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The Soviet Union had a pretty impressive constitution too. The usual problem was respecting it. You need an independent constitutional court with actual teeth for any constitution …

Connect the AI to a fully automated lab and it may be able to generate and harvest those necessary data. It may also produce Supercovid in the process, so... We don't have to worry…

On a purely Machiavellistic level, coups with an inside element helping along (and that is what Venezuela was: Delcy Rodriguez going full Judas on Maduro) are a distinct phenomenon…

The point is that before the era of modern weapons, many wars were a net positive for the winners. Much of our genome is inherited from successful conquerors, many of whom are long…

This works in smaller countries as well, though. I would expect that our local tycoons know half of the Parliament and most of the ministers. And given that there is fewer very ric…

Isn't this partly a question of sheer size of countries like the US and India? In Slovenia or Denmark, there may be two degrees of separation fewer between the regular voter and, s…

We moved into a new house in November 2022 and bought all lights anew. LEDs all around, some 25 devices taken all together. 44 months later, all of them are still working.

I was mistaken, Merlins can indeed throttle down. Thanks for correction. What they cannot is achieve thrust-to-weight ratio of When it comes to failed returns, I think that at leas…

Falcon 9 engines (Merlins) cannot throttle down, they either run on max power or they don't. Which means that any attempts to land are incredibly risky. You have to reignite them a…

Symbian OS was a microkernel. For each functionality, you would run a "server" with determined privileges, your apps would connect as clients and make use of the functionality that…

Well, not even the Nazis managed to permanently conquer Europe, but the destruction they still wrought on the continent was enormous. Even a victorious war is destructive. I'd like…

It is ye olde reconnaisance by the tip of the bayonet. How long can you prod before someone says "ouch!" For the case of a hot war, knowing the detection and destruction capabiliti…

Well, the Nazi party was banned permanently by the Allied powers on Oct 10, 1945, so technically every member still alive became an ex-Nazi at that point. Including the leaders lat…

After reading this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-in-pakistan and this https://lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-time-i-joined-peac... I do wonder whether much of USAID…

By the time that the booster returns to the landing zone, the Flight Termination System (FTS) is AFAIK no longer active and cannot be reactivated. Which makes sense because it is a…

If I generalize a bit: sometimes conditions change enough for the system as a whole to become unviable, but the entitled part of the population still tries their utmost to keep tho…

You can't play an entire orchestra's sheet music on a single guitar either, but your playing ability still matters a lot. I would say that as of July 2026, with the right scaffoldi…

I made the decision to always talk to AI in English, in order to reduce the otherwise inevitable seep-in of AI terminology into my actual speaking and writing patterns. Czech and E…

I see "blast radii" all the time in context of refactorizations. Like, what happens if we swap library A for library B.

IIRC there are serious attempts at "vaccination plasters", which would solve the cold storage problems of classical vaccines. Some really bad infections survive in reservoirs far f…

"Why would anyone make a drug if the current prevalent treatment was as good as a functional cure?" I am not sure whether you ask for economic why, or an overall why. The overall w…

The Russian propaganda is more along the lines of "Ukraine is an illegitimate state led by Nazis and drug junkies, they steal children's organs and sell them to the West, cook up d…

If every parochial peasant could recognize Russian official propaganda, why are so many people on board with whatever the propaganda says? I mean, it took longer than the Great Pat…

Yes, Trump is quite an outlier in his non-standard behavior, I agree on that. That said, Americans still enjoy very robust protections of freedom of speech and association, about t…

I remember peak wokeness quite well and it was pretty obvious that it was driven by the Twitter activist mob and not the Biden administration, which was quite visibly behind the ti…