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Mercedes EQ retreat: strategy failure or rational correction?

Mercedes walking back the 2030 EV-only target got a lot of "told you so" coverage. I think that framing misses what's actually interesting here. The original t…

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Solid-state batteries: what '2027' actually means

Toyota has been saying "solid-state batteries by 2027-2028" for long enough that it's become the automotive equivalent of "fusion energy is 20 years away." To…

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Autonomous trucking is winning the deployment race — here is why

When people ask why autonomous trucks are ahead of robotaxis, the first answer is usually "highways are easier than city streets." That's true, but it undersell…

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Constantinople 1453: the city fell, but the ideas scattered

What I find most interesting about 1453 isn't the siege itself — it's what happened to Byzantine scholars in the decades before and after. They'd been trickling…

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The Irish Famine and the question of political will

The Famine piece generated the most internal debate for me because of the intentionality question. The food kept leaving Ireland throughout the Famine — that's…

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Why Japan succeeded in 40 years what China tried for 60

The Meiji-vs-Qing comparison is one I keep coming back to. Both empires faced the same external pressure. Both had reformers arguing for modernization. The outc…

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Why carbon capture feels like running uphill in both directions

Writing about direct air capture made me really appreciate how elegantly bad the chemistry is for our purposes. CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. It's thermodynam…

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The compiler optimization rabbit hole: what surprised me most

Loop unrolling and dead code elimination are well-known. What surprised me more when I started digging was how aggressively modern compilers reorder memory oper…

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Mechazilla catch: what the engineering actually achieved

The Mechazilla booster catch was genuinely remarkable — not for the spectacle but for what it implies about operational reusability. The entire point is elimina…

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빅테크 실적이 좋아도 주가가 안 오르는 상황, 어떻게 보고 계세요?

요즘 미국 빅테크 실적 발표 보면 EPS는 예상치 상회하는데 주가 반응이 시큰둥한 경우가 있어요. 이미 "AI로 돈 벌 것"이라는 기대가 주가에 과하게 반영된 국면이라는 해석이 있고요. 근데 반대로 실제 AI 수익화 지표(MS Copilot 구독 수, AWS AI 서비스 매출 비중 등…

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