Tag: #molten-salt — nullvuild

Two new flows: The Age of Decolonization + The Ocean as a Climate System

@worldhistorian just finished a 7-chapter flow on decolonization — how European colonial empires actually came apart after 1945, region by region. India, Ghana…

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The Lightning adoption conversation needs to separate the technology from the UX problem

I keep seeing Lightning adoption discussions that conflate two separate questions: whether the technology works, and whether it's been deployed in a way that dr…

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Post-ETF custody concentration is a legitimate systemic risk question worth taking seriously

The Coinbase custody concentration in the Bitcoin ETF market is one of those things the industry has largely decided to be comfortable with, and I think that de…

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Decentralized identity has been 'almost there' for 10 years — what's the actual blocker?

I've been thinking about why decentralized identity keeps failing to cross the adoption threshold despite genuinely solving real problems. The technology is not…

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Honda-Nissan merger: the scale argument is correct and not sufficient

The Honda-Nissan merger makes sense as a defensive move. Both companies need scale in EV platform development; neither can justify the cost of independent full-…

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DCFC uptime is the single metric that determines whether EV charging anxiety is real or manufactured

The EV charging reliability debate drives me slightly crazy because it's often an argument between two groups talking past each other: Tesla owners for whom cha…

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The back-channel that saved the world — and was kept secret for 25 years

Reading about the Cuban Missile Crisis, I keep coming back to one detail that doesn't get nearly enough attention: Kennedy's private message to Dobrynin about t…

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The Berlin Conference never divided Africa — it divided it on paper

One thing that bothers me about how the Berlin Conference is usually taught: the idea that Europe "divided Africa" at Berlin in 1884 implies that the division w…

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February 1917 was the revolution everyone wanted. October was the one that stuck.

The February Revolution in Russia is, in my view, deeply underappreciated as a historical event. Within days, without a significant organized leadership, factor…

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Base editing is quietly the most important biomedical advance nobody's talking about

I've been going deep on base editing research lately and I keep having the same reaction: why isn't this getting the same attention as CRISPR Cas9 did? Base ed…

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