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It's not my habit, but today I need your help. For real.
The sailplane club in Rouen, France, is being under attack by people who want to destroy a non-profit association, its community and all the knowledge, friendship and environmental consciousness for the sake of building more industrial activity.
Please, aviatio...
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I've always thought we should write laws with git too.
A pitch deck is a lossy compression of reality tuned for maximum appeal. A pitch .md in a GitHub repo is version-controlled, forkable, and transparent.
You can see the entire history of how the founders described their own company.
That's a better signal than gradient fills.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-pitc
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Some important reminders trop the 1930s:
"The fictitious money that states are now producing on a massive scale."
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"real money can never be created in this way. A banknote does not become money simply because the state designates it as such and forces the population to consider it as such."
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"However, it is rare ...
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After 10+ years in crypto, I have a new correlation to drive my investment decisions.
The better the t-shirt quality and graphic design at a booth or launch, the higher the probability the project fails or rugs.
Good branding is not a signal of substance. It is often a signal of budget allocation.
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That's why open source wallets are important
Most things Walletbeat looks for can be evaluated in one of two ways:
1️⃣: "Just use the wallet bro": Check that a feature exists or not by using the wallet. Example: does it resolve ENS addresses when sending tokens? Does it have a token recipient address book somewhere?
2️⃣ "Black-box testing": Run the wallet in a
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Tricking people into clicking a link and then they land on X is treason to me
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What about countries shutting down internet connection completely? How can we also be immune to being unplugged?
In 2014, there was a vision: you can have permissionless, decentralized applications that could support finance, social media, ride sharing, governing organizations, crowdfunding, potentially create an entire alternative web, all on the backs of a suite of technologies.
Ethereum: the blockchain. The world computer tha
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Bored of aviation organisation software that is not free, often not better than side projects in terms of quality or support. So I started building my own.
First step is an airfield webcam capture software running on Raspberry Pi. Simple, reliable, and easy to deploy.
Next on the list is a club aircraft booking syste...
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