Performance Benchmarks (Validated)
yup, 100% totally validated.
It's like when you buy something thats wayy too cheap for what it should be off of Temu and it shows up with a QC and Validation card that they clearly just print on a large sheet and cut down that says QC OK
Block used to just be called Square, and was the company that made Square and Cash App, but changed its name to Block after Jack Dorsey left Twitter (he was also one of the co-founders of Block). iirc, Jack got really into blockchain and all that kind of stuff
That was a really interesting interview.
I liked that he did have some advice for the new Xbox boss at the end, basically "go talk to other people who have held similar positions in other games companies, like Reggie Fils-Aime. Tho he does seem pretty convinced that the new boss' job will really be to kill off Xbox in order to make more room for AI
They did announce recently that they're gonna stop making and selling the Model S and Model X and put more emphasis on humanoid robots and AI instead of cars. Everything over there in Muskland seems so terribly chaotic.
i wonder if the saturation of Superbowl ads about one thing being an indicator of a bubble about to burst is kinda analogous to how getting on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and then seeing someone from that list get arrested for fraud isn't terribly surprising
Using flowing sand in a thermal battery is interesting. They're flowing cold sand through an electric heater to heat it up and store that heat, then flowing the hot sand as one of the fluids through a heat exchanger with whatever you're actually trying to heat, whether its air or water or oil, and then storing the now cold sand to be reheated.
I guess if you have some way of concentrating and dumping industrial heat into the sand, that could replace the electric heater and let it run off of some existing industrial process
The city’s enforcement data from 2021-25 shows 129 scooters seized, 74 impounded, 53 vendor warnings, 13 vendor citations, 3,016 rider warnings, 51 rider citations, five guns seized and eight arrests. No deaths were reflected in the city's data. Meanwhile, Houston last year recorded its deadliest year on record for vehicle drivers, passengers and pedestrians, with 345 people killed on Houston-area streets, a record high after two years of declines.
over 300 people died last year because of car accidents vs 0 from e-bikes and scooters in the past 4 years and you're gonna put a curfew on the e-bikes???
