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>> Poland was the first country to make a remarkable peaceful transition from a bankrupt, failed Soviet satellite state. In what sense? Czechia is richer per capita. Almost all of …

Until someone calls your bluff, perhaps accidentally, and realizes much of the nuclear saber-rattling was just that. Of course, since it wasn't entirely a bluff, this is the easies…

To date, there have been no confirmed exomoon detections. So hopefully they'll do a better job than we have so far.

Due Process is being denied to US citizens, who are being removed from the country without the opportunity for them or their parents to consult an attorney.

The point is that the title and article misspell (in two different ways) his second name.

Got 8/15, best AI model got 7/15, and unigram got 1/15. Finally a use for all the wasted hours I’ve spent on HN — my next word prediction is marginally better than that of the AI.

Some sources do write ep after en passant captures. As you point out, it’s no more redundant than notating checks.

Well we certainly do agree that artillery will not be the primary weapon of choice in any naval war! I do appreciate your point of view, but I maintain that in a lengthy land war w…

It’s disingenuous to claim without citation that the US does not anticipate using artillery as one (of many) primary weapons in a land conflict against a near-peer adversary. The f…

Atomic weapons emerged slightly before the first craft to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, but we’re still nowhere near interstellar travel. On the other hand, the difficulty of space…

I’m sure you realize that Arnold didn’t get that big just through chicken and broccoli…

It is incredibly insulting to neanderthals to make an unsubstantiated comparison between them and politicians.

The author does not even attempt to analyze the safety impact of removing the second stair. The only evidence they provide is that Western Europe has fewer fire deaths than the US.…

This only emphasizes the need for NATO to reinvest in radar-guided anti-aircraft guns. Frankly, it's a bit troubling that the Europeans have been so slow to respond to the war in U…

Oops! Definitely. It actually looks to have been a clever use of irony. The internet is such a hard place to be clever though, in that people tend to take things at face value.

Cop kills someone (allegedly by accident) and then the police bury him in a pauper’s grave and don’t inform any relevant parties. >> These things happen. No, they really don’t. Tha…

This is definitely a tricky venue to get into, but the prestige still makes submissions worth it.

Venezuela’s (relatively sudden) refusal to honor its treaty obligations that admit the land is owned by Guyana is obviously due to oil greed. Guyana has almost no military, but the…

Yes, they are considered not safe for work.

It's free electricity, but a computing device still makes for a pricey space heater.

Presumably an online pre-print.

>> you’ve never heard of I suspect most Americans with a passing interest in nuclear deterrence have heard of this. Moreover, the article is almost entirely about the sentinel land…

It depends on your perspective. I would argue that the space race was fundamentally about two superpowers racing to develop the ability to accurately deliver munitions anywhere via…

Sort of a narrow definition to call an intercept in space a battle but not to think of the typical deployment of ballistic missiles as a type of space battle. Still a major step fo…