—10/10 chaotic energy.
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Some of my shelves whisper stories. This one screams universe. Stephen Hawking is clearly running the show here, but next to him, Roger Penrose and Kip Thorne add quantum spice and spacetime flavor. Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy balances it all with uncertainty. There's The Geometry of Physics by Lochak, The Theory of Chaos by Gleick, The Grand Design and The Last Theorem of Fermat—because why not mix math legends with cosmology? And then Graeber crashes the party with thoughts on democracy. Because ideas are melting without the freedom to express yourself safely.
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Writing a clean sample for new devs to follow. Covers how to apply guidelines + how to write unit tests. Thinking about what to include next. What part of the dev process do you wish had a solid example when you joined? What’s the thing that slows you down the most when starting a new codebase?
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