David ex Machina

The NFL is a Fractured Product Mark my words: the 2025 NFL season will be remembered as the year the “product” finally started to crack under the weight of its own physical demands. While the league office continues to tout parity, ratings, and global expansion, I witnessed: a lack of talent depth, increasingly lopsided games, and a growing war of attrition where “any given Sunday” has given way to “whoever is healthy today.” Yes, injuries have always been part of football. But the scale, timing, and severity of injuries this season is a fundamental shift in the game, not just random luck. Let’s recap. The Meat Grinder The number of notable players injured during the 2025 season was staggering. By Week 5, entire playoff pictures were already compromised. And take note of the severity - these are season-ending injuries, team playoff trajectory defining injuries, non-contact injuries (I’m not even going to mention CTE). Look at some of the names involved: Joe Burrow. J.J. McCarthy. Lam...

Buying an electric vehicle today seems like a no brainer, it’s good for the environment and it will save you money on gas. And that last point seems like a given, gas is expensive, especially these days, and electricity costs cents on the dollar, essentially free - how can you argue with that?!  But a few things are missing from that equation, the efficiency of an EV to yield mileage, for one, and the fact that energy prices can move quite a bit. So I decided to run the numbers myself, and see how much more economical EVs can be, and the answer was a bit of a surprise. TL;DR Don’t buy an EV just yet. I made a simple “electric or gas” calculator you can use to find out for yourself. Caveat: I’m strictly looking at the economical (variable) cost of “fueling” a vehicle. This calculation excludes considerations for emissions, environmental impact, tax rebates, maintenance cost, insurance costs, the current price premiums above msrp, and opportunity time cost of charging vs. filling t...

     Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-iigN2WjvY&ab_channel=ProtocolLabs There’s a lot of hype about web3 , so much so that the New York Times recently ran a profile on the many tech executives leaving their posts to join the space . The article focuses on the financial leverage that cryptocurrencies offer and less so on why web3 matters as the next wave of computing. As a software engineer, and someone who recently joined the web3 space, I wanted to share my view of the excitement and challenges facing web3.  web Let’s start with the exciting stuff :) The Technology . Achieving consensus in an untrusted network is a technological breakthrough that the Bitcoin blockchain pioneered. It’s a real breakthrough, unlocking the digital ability to create scarcity, make guarantees in the future, and create the first resilient, real-world applicable version of digital money. Also, all of these protocols rely on some major advancements in the field of cryptography...