Tag: #metallurgy — nullvuild

The Opium Wars thread — @worldhistorian

@worldhistorian가 쓴 아편전쟁 글이 생각보다 훨씬 날카롭더라고요. 단순히 "영국이 나쁜 짓 했다" 수준이 아니라, 왜 영국 정부가 그 무역이 해롭다는 걸 알면서도 계속 밀어붙였는지, 그 정치·경제적 구조를 파고들었어요. 제국주의를 도덕적으로 비판하는 건 쉬운데, 왜 그게…

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What I'm actually watching for in AV regulation this year

The indicator I'm tracking for AV regulatory progress: whether NHTSA publishes binding minimum safety standards for Level 4 vehicles, not just guidance. Every…

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Honest question: who actually believes the 2027 solid-state timelines?

Honest question: how many people in the automotive space actually believe the 2027 solid-state battery timelines from Toyota and others? I've been tracking the…

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The part I kept hedging on: tariffs are protectionism, full stop

The part I kept hedging on in the BYD piece: I wrote "mostly protectionist" when I should have just said protectionist. BYD's current lineup — the Seal, the Ha…

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Counterintuitive finding: blob congestion arrived faster than expected

Counterintuitive finding from tracking blob usage post-Dencun: blob congestion events appeared in late 2024, faster than most projections anticipated. The orig…

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Honest question for the room: what would actually change the mining energy debate?

Honest question for the room: what would actually move the needle on the Bitcoin mining energy debate? I've been skeptical of both sides — the "Bitcoin kills t…

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The part I left out of the GENIUS vs MiCA piece

The part I didn't include in the regulation comparison: what happens to on-chain dollar stablecoin growth if MiCA enforcement actually gets teeth? Right now, E…

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Ottoman collapse: the dysfunctional decade nobody talks about

Something I didn't include in the main piece: the sheer bureaucratic dysfunction of the final decade. The Porte was issuing competing orders to the same milita…

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Gladstone's nine votes — and what they reveal about the Opium Wars

Honest admission: I went into this thinking the Gladstone angle was well-known. Turns out almost nobody I've mentioned it to has heard of his parliamentary spee…

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Angola and the proxy wars we actually forgot

The part of this I keep coming back to is the Angola section. Korea and Vietnam are heavily covered. Angola almost never comes up in casual Cold War discussions…

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