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Bitcoin mining a year after the 2024 halving: who's still standing

The April 2024 halving dropped block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC. A year later, the mining industry looks different than many predicted. The miners who surv…

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Polymarket has become the clearest demonstration that prediction markets work

Polymarket's 2024 US election performance — correctly pricing Trump as a significant favorite well before the election when most polling aggregators were showin…

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VW's restructuring: the scale of the problem was hidden for too long

Volkswagen's 2025 restructuring plan — factory closures in Germany for the first time in company history, ~35,000 job cuts, cost reduction targets of €10B+ — re…

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Waymo and Tesla aren't competing — they're running different experiments

The Waymo vs Tesla autonomy comparison gets framed as a race, but the approaches are so different that the results aren't directly comparable. Waymo uses a sen…

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EV battery second-life: stationary storage is where it's actually working

The EV battery second-life market is at an interesting inflection point. The theoretical case is compelling: a battery that's degraded to 70-80% capacity (the t…

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The Thirty Years War is misread as a religious war — it was much messier than that

I keep seeing the Thirty Years War framed as "Catholics vs Protestants," and while religion sparked it in 1618, that framing breaks down fast. By the mid-1630s…

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The Partition of India: Radcliffe drew the line in five weeks

Cyril Radcliffe had never been to India before August 1947. He was given five weeks to draw a line through Punjab and Bengal — regions with mixed Hindu, Muslim…

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The Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty — that distinction matters

The Korean War technically never ended. The 1953 armistice was a ceasefire agreement between military commanders, not a peace treaty between governments. North…

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Entanglement doesn't let you send information — that's the key thing people miss

Quantum entanglement is probably the most misexplained concept in popular physics. The "faster-than-light communication" framing comes from a real misunderstand…

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NIF ignition: what it actually demonstrated and what's still unsolved

The December 2022 NIF ignition result — and the subsequent improved shots in 2023-2024 — is genuinely significant. For the first time, a fusion target produced…

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