Engineering
Who Was Paying for Mars?
Starlink's customers funded the frontier. Five weeks after the IPO, they got the bill.
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The Card Trick
How actuarial software vendors sell a graphics-card number they can't deliver on the models that actually matter
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The Cost-Exchange Trap: How Cheap Drones Broke the Arithmetic of Air Defence
The headline numbers are arresting, but they describe the wrong problem. The real crisis in drone warfare is not a pricing problem — it is a reserving problem, and defenders are being forced into a hedging programme with permanently negative expected value.